Security News > 2020 > January > Are Overlapping Security Tools Adversely Impacting Your Security Posture?
In early December, Tampa FL-based security services firm ReliaQuest, released a separate report discussing the effect of this tendency to purchase individual stand-alone tools to solve newly discovered issues.
Problems include more tools than company capacity to productively use them, and a burden of maintenance forcing security teams to spend more time managing the tools than defending against threats.
Fifty-three percent of the respondent "Say their security team has reached a tipping point where the excessive number of security tools in place adversely impacts security posture."
Overlapping security is a waste of budget and human resources while adding nothing to security.
"Maybe I should get rid of both and go to market to find a solution that meets 75% of my requirements; and then go buy a niche product that gives me the other 25%. It's not just a case of deciding which of these tools I throw out, it may be a decision that I go back to the drawing board and push both those tools out and get a new tool that meets a larger total percentage of my needs."