Technology Consolidation and Rationalization
Identify Gaps. Consolidate Tech. Improve ROI.
Evaluate and Optimize Your Existing Cybersecurity Tool Stack
The amount of security tools organizations have is staggering and ever-growing. It’s this tool expansion that is causing decreased visibility into security control gaps, redundant tools and capabilities and increasing your costs. Now is the time to maximize the value of your security tools.
Optiv’s Technology Consolidation and Rationalization (TCR) offers expert, data-driven analysis on ways to reduce risk through a comprehensive review of your technology stack against business outcomes and requirements.
We can help:
- Evaluate your current technology and security gaps for better decisions.
- Create a tailored roadmap using a multi-faceted, tailored analysis to boost ROI and TCO.
- Identify integrations that can enhance your technology ecosystem connectivity and efficiency.
TCR is a key service under a larger Technology Consolidation umbrella that aims to help your organization gain a greater understanding of your security environment and program strategy. Start with the Optiv Security Program Landscape (SPL) – a no-cost review of your security posture today.
Jumpstart Your Technology Consolidation and Rationalization Program
Optiv’s technology consolidation and rationalization starter kit includes seven actionable steps to begin optimizing your security tech stack today.
Technology Consolidation and Rationalization Analysis Process
Technology rationalization begins with an architecture review among overlapping features between the multiple technologies you already own. Our Technology Rationalization and Consolidation service then lays a path to actual rationalization by implementing the revised tech stack and sunsetting elements that are redundant, leaving only the necessary technology to deliver a strong security posture. Here’s how it works:
Technology inventory: Work with Optiv subject matter experts via interviews and documentation review to gather discovery data on your current suite of tools across eight security domains, 23 subcategories and 130+ security controls.
Analyze data: Evaluate how your tools are being used, how well they meet your needs and how much coverage they provide across a spectrum of levels.
Visualization: Receive a controls map that visually identifies gaps, redundant tools and areas of opportunities through unused capabilities, integrations or even tool retirement.
Deliver opportunities and actions: Get a written report that provides an executive overview of the findings and recommendations.
Understanding Your Personalized Report
Your Rationalization Report
Turn insights into actions with a thorough, individualized report outlining your options for next steps and expert guidance. Each report contains:
- Executive summary of opportunities for improvement
- Highlights of key findings
- Mapping results and recommendations for industry frameworks
- Recommendations organized by deficiency, redundancy and potential integrations
- Tech Roadmaps and Strategy Analysis (if included)
Surfacing Gaps
Technical and functional deficiencies are clearly identified by security control, along with recommendations and level of importance.
- Technical deficiencies – Existing products are not capable of addressing specific use cases and/or security control functions
- Functional deficiencies – Products owned can address specific use cases and/or security control functions but not fully operationalized to do so
High-Impact Integrations
Discovering potential integrations in your tool stack is key to having disparate tools work together. This gives your security teams the right information for faster threat detection and a more effective response. Learn which existing tools can be configured for tighter integration to provide additional benefits not currently in place.
Roadmap to Success
Recommendations from Optiv experts are organized to build out a strategic security technology roadmap.
- Short-range items contribute the most time-to-value in control deficiencies and reduce information risk
- Medium-range items typically are moderate-to-high complexity and might need business cases for prioritization in the organization
- Long-range recommendations have a high degree of integration, optimization and innovation, resulting in hyper-resilience
Use Cases and Case Studies
Addressing Compliance
Ensure Compliance with Technology Consolidation and Rationalization
See how a healthcare insurance provider improved their security program through increased visibility using Technology Consolidation and Rationalization by mapping their tools to Optiv’s security controls and the MITRE ATT&CK® framework.
New Leader
New Leader Due Diligence with Technology Consolidation and Rationalization
Learn how newly promoted leaders at a large financial institution quickly made sense of their security technology stack to drive a short-, mid- and long-term strategic roadmap.
Cost Saving Initiatives
Save Money Over Time with Technology Consolidation and Rationalization
Explore how a large multinational pharmaceutical company found redundancies and integrations to improve their threat intelligence capabilities while identifying $11M of cost savings over 3 years.
Value of a Technology Consolidation and Rationalization Analysis
- Improved visibility into InfoSec program technology gaps
- Functional and operational improvements for existing technology controls
- Maximize investment in security technology
- Rapidly remediate information risks
- Slash security tech controls time to value
- Eliminate maturation inhibitors
- Optimize integration across systems and technologies
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