Automated security needs human oversight – but many companies struggle with the balance

Buying good threat-hunting technology isn’t enough to lure the best security staff anymore, a security specialist has said while warning that cybersecurity’s “incredibly difficult” human capital problem has left many companies flat-footed when it comes to launching their security response. Attackers were leaning heavily on automation to compromise targets “but once they compromise an endpoint they are being really slow” to propagate across the network undetected and compromise backups that might be used for recovery, JJ Thompson, senior director of managed threat response, told CSO Australia.

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