According to the new global report, the cybersecurity skills shortage continues to pose numerous challenges and ramifications for organizations, including the occurrence of security breaches and subsequent financial loss.

Despite the fact that 68 percent of respondents have increased their budgets and staff, they continue to face mounting threats from an expanding threatscape that they are unable to address.

Tenable Holdings, Inc., the Cyber Exposure firm has agreed to acquire Cymptom, a specialist in attack path management, said a company statement. The details of the transaction are not disclosed yet.

“The best way to ensure protection is from within, and the greatest defence comes from having an informed workforce,” states Ned Baltagi, Managing Director, Middle East and Africa at SANS Institute.

In the report, the ESET PROTECT Enterprise bundle (version 8.1) was tested, which comprises the ESET PROTECT management console, ESET Endpoint Security, ESET Enterprise Inspector, and ESET Dynamic Threat Defense.