Moving from Cybersecurity Point Solutions

As more and more businesses and organizations undergo digital transformation to stay competitive and meet constituent needs, technology teams are under pressure to deliver a greater number of capabilities, often through the implementation of point solutions: single tools created to address single requirements. Cybersecurity has its own world of point solutions – often referred to by acronym and built to stave off specific types of threats. While the method of going best of breed might seem like an obvious path, it carries with it hidden overhead costs. It takes time to train staff on specific features, it takes resources to keep solutions maintained and upgraded, issues arise with data consistency, costs are exacerbated for IT/cybersecurity training, and so on.

Such point solutions can certainly be valuable if, and only if, there’s a sound justification for using them and a lack of existing capability. This might seem obvious at first – we get a tool because we need it to solve a problem, right? I buy a snowblower if I’m a homeowner in an area with severe winters, but I wouldn’t bring it with me to a holiday home in Southern Spain. (If only I had one!)

If you look at your buying habits in general, you’ll realize that rational decisions don’t always drive your purchases. In fact, right now you might have a closet full of tools you bought but only used once, a couple that you thought you might need but never used, ones that didn’t quite work for what you needed but that you hung on to just in case, ones you’ve completely forgotten about and so on.

The same phenomenon exists with businesses that implement digital point solutions piecemeal – though when it comes to enterprise tech, there are many more downsides than just the sunk cost of a drill press collecting cobwebs in your garage.

By taking a look at the hazards of this approach, we can see exactly why it’s not just better, but necessary, to build out smart platform architecture rather than pursuing a seat-of-the-pants strategy that collects point solutions a la carte.
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