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Gartner calls for rebalancing security budgets: invest more in detection vs. prevention
In his talk last week at the 2014 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit,
Gartner Analyst Neil McDonald said that when targeted attacks are considered,
traditional technologies like firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention
systems (IDS/IPS) and anti-malware tools fail in detection. That is because it's
hard to use them to detect attacks that nobody has seen before, hence have no
known signature.
Based on Gartner's security infrastructure model, McDonald points out that
companies are s