Cybersecurity, with its six syllables, is by no means a small word. But perhaps we can forgive it for being a mouthful, since it encompasses a very wide range of arcane disciplines. Modern businesses need to manage myriad cybersecurity best practices, ranging from cloud, information and network security to the endpoint protection of each device and application. Each practice requires different tools and skill sets, leading to an overall complexity that is very unwieldy to control. An IBM & Palo Alto Networks report estimates that “organizations juggle an average of 83 different security solutions from 29 vendors.” The report, which analyzed 1,000 organizations and executives, found that current security approaches were thought to be ineffective. Roughly 80% of executives “face pressure to reduce the cost of security,” even in the face of new threats. Nearly as many said their security operator workload was excessive. More than half the respondents reported that fragmentation of security solutions was limiting their ability to deal with threats.

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