Cyberattacks continue to grow in quantity and sophistication at the same time that organizations’ systems become increasingly complex. Security teams, as always, feel the stress. But a surprising outcome of our 2023 State of Security research is that the number of respondents who say they just can’t keep up has shrunk.

Don’t plan a victory parade just yet; 53% of respondents worldwide tell us that keeping up with security requirements is harder than it was two years ago, and that’s still a lot. But the number in 2022 was 66%. Our own security experts, able to spot the dark lining in every silver cloud, note that 2022 didn’t have as many novel developments to throw security teams into disarray; no SolarWinds, no Log4J. “No iceberg for your organizational Titanic,” to quote them directly.