“The existing tools enterprises have had have become insufficient because of the increased attack surface that has come from the migration of more IT functions to the cloud,” Robinson said. “Companies are faced with too many alerts so taking advantage of outsourced technologies to handle functions such as managed detection and response [MDR] suddenly starts to make a lot of sense.”

Foundry’s 2024 Security Priorities Study offers a rundown of top IT security functions CISO are outsourcing to managed service providers over the next 12 months, with threat detection and response (24%), security awareness training (23%), and security operations (23%) leading the way, followed by threat intelligence (22%), vulnerability assessment (22%), and backup and recovery (22%).

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In the survey, 82% of those quizzed said they would outsource security functions to a managed security services provider or other third-party in the next 12 months.