After many years of a strong preference for ‘best of breed’ security tools, the tides are turning. There’s growing fatigue of the operational downsides – managing countless alerts and manually correlating threats, for example – inherent in this approach. Security products today need to include out-of-box integrations, interoperate with third–party solutions, share threat and contextual information, leverage automation, and above all else, simplify operations. This trend has a name: the security platform.
Products like firewalls have historically been evaluated primarily on their merits as a standalone solution. This was logical since the firewall had always been viewed as a fundamental component of any organization’s security posture.
