Potential risks in security automation 2021 | Statista

According to a 2021 global security automation survey, dependency on other IT operations processes and tools that impedes key processes was the leading potential automation risks, with 49 percent of respondents reporting concerns for these.

What do you perceive as potential risks in security automation?

Characteristic	2020	2021
Dependency on other IT operations processes and tools that can impede key processes	50%	48.9%
Lack of internal skills needed to implement A&I not envisioned by tool vendors	42.9%	48%
Lack of openness or access to data from vendor-supplied tools	33.3%	47.7%
Overall market direction and related impacts that can affect investment in automation tools and technologies	12.5%	43.3%
Limited capability of current tools for integration	33.3%	29.3%
Interdepartmental politics	40.5%	23.7%
Competing tools within your environment	22%	16.8%
Budget constraints	38.7%	13.1%
Resource constraints	50%	13.1%
Lack of integration standards across tools (e.g., ability to interface systems, correlate data)	39.3%	-
Other	4.2%	-

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August 2021

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

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security professionals

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