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Carlos Cordero's avatar

Culture.

Culture is the set of tendons that connect People with Policy (& Process) and those with Technology.

Our failure to make progress these past 20-30-odd years is in great part a failure of culture.

"... today’s users are more tech savvy and have a lower tolerance on security as an obstacle to productivity...' <--- that's a cultural problem. it is ignorance, arrogance, and knowing just enough to be dangerous but not enough to have discretion.

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Christofer Hoff's avatar

Having done just that over the last 18 months and grown a security team from zero to over 60 people, your choices are sound.

I’d add that in order to extract signal and enable actionable intelligence you also need:

1) A SEIM/SOAR/whatever you want to call it

2) Some manner of vulnerability management / patching platform for endpoints and tie to cloud

3) some form of SASE capability for app visibility/control and threat mitigation including ZTNA capabilities for secure access from endpoints

4) some form of Identity management/IGA/entitlement management - likely tied to your IdP that enables conditional access and policy enforcement connected to MDM and hopefully tied to enabling Privileged Access Management

Add that to yours and I think you’re cooking with gas…

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Alexis Lavi's avatar

Hands down agree on the others - even SASE can be up there in my 'top 5' depending on the org. I took an approach of balancing - ease of implementation with fidelity / assurance of the tools for an ops team.

You show me an organization with a strong IGA and I expect everything else to be a walk in the park for that org :)

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