Large organizations built their security infrastructure organically over time, adding new tools as countermeasures to emerging threats. Unfortunately, this created a messy situation where security must be monitored and managed on a tool-by-tool basis. CISOs have had enough—ESG research indicates that they are consolidating vendors and integrating tools into more cohesive technology architectures. These strategic changes will impact the way security technologies are purchased and sold in the future, which will have a downstream impact on the entire security technology industry.
