Tool Sprawl – The Cybersecurity Challenge of 2021

Solutions Review | December 14, 2020

It’s not news that the pace of change in IT is extremely fast. What’s less well-known is the downside — tool sprawl. IT teams innovate at a breakneck pace, picking up whatever innovations suit their immediate needs. Security, in contrast, must protect the old applications that are still around, plus the new ones, plus the different platforms those new applications are built on. It creates a juggling challenge – how many different technologies can your security team juggle at once? If you have too many, how do you decide which are most important and which you must drop?