To state the obvious, there is no such thing as a perfect cybersecurity product.  While there are many great products security pros use daily to keep their organizations secure, every one of them has things about them that could be better. However, as security stacks get increasingly complex, all these  “less than ideal”  items taken together can result in a daily nightmare. The key for security team leaders is to realize when the pain the security stack is inflicting is more than the team can handle. We have over  7,000 customers using our Open XDR SecOps Platform . When talking with our customers, they often discuss how they could eliminate redundant, less valuable products from their security stack due mainly to the  number of capabilities built into our platform . I heard three frustrations repeatedly in those conversations, which gave me the idea to write this blog. Here are three tell-tale signs you might be ready to change your security stack. You spend m...

  Cybersecurity given:  attackers will never stop trying to find ways to exploit weaknesses and vulnerabilities anywhere in an organization to carry out an attack . Whether it’s an unpatched web server, an out-of-date application with known vulnerabilities, or a user who tends to click links first and read later, attackers focus on finding a way to gain a foothold into an environment that will ultimately lead to them carrying out their attack.  EDR Software , IT security teams and the vendors that support them continuously introduce new methods and technologies to make it harder for attackers to compromise an  IT environment  successfully, but it still happens frequently.  Now imagine an environment that was equally as critical to a business that did not get the same security focus as the IT environment. If an attacker compromised this environment, the company could suffer substantial losses, leading to catastrophic results. That is a scary thought, but for...