Viewing the network as the foundation of cybersecurity, Extreme helps organisations adopt Zero Trust, gain visibility and detect threats proactively.
Its solutions unify security and network operations, breaking down legacy silos and integrating defences directly into infrastructure.
This approach equips enterprises with the controls, agility and resilience needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital market.
In this Q&A, Phil discusses the risks of fragmented tools, the role of AI in both defending and exploiting systems and why unified, infrastructure-level security is critical for tackling today’s evolving cyber threats and regulatory requirements.
What drives tool and team fragmentation in security operations and how does it increase cyber risk?
Fragmentation usually stems from a mix of issues. It can start with well-meaning decisions to buy tools for specific problems. Over time, this creates siloed data, consoles and teams, and it can take a lot of additional work to manage all the information coming from different sources.
Ironically, instead of improving security, it can introduce new risks.
Another factor is the misalignment of business processes as needs change. As business needs evolve and grow, the pressure to address specific requirements can drive IT and security processes in different directions.
And finally, there is shadow IT, where employees attach new devices and applications to the network that haven’t been approved.
If IT and security teams can’t keep pace with business initiatives, other teams across the organisation may seek to find their own solutions, sometimes bypassing official processes and adding to fragmentation.
This can result in delayed alerts, inconsistent processes and difficulties in understanding and correlating events across systems.
Ultimately, the greater the fragmentation, the less efficient and effective a cyber team will be.
This is one of the reasons many IT and security teams are turning toward unified platforms that bring everything across networking, AI and security into one place, making it easier to manage and control.
How do disconnected solutions impact security staff workload and incident response capabilities?
Disconnected tools make incident response slower and security work more stressful.
Security teams and data analysts often spend hours stitching together logs and alerts from different systems, hindering their ability to identify and respond to threats or work on implementing proactive strategies.
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