Leaving The Multi-Vendor Trend, Global Companies Start Turning To Integrated Security Platforms

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JAKARTA - Global cybersecurity landscape is shifting. Kaspersky studies revealed 86% of companies are now moving to consolidate security solutions, in order to simplify the system, reduce costs, and strengthen responses to threats.

In a study entitled "Improving resilience: cybersecurity through an immune system," which involved respondents from Russia, Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa noted that 86% of companies were actively leading to consolidation.

A third or about 33% of companies claim to have started combining their security devices into integrated platforms, while another 53% plan to do so in the next two years.

The global cybersecurity firm said that the shift trend reflects a strategic change in the use of many complicated (multi-vendor) security vendors towards a simpler and more integrated approach.

With consolidation, the company hopes that their company can suppress budget swelling due to overlapping solutions, while strengthening visibility against increasingly complex cyber threats.

Even so, the dilemma still exists. Kaspersky data shows 72% of organizations still manage multi-vendor systems, and only 28% are actually turning to one provider.

"The emerging consolidation trend reflects the maturity of cybersecurity strategies, emphasizing the adoption of integrated platforms that simplify management, reduce manual efforts, and increase overall visibility of security posture," said Ilya Markelov, Head of Unified Platform Product Line at Kaspersky.