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It's Time to Prioritize Integration

Defense in depth is a good thing. So, too, in theory, is having best-of-breed tech.

What’s not good or sustainable is when security teams, who set off looking for solutions, end up with
layers of defensive technology they don’t have the capacity to operate effectively.

Especially with the growing risks from supply chain attacks, SOCs need compact, connected security
stacks with low management burdens. Organizations will get safer when the threat detection and
response systems covering different parts of their environment talk to one another and collect data in a
unified format.

To help make this happen, vendors need to focus more on augmenting the tools likely to be in place
within other parts of their customers' environments. It’s not good running parallel to your customers'
favorite solutions, even if you’re the best on the market.

Companies should also urgently assess whether their security tool stacks are burdening their SOCs. It
makes sense to look to partner with vendors that can unify security capability into a single product. Any
company that puts in place a unified security stack can reduce their costs and blind spots and alleviate
much of the stress. Their SOC will thank them, too.

About the Author

David Atkinson is Founder and CEO of SenseOn. He has over fifteen years’
experience working within the UK’s specialist military units and government
environments, where he was the first cyber operative. During David’s time within
government and whilst working alongside CISOs, he realized current
approaches to cyber defense were cumbersome to set up, slow to adapt and
expensive to run.

David brought together a team of experts to solve some of the common
struggles that CISOs were experiencing, including an erosion of trust caused by
alert fatigue, unpredictable costs of ingesting logs, and being too slow to adapt as getting hold of the right
data was either painful to get prioritized by busy teams or that analytics take a long time to get into
production.

He founded SenseOn in 2017 with a vision to make the Internet a safe place so businesses could prosper
without fear. His sense of camaraderie, instilled by his military background, has created a collaborative
working culture, nurtured by an extremely bright, dedicated and passionate team. Innovations by the
team in pursuit of SenseOn’s vision have been recognized as Innovations of the Year by both the Institute
of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the World Economic Forum.

David can be reached online at [email protected] and https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-atkinson-
50028b156/ and at our company website https://www.senseon.io/

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