At most enterprise organizations, cybersecurity infrastructure grew organically over time. The security team implemented each security control in response to a particular threat – antivirus software appeared on desktops, gateways were added to the network, sandboxes were deployed to detect malicious files, etc.
As the security infrastructure grew over the past 10 or 15 years, most enterprises didn’t really have a security technology architecture or strategy at all. And this lack of a cohesive security technology strategy has transcended into real problems.
