WHAT SUCKS IN SECURITY? RESEARCH FINDINGS FROM 50+ SECURITY LEADERS

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In this article, Maya Kaczorowski distills lessons from interviews from 57 security leaders and discovers that the top three pain points in security are access management (overwhelmed by access request tickets), vulnerability management (struggling with too many vulnerabilities to patch), and SaaS logs (difficulty accessing and analyzing logs during incidents). Beyond technical issues, cultural complications like vendor sprawl, unclear ownership of assets, and challenges in communicating security risks make these problems even more difficult to address. While there's excitement about AI improving security tooling, many core security challenges remain fundamentally unchanged, with few true breakthrough innovations that have eliminated entire classes of security issues.