IT has always added value through automation, but its penetration into security practices historically has been lower than in other functional areas. For example, in the just-released Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2018, only 35% of respondents said that “Our company is committed to security automation and actively investing in solutions,” even as the survey revealed that a fundamental aspect of protecting the cloud-enabled workplace is the challenge of keeping pace at scale.
Automation should be an essential part of the IT toolkit, enabling organizations to massively scale and remove effort, but it currently isn’t widely adopted in most enterprises. To attack this problem, it’s important to understand automation’s barriers to adoption and how they can be overcome.
