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A CISO argues consolidation fails unless old security tools and their privileged identities are actually decommissioned.
A CSO Online opinion argues that security-tool consolidation routinely fails because organizations buy a new platform without decommissioning the tools it was meant to replace. The author, drawing on experience at CME Group, says success depends on engineering managers and other middle leaders, not only executive mandates. Each added product also creates privileged machine identities, tokens, integrations, and increasingly autonomous agents exercising delegated authority. The piece treats deliberate decommissioning, not vendor platformization alone, as the discipline that actually reduces sprawl.
- Buying a platform without retiring old tools increases sprawl.
- Middle managers decide whether consolidation policies are actually followed.
- Each security tool adds privileged machine identities and delegated access.
- Decommissioning should be a core security lifecycle discipline.
- Organizations
- CME GroupGartnerRSA Conference
From the original article
7 min read at csoonline.com
There’s an old leadership fantasy that goes something like this: The CISO surveys a sprawling technology estate, discovers 11 tools doing the work of four, calculates the licensing savings, selects a shiny new strategic platform and declares that consolidation has begun. Six months later, all 11 tools are still running. The new platform is now number 12.
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