Security manufacturers increasingly refer to their solutions as a platform, with the vague implication that this gives their technology a distinct advantage. The challenge, of course, is that the term platform is rather ambiguous. It simply refers to the environment in which a piece of software is executed. It can refer to the hardware it is installed on, the operating system (OS) that runs it, or even a web browser loaded with specific APIs to execute the program code. As a result, the term often isn’t really all that useful when you are shopping for a security solution.
However, a carefully crafted platform can provide distinct advantages for deploying, managing, and running security solutions. So, like other terms that are often overused by marketing teams – such as “cloud-ready” or even “artificial intelligence” – we need to get specific about what we mean by the term platform if it is to be of any value. The trick is to establish a uniform definition against which you can judge the merits of any solution claiming to be a platform.
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