Cybersecurity fragmentation hinders organizational risk visibility

Modern cybersecurity teams are facing increased difficulty in assessing organizational risk despite having access to higher volumes of security data than in previous decades. This challenge stems largely from fragmented security frameworks built piecemeal over time, resulting in a patchwork of tools with incompatible consoles and data formats.

This fragmentation creates visibility gaps, particularly regarding asset management. Security experts note that many organizations lack a complete inventory of their devices, often due to Shadow IT or failed decommissioning processes. Such gaps can allow attackers to exploit forgotten or unlogged assets, such as firewalls believed to be inactive.

Furthermore, existing tools like Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) often fail to provide a complete picture of an incident. While WAFs inspect edge traffic and EDRs monitor operating-system activity, neither typically provides visibility into the application runtime. This gap prevents security teams from understanding the full chain of events occurring within an application's logic, necessitating the use of application detection and response to close the context gap.