Here are the security automation challenges in digital adoption.
Security Automation Challenges
Security automation fails to identify remediation
The old security model of humans trying to manually secure an environment with rules and policies is being replaced. For instance, by the new model of automated security. The promise of this new model is faster, more effective, and more efficient security. There are many benefits to this new model, but there are also challenges to overcome. These challenges are collectively the “security automation challenge.”
The “Security Automation Challenge” is the set of obstacles that inhibit or prevent the adoption of automation at an enterprise level. It combines issues related to organizational resistance, cultural issues, and technical problems. Moreover, these should be overcome to implement effective enterprise-wide security automation. Thus, the challenge is not a simple problem with a single solution.
The challenge is a combination of obstacles relevant to organizational resistance, cultural issues, and technical problems. For instance, must be overcome to implement effective enterprise-wide security automation. In addition, each challenge has numerous factors that affect its prevalence within an organization. Security automation challenges force IT, teams, to overcome their prejudices and focus on the big picture – protecting the business – by embracing a culture of security automation.
Employee resistance
Policies and protocols developed over time to increase security and reduce the likelihood of security incidents. Also, these protocols and policies tend to be restrictive and can be difficult to administer and enforce.
Security automation is implemented to help reduce the burden on administrators while still maintaining a high level of security within an environment. However, employees may resist it because they become complacent when the same systems are in place for a long time; or because they feel that automation will be useful to monitor their work habits and productivity.
Organizational Resistance
Organizations may not see the value in investing in security automation, especially if they already have a strong security team in place. Similar to employee resistance, organizations may feel that if their existing methods are working, then why change?
In addition, there may be a lack of management support for a security automation program. If a business already has a strong IT or security team in place, it may be difficult to justify the cost of implementing a new tool. This can also be a challenge if the organization has recently implemented a new tool and is hesitant to implement another tool.
Costs
Implementing security automation can be expensive as it requires time and money to create and implement the tool. In addition, there may be additional costs with training staff to use the tool effectively.
If an organization already has a strong IT or security team in place, it may be difficult to justify the cost of implementing a new tool. There may also be a lack of management support for a security automation program.
Technical Challenges
If an organization has implemented an automated security tool, it is valuable to understand the technical challenges that may arise and how to address them.
Technical challenges can be into three categories:
1) Challenges related to the infrastructure required to implement and run the tool; 2) Challenges related to integrating and using the tool with other systems; and 3) Challenges related to data quality and the data used by the tool.
