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HOW DO I REDUCE SECURITY TOOL SPRAWL IN MY ENVIRONMENT?

When it comes to tool consolidation, focus on platforms over products.
Yotam Segev
Co-Founder and CEO, Cyera
June 01, 2023
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Question: We have too many security tools. How do I consolidate and reduce tool
sprawl in my environment?



Yotam Segev, Co-Founder and CEO, Cyera: Security teams are dealing with too many
alerts coming out of too many tools. They can’t reduce risk because the alerts
lack context, such as 78their severity and potential impact. Alerts without
context are largely meaningless. Many security professionals complain about
feeling as if they are running at full speed but not making any progress.

To security teams, tool consolidation is an opportunity to be more efficient and
effective. It also appeals to C-suite executives because it means working with
fewer vendors and eliminating hardware, licensing, maintenance, and support
costs.




3 KEYS TO TOOL CONSOLIDATION

Tool sprawl exists because IT has changed so quickly and dramatically. Many of
these tools were created for another era — the precloud days when enterprises
relied on the moat-and-castle architecture for defense — which means security
teams are using one set of tools for securing on-premises systems and another
for the cloud. Here's how to remediate that.




1. TAKE INVENTORY AND SEEK ALIGNMENT

Take an inventory of all the tools the security team is using. Poll the team and
make them part of this process. Get an understanding of what is being used, what
is being pushed aside, what they can live without, and what they can't.

A recent Verizon report found that security teams use between 55 and 75 security
products or applications total, on average. All these tools mean dozens of
management consoles, onboarding and training programs, and employee upskilling
requirements. Things get more complicated depending on where the tools are
deployed — on-premises or cloud — and what permissions are used.

Involving the team is important because it shows that you are addressing an
issue that is important to them and impacts their day-to-day jobs. It will also
give you great insights into the tools and capabilities they rely on. Once you
understand the tool landscape in full and in practice, you will see the delta
between what is being used and what can be cut.



From here, evaluate the top use cases that the team faces and determine whether
the tools used adequately address these use cases.


2. CHOOSE CLOUD-NATIVE PLATFORMS, NOT PRODUCTS

The solution to tool sprawl is to invest in platforms that can address multiple
core use cases, from on-premises to the cloud. Tools that were built for the
cloud tend to mirror that functionality on-premises. This is the first and best
place to identify opportunities for consolidation.

For example, legacy data loss prevention (DLP) solutions are hugely expensive
and complex products that take months to deploy, configure, and train. For all
of that, they often produce too many false positives, resulting in noisy
alerting mechanisms that create friction within the business. Cloud DLP exists,
but it creates new data silos, making securing data challenging. A platform
solution, however, can provide DLP functionality across different environments,
including cloud, containers, and virtual machines.


3. AUTOMATE

Platforms that were built for the cloud are designed to enable automation of
tasks that used to be done manually, such as inventory and classification of
assets, devices, data, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) partners. Most
cloud-native solutions will automate this across multiple environments,
including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), SaaS, and platform-as-a-service
(PaaS), as well as on-premises.


DECLUTTER YOUR NETWORK

Cybersecurity exposures and risks associated with cloud workloads are inherently
different from those of legacy, on-prem infrastructure. Employing too many tools
can leave security teams ill-equipped to quantify, understand, or mitigate the
exposure of sprawling cloud environments. A cloud-native security stack enables
tool consolidation and broad automation, both of which are most welcome
developments for your teams.

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