Security Staffing Low in Midsized and Large Orgs

One of the greatest security challenges for midsized to large organizations is a function of staffing, according to research conducted by Osterman Research on behalf of ProtectWise and published in The Evolving State of Network Security. Surveying 400 security analysts at companies with more than 1,000 employees, Osterman Research found that the number of security staff is not commensurate with the number of employees. On average, large organizations have only one security staff member for every 1,488 employees and smaller companies have only one security staff for every 189 employees. To put that into context: The mean number of employees at the large organizations surveyed was nearly 26,000, with 17.5 of them being security personnel. The mean number of employees for midsized companies surveyed was 2,510, which translates to 13.3 security personnel.