Eliminating the Costly Chaos of Disparate Cybersecurity Solutions
Sophisticated cybercriminals flourish amid chaos. Unfortunately, in the very effort of trying to mitigate security threats, many organizations adopt an overly complex and chaotic approach that plays to their adversaries’ strengths.
Compounding the security landscape is a rapidly expanding perimeter due to increased remote work migration and cloud computing. This adds to the mix an elevated shadow IT factor, with apps, devices, and services proliferating without the knowledge or approval of IT departments. Security teams can’t protect what they can’t see.
Is your cybersecurity infrastructure a ‘dog’s breakfast’ of disconnected solutions?
A bit of British slang, a ‘dog’s breakfast’ is a phrase used to describe a disorderly situation, a confused mixture, or a jumbled mess. When organizations piece together different and disparate solutions to handle asset inventory, threat management, identity access management, SIEM, and all the other products, it often results in chaos. The results can be misconfigured workloads, incongruent policies, different product dashboards to toggle between, and a barrage of false-positive alerts that lead to talent burnout and elevated security risk. Trying to manage cybersecurity operations in a patchwork that creates multiple data silos will not provide the crucial real-time visibility required to detect and mitigate.
Too many tools in the kitchen and not enough cooks
The problematic shortage of talent with the right cybersecurity skills is an ongoing issue. As organizations throw more tools into the security stew, the management complexity grows. There aren’t enough skilled workers to effectively manage all the security ingredients to arrive at comprehensive and cohesive threat detection, analysis, and coverage. Security product sprawl creates data silos that create a heightened threat risk, as well as:
- Lost productivity
- Data duplication
- Inefficiencies, decreased visibility, and undetected anomalies
- Elevated TCO
The push for consolidation and integration continues to gain momentum as security teams seek to alleviate the skills gap by achieving more simplicity and efficiency to expedite operations. Seamless security infrastructure integration enables organizations to derive more value from existing talent, products, and programs.
Contextualized and central command and control through a single platform interface
The antidote for a chaotic and disconnected security approach is to connect all data and system workloads via a single, centralized management platform. With a single-pane-of-glass through which security analysts attain a 360-degree view of all alerts and activities, logs and alerts gain contextual meaning and visibility for an actionable response.
A unified security platform enables:
- Comprehensive, automated monitoring for increased productivity and efficiency
- One authoritative set of data
- A 360-degree view
- Faster mitigation
- Reduced costs by merging all workflows into a single solution
Mandates that overcome chaos
To diffuse the chaos that keeps cybercriminals thriving, organizations should re-evaluate their security stack and eliminate the silos that perpetuate their vulnerability. Secure endpoint and identity access management, automation, centralized control, and zero trust are mandates that must be vigorously applied. To accomplish this requires unified integration, not complexity and fragmentation.
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