Too Many Cybersecurity Tools: How To Declutter Through Platformization
For enterprises eager to consolidate their tools, success will take the form of "platformization" of enterprise security stacks.
For enterprises eager to consolidate their tools, success will take the form of "platformization" of enterprise security stacks.
Traditional security tools were designed when code changes were measured in hundreds of lines per sprint and development cycles lasted weeks. Today, AI accelerates code production to thousands of lines daily with fundamentally different patterns than human-written code.
Anthropic's disclosure lacked important elements, which explains the professional criticism that erupted despite the potmortem's potential significance. And while the post is marketing for Anthropic, it also provides strategic threat context for security executives.
Security challenges aren’t usually about tools—they’re about people, alignment, and the unseen friction that builds when roles, workflows, and reality drift apart.
2026 will bring CISOs and security professionals potential AI breaches, tight infrastructure regulation, a new European Union vulnerability database, quantum security growth, and merger and acquisition shifts.
Doing less can deliver more. Scope reduction reduces risk, simplifies compliance, and makes regulated opportunities attainable for any organization willing to focus on what really matters.
Security Posture Management (SPM) is transforming how organizations secure data, infrastructure, and applications. Learn how cloud and APIs have evolved from security risks into modern SPM enablers.
In a potential hot conflict over Taiwan sovereignty, cyber operations would be at the forefront, and aimed at slowing the U.S. military response, targeting military logistics systems, cloud-based sustainment platforms, naval communications, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems.
The SaaS Security Capability Framework, released by the CSA's SaaS Working Group provides an industry-standard set of baselines, customer-facing security controls for SaaS platforms.
For enterprise security teams already struggling with SaaS sprawl and third-party risk management, the Drift breach is a reminder that OAuth tokens—designed to enhance security by eliminating password sharing—are high-value targets.
Most, eventually all, CISOs will be forced to endure the loss of a cherished vendor and promising roadmap due to an acquisition.
It’s their necessity for such accessibility that makes secure configuration especially challenging—and when a zero-day vulnerability emerges, the damage can be swift.
Here's what will surprise you: despite massive digital expansion, breach risk isn't uniformly climbing for all organizations. In fact, there are dramatic variations that challenge everything we thought we knew about cyber risk.