The cybersecurity market has hundreds or thousands of vendors competing for budget, all with different solutions to different perceived problems.

Faced with all that noise, cybersecurity teams face a huge challenge to understand their options—let alone make effective decisions.

In The Paradox of Choice, American psychologist Barry Schwartz argues that eliminating consumer choices can greatly reduce anxiety for shoppers. Bring that into the cybersecurity world, and you can add an extra dimension. Limiting choice for cybersecurity leaders doesn’t just minimize anxiety—it also improves results, as measured by the maintenance of acceptable service levels.

Returning to ITIL

It’s easy to forget how young the cybersecurity industry is. Although many of us have been working hard for a couple of decades to protect our organizations from cyber threats, our industry is still in its infancy compared to the more established field of IT operations.

In our last blog, What Can Cybersecurity Learn (Read more...)