11 months ago

In the current macroeconomic climate, many organizations are looking to consolidate and work with a smaller number of vendors. The fewer individual vendors a company has to deal with, the easier it is to manage purchasing, get legal clearances, request support and so on.

The reason is simple: Even when you consolidate vendors, you may not consolidate tools.

As business folks push for vendor consolidation, cybersecurity practitioners are left to wonder what vendor consolidation actually means for them, or how it can improve security outcomes.

To start, let’s consider why organizations prefer to consolidate cybersecurity tool vendors.