Businesses are embracing digital transformation to navigate the challenges of economic uncertainty, leveraging new technologies to improve productivity and speed to market. While these new technologies offer efficiencies over legacy systems, they may also introduce new attack vectors and vulnerabilities that increase business risk. Meanwhile, cybercriminals remain persistent in their efforts to compromise defenses, wreak havoc, and steal valuable data. 

As a result, security requirements continue to expand each year, straining budgets and overtaxing IT organizations. Yet the importance of a strong cybersecurity practice is widely underestimated. Numerous high-profile data breaches and ransomware attacks have driven a propensity to view the topic through a narrow lens, including a hyperfixation on the avoidance a few specific negative outcomes. Unfortunately, this approach provides an incomplete picture of the value of cybersecurity in the modern era of digital business. 

IDC interviewed organizations using Zscaler Data Protection to understand its impact on their efforts to minimize risk related to data loss and other security events across their hybrid IT environments. Study participants linked their use of Zscaler Data Protection to an improved ability to proactively identify and resolve security-related risks in terms of both business outcomes and operational efficiencies.