
42% had a firewall fail due to network-layer Denial of Service (DoS) traffic load in the past 12 months

36% of which failed in application-level DoS attacks.

38% of respondents reported that traditional safeguards understand traffic context and protect against complex, blended threats less than “somewhat well.”

31% of organizations lost revenue as a result of cyberattacks.

43% lost data as a result of traditional security failings.

50% of organizations lost productivity as a result of attacks.

The average organization reported losses $682,000 due to failure to stem those sorts of attacks.

Half of respondents believe that ADCs can replace many or most traditional safeguards.

One-third of respondents already using ADCs for security.

49% of organizations are in trials or already implementing ADCs for traffic inspection-based security.

43% are in trials or implementing for access control capabilities.

44% are in trials or implementing for application security capabilities afforded by ADCs.