The report details how the COVID-19 pandemic and distributed IT environments intensified cybersecurity challenges, driving 96% of organizations to increase security budgets in 2020 and 91% to plan further increases in 2021. Despite this, 78% of IT leaders lacked confidence in their security posture due to limited resources, skill shortages, and legacy systems. Many focused on immediate fixes like MFA and endpoint security while long-term projects such as Zero Trust and SASE lagged. Only 57% conducted risk assessments. Moving forward, organizations aim to modernize operations, expand security teams, and seek third-party expertise to strengthen resilience and governance.

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