Solving Tool Sprawl: Consolidating Your Security Stack with the SecOps Cloud Platform

Your security team is drowning in alerts from dozens of disconnected tools. Analysts toggle between 15 different dashboards and browser tabs while critical threats slip through the cracks. Sound familiar? With organizations using an average of 60 to 75 security tools, it's becoming increasingly difficult for analysts to effectively monitor and respond to threats. In this article, we’ll explain how LimaCharlie's SecOps Cloud Platform (SCP) can help you consolidate your security stack, reduce alert fatigue, and streamline your security operations.

Problem: Too Much Data, Limited Visibility

Tool sprawl isn't just about having too many tools; it's about the inability to effectively utilize the data they generate. When security teams are overwhelmed by monitoring multiple dashboards and data sources, critical threats can slip through the cracks.

A recent CSO survey revealed that 90% of respondents use three or more tools for detecting and prioritizing vulnerabilities. Their biggest obstacles? Correlating and prioritizing alerts across multiple tools.

Security specialists lose too much time managing standalone solutions and analyzing countless alerts

Solution: Consolidation with the SecOps Cloud Platform

LimaCharlie's SecOps Cloud Platform offers a way to bring order to tool sprawl. By consolidating your security stack and treating all data sources as first-class telemetry, you can manage operations through a single interface. This greatly simplifies monitoring your organization and ensuring no critical vulnerabilities are overlooked.

How it works:

1. Elevate all data sources to first-class telemetry

Rather than relegating certain data sources to secondary or tertiary status, LimaCharlie treats all data sources as equally important. This means you can write detections and automate responses based on any data source within the platform.

2. Reduce the number of dashboards

By consolidating your data sources within LimaCharlie, you can significantly reduce the number of dashboards your analysts need to monitor. Instead of logging into dozens of different tools, they can focus on just a few key dashboards within the LimaCharlie platform.

3. Retain data for historical threat hunting

LimaCharlie includes a full year of data retention, allowing you to perform historical threat hunting and post-incident analysis without the need for a separate data lake or SIEM.

4. Automate responses across your entire stack

With LimaCharlie's bi-directional capabilities, you can ingest data from any source and send commands directly to the telemetry sources reporting suspicious activity. This allows you to automate responses across your entire security stack, remediating threats the moment they're detected.

The SecOps Cloud Platform centralizes threat data, integrates your security stack, and easily scales to meet your changing cybersecurity needs

Real-World Example: Streamlining Identity Management

One example of how the SCP can help streamline operations is through automated detection and response. Imagine O365 raising an alert due to a suspicious login. Normally, this alert would need to be prioritized and researched by an analyst who would then take further action. With the SCP you can write an automated script to trigger telling O365 to lock the account. This cuts out multiple layers of processing from your D&R process and improves mean time to remediate (MTTR). Now imagine automating response actions for every resource in your security stack.

Using bi-directionality, the SCP can send automated response actions directly to the source of alerts

Would your organization benefit from greater visibility, centralized management, and simplification of its security stack? Adopting the SCP is relatively simple and does not require you to rip and replace your current infrastructure. LimaCharlie can consolidate your existing tools while delivering the additional benefits of free storage (up to a year), improved transparency, and extreme scalability.

To learn more about how LimaCharlie solves tool sprawl and streamline your security operations, schedule a demo.