Today, chief information security officers (CISOs) are in a constant battle with hackers, playing a game of whack-a-mole as vulnerabilities continue to emerge while security teams address them to prevent exploitation by attackers. The traditional approach to security has been a layered approach, using multiple security tools to minimize risk and avoid a single point of failure.
However, this has resulted in many enterprises stockpiling numerous cybersecurity tools, with an average large firm using around 75 different security tools on their network. These different security tools from various vendors create unneeded complexity.
The tools are often not designed to work together, resulting in a lack of communication and integration among them. While these tools may excel at their individual tasks, they fail to operate as a cohesive unit, generating excessive noise that can serve as a smokescreen for criminal activity. The addition of more security tools can also inadvertently decrease the security of data because of simple configuration errors and gaps in network defenses that are challenging to detect. These vulnerabilities are exactly what cybercriminals seek to exploit to gain…
