The security industry has a long history of innovation and stewardship in technology. However, every time there is a new security problem, a new product arrives on the market to address that specific issue. While these products can be good, they have led to an over-proliferation of point products that don’t completely solve customer needs. They also add costs and complexity.
Moreover, with an ever-increasing number of remote and frontline workers, and more workloads distributed across public clouds and private datacenters, tool and vendor sprawl are getting worse.
To say tool proliferation is a challenge is an understatement. In 2020, enterprise customers on average used 76 security tools. Unsurprisingly, according to Gartner, 75% of organizations are looking to consolidate vendors. That is a jump of 29% in just three years […]