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This blog spotlights a section of the 2021 Security Technology Sprawl Report.
Security tool sprawl is a growing problem. Security team members and business leaders often turn to new tools to solve their nagging security problems, but an increase in tools can also mean an exponential increase in complexity.
According to our 2021 Security Technology Sprawl Report, security professionals add an average of 6 security tools every 12 months, and 85% of respondents say that the rate of adding new tools far outstrips their capacity to use them.
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“The growing sprawl of security tools, each addressing a different security challenge, continues to get worse year after year,” says Bob Bragdon, SVP/managing director of CSO worldwide at IDG.
And overworked staff isn’t the only danger of tech sprawl: it can also affect your bottom line and even expose your business to further risk.
There is good news in all this, though: you can remediate these issues and unlock the efficiency you were hoping for with those new tools in the first place. Below, we’ll show you how.
Building expertise in a single tool takes time and effort. As you expand your tool count, the effort doesn’t just scale linearly—not only does your team have to master the new tool, but they must make sure it’s properly integrated with your system and your other tools.
If your team is spending their time learning these new tools, they may not have the capacity to handle real threats when they inevitably arise. 71% of respondents said they spend so much time managing tools that it impedes their ability to effectively defend against threats.
There’s budget to consider, too. If you’re spending your budget on 6 new tools a year, that’s less money you can contribute to other security projects.
Not every tool was built to integrate with every other tool. Making them all work together and speak the same language is a gargantuan task, but if your tools aren’t integrated properly, you will have some very large visibility and metrics gaps, making it impossible to measure what’s working well or not working well or to get an accurate sense of your current security posture.
“If the system is too large and complex, it will inevitably lead to security loopholes. If the malicious code is not found and repaired in time, the data may be damaged, lost, or tampered with maliciously, causing great losses.” — Survey respondent
Ok, we made it sound pretty bad. But here’s the good news: these problems are addressable. ReliaQuest CTO Joe Partlow outlines 6 steps you can take:
Make a clear assessment of the risks to a particular business. This includes defining the outcomes you want to see and the metrics you want to measure.
Once you define the business needs, then you can determine whether you already have the tools that will give you visibility into and protect against threats. If it turns out you’re missing the necessary tools or your organization has purchased the wrong ones, then you can rebalance your security portfolio from a knowledgeable position.
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With a clear risk assessment that considers business needs in hand, Partlow suggests asking three critical questions:
Depending on the size of your organization, Partlow suggests setting a regular schedule for reevaluating your strategy and tactics. This could be as frequently as once a month or just 2 to 3 times a year.
The resource and skills shortage problem is not going away soon, and enterprises have to consider ways to force-multiply their existing teams so they can focus on critical objectives.
Last, but not least, security teams should focus on the metrics that help illustrate the value and ROI of both specific tools and their overall security approach.
Security tool sprawl is a problem just about every organization faces. As long as you go into each purchase with clear knowledge of your current stack, defined goals for new tools, and a solid implementation plan, you can realize that ROI you’ve been dreaming of.
When companies use ReliaQuest GreyMatter Open XDR-as-a-Service and its Universal Translator technology to unify their security tools, they reduce their TCO by as much as 35%.