Leading CISOs are simplifying cybersecurity and boosting agility through platformization. Is your strategy ready for the shift?

Key takeaways

• Having multiple cybersecurity tools increases complexity, costs, and risk.
• Platformization is the preferred solution, with 77% of security executives prioritizing consolidation to streamline operations and reduce costs.
• Unified security platforms deliver measurable benefits: lower costs, greater scalability, increased collaboration, easier training, and faster, AI-driven threat response.
  

Pressure on Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) is mounting. Today’s cybersecurity landscape presents more threats, more tools, and more vendors than ever before. CISOs are tasked with protecting digital assets in an environment where complexity grows by the day.

According to recent industry surveys, 41% of organizations work with at least 10 cybersecurity vendors. In fact, most organizations now juggle an average of 13 vendors and over 30 tools.¹ That number is only moving higher as the threat landscape continues to shift.

The real cost isn’t just measured in dollars. There’s also lost time, productivity, and peace of mind. Fragmented solutions slow response times, introduce human error, and leave teams managing a maze of licenses and renewal dates. It also means training already overstretched teams on several tools.

Deloitte’s latest Global Future of Cyber Survey includes data gathered across 43 countries and six industries. The survey was limited to organizations with at least 1,000 employees and $500 million USD (approximately $700 million CAD) in annual revenue. Some key insights include:

• 40% of respondents report six to ten cybersecurity breaches in the past year.
• Nearly 90% of boards address cyber-related issues at least quarterly.
• 57% anticipate increasing their cybersecurity budgets over the next 12 to 24 months².

These results underscore a global challenge. CISOs are facing more breaches, greater scrutiny from boards, and rising cybersecurity budgets, all while managing a fragmented ecosystem of vendors and tools.

This complexity strains resources and complicates security management and response.

Platformization, which is the integration of multiple cybersecurity functions into a unified platform, addresses these pain points by consolidating tools and vendors. This approach improves visibility, streamlines operations, and enables CISOs to focus on strategic risk management.

What problems does the current situation create?

For many organizations, fragmented tools and solutions have created a complex environment that is difficult to manage:

• Increased response time, human error, and workload due to multiple sources of threat detection and response, and uncorrelated alerts.
• Greater workload and potential for human error when investigating incidents across multiple solutions.
• Higher licensing costs, training costs across many vendors, and management burden with multiple licenses and varying renewal dates.

Platformization is the way forward

We’re seeing a clear shift: 77% of security executives agree that reducing the number of solutions is critical.³

Platformization consolidates cybersecurity tools into a single, foundational platform, to streamline operations, maximize coverage, and lower costs. To ensure coverage of the threat landscape and avoid missing or mishandling cybersecurity incidents, organizations often end up with multiple cybersecurity tools with overlapping capabilities.

With platformization, you can maximize coverage while reducing overlap, reducing the need for integrations among tools, and allowing your analysts to focus and find the relevant information in one spot. While your platform of choice may have coverage gaps, those can be reduced with specific and specialized tools, which will not overlap with your main platform’s functionalities.  

6 ways platformization transforms your security architecture, solutions landscape, and Security Operations Centre (SOC)

1. Optimizes costs 

• Reduces the need for multiple, siloed tools and associated maintenance costs
• Saves costs on licenses, support, and integration
• Requires fewer resources for equivalent or better outcomes

2. Introduces scalability and flexibility

• Adapts to changing threats with cloud-based platforms that scale with your organization
• Simplifies onboarding of new tools, data sources, or processes with native integrations into the platform

3. Centralizes reporting and improves collaboration

• Provides a single source of truth for dashboards and case management
• Streamlines compliance reporting and audit readiness with unified data

4. Streamlines operations

• Reduces alert fatigue by consolidating threat information
• Enables seamless automation and orchestration between tools for faster detection and remediation

5. Enables AI-Driven Automation and Self-Healing

• Uses AI to detect, respond to, and remediate threats in real time—often without human intervention
• Simplifies orchestration of automated responses, increasing productivity

6. Simplifies Procurement

• Reduces the number of contracts and vendor touchpoints, making procurement and renewals more efficient
• Offers bundled solutions and volume pricing, lowering total cost of ownership

Ready to start your platformization journey?

We know the leading platform options—Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, Google and can tailor a solution for your unique needs. Deloitte’s proven frameworks and methodologies drive successful platformization.

In addition, our in-house platform, Deloitte ATLAS, serves as a Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) solution, functioning as an advanced intelligence and integration layer on top of the platforms mentioned above. Rather than adding another tool, ATLAS consolidates and harmonizes data across your environment, reducing fragmented point solutions and manual processes. As the underpinning framework, ATLAS amplifies platform value through automation, orchestration, cost-efficient logging, and a white-glove managed service, delivering a 10x value proposition while optimizing costs and simplifying operations.

ATLAS ingests and enriches security data from multiple sources, regardless of vendor, and applies in-house ML/AI analytics to enable continuous threat hunting, standardized detection and response playbooks, and near-zero false positives. This approach allows organizations to maximize their existing investments while gaining proactive security capabilities, increased automation, and improved mean time to remediation—all without the need for rip-and-replace decisions.

If you’re ready to simplify your environment, reduce costs, and strengthen your security posture, now is the time to act. Reach out to Deloitte’s team for guidance or to hear how others have made the shift.

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