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Tool Selection Resources
Webcasts
Beyond the Buzzwords: Choosing Essential Tools for Your Security Stack
The cybersecurity landscape is constantly evolving, and CISOs are inundated with new tools and technologies, each promising to be the ultimate solution.
Building a Resilient Security Stack: Balancing Innovation and Practicality
Innovation is key to staying ahead in cybersecurity, but sometimes chasing the ‘next big thing’ doesn’t lead you to the right destination.
Resources
Strategic Selection and Optimization of Security Tool Stacks: A one-page guide
By carefully evaluating existing tools, leveraging diverse perspectives, and maintaining a balance between automation and…
Ten Tips for Tool Stack Optimization
Optimizing your cybersecurity tool stack can often be a daunting exercise fraught with vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and too much or…
Checklist: Security Tool Stack Selection
This checklist can help security teams take the best possible path to tool selection and optimization for their organizations.
Trying to tackle tool sprawl? Consolidate at the data source
Sprawl of all types has become a constant, growing problem in enterprises – code sprawl, vendor sprawl, cloud sprawl, and attack surface sprawl. They aren’t just plaguing IT…
CISO STORIES PODCASTVIEW PAST EPISODES
Security Program Controls/Technologies
How important is your relationship with your tool vendors? – Jacob Lorz – CSP #198
Security Program Controls/Technologies
What level of tool rationalization does your company do and why? – LaLisha Hurt – CSP #197
Security Program Controls/Technologies
Have you considered your team’s cognitive biases when selecting tools? – Dustin Sachs – CSP #196
Tokyo DriftSec: Who is going First? Who is going Smooth? – Lisa Landau – CSP #195
What are your pet peeves when it comes to tool selection? – Timothy Ball – CSP #194
