A recent study, the IBM Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) survey, which surveyed 150 people from various sized organisations globally, showed senior executives are paying more attention to security in their organisations.

Two out of three respondents said they are spending more and increasing budgets within their organisations' security platforms. It also showed that mobile security is the top security issue that respondents had to contend with.

"But attempting to protect the perimeter is not enough. The idea and the concept around this entire complex puzzle are to build a level of capability in and around intelligence -- or analytics around the security data itself," he said.

IBM security services threat research and intelligence principal, Michael Montecillo, said it is not how good a company is in security within one specific silo, but rather, how well it has applied the security comprehensively throughout the organisation.

Montecillo focused on a threat report that the company recently published, which showed advanced persistent threats tend to be the most difficult and sophisticated threats currently seen.