Tools or Solutions: What Are You Really Looking For?
As part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series—a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories— Lalit Ahluwalia of Inspira Enterprise confronts tools fatigue, stating the answer is “find a cybersecurity solution, not more tools.” Organizations have gotten into the habit of buying a multitude of security tools to manage their cyber threats and risks. And when it comes to selecting security tools or solutions, organizations today have a smorgasbord of choices. There are a ton of tools available, but what’s happening is that organizations are just buying more products to throw at the problem without the intrinsic expertise to make those tools part of the solution. This has resulted in tool fatigue and unnecessary complexity. The situation has been exacerbated by digital transformation and the push to remote work that occurred because of the pandemic. Technologies were rapidly adopted, sometimes in a cobbled-together way– and we’re