Abstract  

Finding success in cybersecurity isn’t easy. That’s why we embarked on a journey to identify factors that are measurably improving the chances of achieving successful outcomes for organizations around the world. Through an independent research firm, we collected data about 25 organizational security practices and 11 program-level outcomes from over 4,800 IT and security professionals. We published what we learned from analyzing that data in the Security Outcomes Study. One of the things readers told us they appreciated about the Security Outcomes Study is that it’s not a marketing document. It’s based on rigorous, independent analysis and completely devoid of mentions of Cisco products. At the same time, we’ve fielded questions from customers along the lines of “How does [insert security product] line up with the practices and outcomes from this study?” We appreciate the interest, and thought that a recent expansion of Cisco Secure Endpoint offered an excellent opportunity to explore this question.