Forbes August 28, 2024
Jeremy Vaughan is CEO of Start Left Security.
Imagine you’re responsible for security for a large office building. Would it be better to buy a few individual cameras, a handful of locks and an alarm sensor or two—or install an integrated security system that combines surveillance devices, analytics, automated access control and centralized dashboards? This is a platform with several solutions in one place. Everything else being equal, option two is better. The same principle applies to cybersecurity.
Just like a physical building needs a unified security system, secure software development needs integrated platforms that centralize and coordinate everything. Individual tools work fine for the specific problems they were designed to handle, but piling one on top of another indefinitely...