ADC Security Survey

Global Key Findings

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• Applied Research (by telephone)

• September 2011

• 1,000 organizations (100/country)

• Senior IT management

• Respondents with role >50% in:• Network infrastructure (one fifth)

• Endpoints (one fifth)

• Applications (one fifth)

• Security (not compliance related) (one fifth)

• System administration (one fifth)

• APAC• Australia (2,000+ employees)

• Hong Kong (2,000+ employees)

• India (2,000+ employees)

• China (2,000+ employees)

• Japan (5,000+ employees)

• EMEA• Spain (2,000+ employees)

• France (2,000+ employees)

• Germany (2,000+ employees)

• UK (5,000+ employees)

• North America• United States (5,000+ employees)

Methodology

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Key Findings Summary

• Attacks Getting More Difficult to Defend

• Attacks Driving High Costs to Organizations

• Traditional Safeguards Falling Short

• IT Sees Role for ADCs for Security

• Adopting of ADCs for Security is Growing

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Attacks Getting More Difficult to Defend

• Most frequent are most difficult to defend AND highest impact:

The ‘cyber attack index’ is comprised of frequency, difficulty to protect against, and impact on organization, as reported by the respondents

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Attacks Driving High Costs to Organizations

• 100% of organizations saw losses from cyber attacks

• Typical cost: $682,000 in past 12 months

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Traditional Safeguards Falling Short

• 42% had a firewall fail due to network-layer DoS traffic load

• 36% had a firewall fail due to app-layer DoS traffic load

• 38% say safeguards understand traffic context less than ‘somewhat well’

• 36% say safeguards protect against complex, blended threats less than ‘somewhat well’

• 53% say network performance impact from safeguard ‘somewhat’ to ‘extremely challenging’

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IT Sees Role for ADCs for Security

• Only 1 in 12 say traditional safeguards suffice

• Half say ADCs can replace many or most traditional safeguards

• 92% see specific roles

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Adopting of ADCs for Security is Growing

• One third to one half are already using ADCs for security

• Nearly 100% are discussing

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Recommendations

• Build a unified framework

• Make sure your safeguards understand context

• Employ safeguards that are extensible and adaptable

• Lean on your peers

• Make sure your security infrastructure can scale

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