Why Over-Investing in Technology Can Undermine Your SOC
CISOs today face relentless pressure from boards and regulators to strengthen defenses. The instinctive response is often to add more tools, another threat feed, another SIEM upgrade, another layer of endpoint protection. Yet history shows that some of the most high-profile breaches occurred inside organizations with no shortage of technology . The problem isn’t a lack of tools, it’s too many of them deployed without strategy. When a Security Operations Center (SOC) becomes a patchwork of overlapping platforms, analysts spend more time wrestling with dashboards than neutralizing threats. The irony is clear: in trying to buy their way into stronger security, enterprises often weaken the very function meant to protect them. The Illusion of More = Better Organizations often fall into the trap of assuming that adding more tools strengthens their defense posture. While every product may offer unique capabilities, each new addition introduces more dashboards, alerts,...