Walking the Business Hall at Black Hat USA 2025, attendees were greeted by more than 400 vendor booths — a bustling showcase of cybersecurity’s innovation, hype, and shiny distractions. It’s a perfect metaphor for our industry: we haven’t made cybersecurity confusing out of malice or misunderstanding, but out of a genuine desire to solve problems. Unfortunately, the result is often overwhelming for those trying to make smart security decisions.
Walking the floor at Black Hat is a lot like looking inside the average enterprise security stack—crowded, busy, and full of overlapping solutions. According to recent research, organizations juggle an average of 83 different security tools from 29 different vendors (Cybersecurity Dive). Microsoft’s data backs this up, showing large organizations deploying around 75 security solutions to protect infrastructure, applications, and data (Microsoft Pulse). But more tools don’t always mean better protection. This level of complexity often introduces visibility gaps, misconfigurations, alert fatigue, and slowed response times—ironically increasing the risk these tools were meant to reduce.
Configuration chaos is another layer to the problem. FireMon revealed that 60% of firewalls failed compliance checks initially, 95% of application objects and 82% of service objects were unused, and 30% of firewall rules were inactive, with 63% undocumented, and over 10% redundant or shadowed (TechRadar). This isn’t due to laziness—it’s the natural byproduct of sprawling, disconnected systems. And 91% of security and IT leaders admit to making compromises — sacrificing visibility, data quality, or tool integrations, to keep operations moving (TechRadar).
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Cybersecurity is one of the few professions where proving you’re doing a good job means nothing bad happens. That’s a hard ROI to explain to executives, especially when spending is measured against silence. And walking the floor at Black Hat, it’s clear there’s far too much money spent without a clear understanding of a tool’s value—or worse, on solutions searching for a problem to solve. We often fall into the trap of thinking more is better. But is it? Or is it time to question the explosion of solution posture management (SPM) tools that claim their perspective is the one that matters?
What if we started with the basics—but designed them to work together from the start? Instead of stitching together dozens of point solutions and hoping the seams hold, imagine a security foundation where integration isn’t an afterthought, but a core principle.
When protection, detection, and response capabilities are designed to share context and intelligence natively, you eliminate the misconfigurations, redundancies, and “blind spots” that plague disconnected stacks. This isn’t about buying into a monolithic vendor story; it’s about choosing an ecosystem and partner where interoperability, automation, and transparency are baked in, so your team spends less time wrestling with tool integrations.
Armor focuses on building pre-integrated capabilities, that reduce operational friction, speed response, and ensure every dollar invested is traceable to a measurable security outcome. In a market full of shiny, isolated tools, security by design is the real differentiator. The best defense isn’t “more”—it’s cohesive, connected, and built to protect you.
Armor is here to help. It starts with a conversation and ends with a stronger, smarter cybersecurity posture. Request a free Cyber Resilience assessment today and see how security by design transforms risk into resilience.
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