Cybersecurity Dive April 29, 2024
There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Or too many good things.
And that has become a problem in a digital world where the need to manage application security risk at enterprise scale and at unprecedented speed has never been greater.
To meet that demand, many organizations have added to their existing set of application security testing (AST) tools. The perception, apparently, is that if some tools improve your security, more will improve it even more and even faster. The Enterprise Strategy Group recently reported that 70% of enterprise organizations are using 10 or more AST tools.
But “tool sprawl” is likely to result in the opposite outcome. Instead of enabling faster development, it leads to...