Welcome to blog #six as I explore the “Top 10 List of the Challenges Cybersecurity Professionals Face,” as found in our Cybersecurity Insights Report 2022: The State of Cyber Resilience.
In the last blog, I wrote about the challenges that organizations have with disparate tools, highlighted by the fact that mature enterprise organizations deployed over 130 security tools on average. That blog is a perfect introduction to number five on our list of challenges enterprise organizations face: ‘Solutions not customized to the types of risks we face.’
More Tools, More Problems
Most security teams use several security management tools to help them manage their security infrastructure. While each tool was acquired for a specific reason and purpose, introducing each tool into an existing security tech stack poses a different challenge. Unfortunately, there’s no one size fits all approach.
Every new security tool introduced requires integration to use the tool effectively. It takes a lot of time and effort to implement a tool properly into your environment and processes. There would most likely need training involved for those analysts who would be using the new tools. While necessary, these tasks take time and attention away from everyday activities and can significantly decrease a security team’s effectiveness before they’re fully integrated into their workflow.
Increasing in Multiple Tools Increases Security Complexity
The increasing adoption of cybersecurity solutions has created more consequences and challenges for organizations and their IT teams. With each addition of a new solution, another problem emerges Tool sprawl. Tool sprawl is ..
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