Most network security professionals have three primary security pain points or goals.
Protecting critical and private data against theft, preventing data loss and corruption, and defending against directed attackers, who are more of a threat than mass attacks.
Meeting compliance requirements, with increasing regulation at State and Federal levels, to prevent regulation driven fines and brand damage.
Maintaining business operations, so attacks do not disrupt network uptime and business operations. Chasing the problem frequent patching is extremely time and resource intensive, and disruptive to normal business operations.
Simplified to its basic elements, network security professionals want to increase security, while simplifying security infrastructure, and reducing total their costs operational security costs.