Know your gear
In a recent Network Management Megatrends study exploring NetSecOps convergence, it was revealed the 91% of enterprises had evolved their IT organizations to have at least some formal collaboration between their network and security groups, with at least 40% of them fully converged and sharing tools and processes. It also identified that 35% of the respondents were enabling collaboration by integrating the toolsets of network and security teams, with 16% overall having deployed actual tools that both the network and security teams shared. That said, 84% of network and security teams reported they lacked a shared data store that was consistent, current, and relevant to the task of collaboration.