CISO Edge, The Gartner Cybersecurity Podcast

Can Vendor Consolidation and Defense in Depth Coexist?

Episode Summary

Are we destined for a future of painful trade-offs between efficiency and effectiveness from cybersecurity technology, or can CISOs have it all? On today’s CISO Edge, we explore the case for vendor consolidation and the steps CISOs need to take to capture the benefits and navigate the risks.

Episode Notes

Join Gartner experts Chris Mixter and Peter Firstbrook as they debunk the myths about vendor consolidation and provide CISOs with practical guidance on navigating this sea change in how cybersecurity technology is sold and operated. 

• Does vendor consolidation contravene defense in depth? (05:34)
• Take a data-centric perspective to evaluate consolidation opportunities. (12:09) 
• Questions for CISOs ask cybersecurity technology vendors about their pivot to platform-centric architectures. (21:29) 
• Questions for CISOs to ask themselves about their cybersecurity talent in the platform era. (27:29)
  
   

Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst Peter Firstbrook utilizes his 25+ years of experience as an industry analyst to help clients improve their security posture to defend and respond to malicious attacks. Peter is responsible for endpoint protection platform (EPP), endpoint detection, and remediation (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR) markets, as well as topics such as security vendor consolidation, workspace security and generative AI security.