Managing your Product and Vendor Portfolio

The third core strategy that we will be reviewing is your product and vendor cybersecurity portfolio. In the What is Your Architecture Strategy? section, we reviewed the broad strategy of consolidating technologies at the organization level. The same applies to your cybersecurity portfolio. We will look at how to best manage your overall cybersecurity portfolio in a world where risk continues to grow. In the past, we needed to onboard one vendor after another to ensure your cybersecurity portfolio had no gaps. This, in some respects, has turned into an environment that has become unmanageable with increased risk within our organizations.

As technology has continued to evolve, you have most likely found the same capabilities being provided by multiple vendors. You need to evaluate your cybersecurity portfolio to optimize it to improve efficiency. Some of the reasons for and benefits of strategizing around your cybersecurity portfolio include...