Bolted on
Jan 5th, 2019 by Jesper Kråkhede
What did my friend actually mean with bolted on? For sure he means a security solution that might or might not be well integrated into the operating system and even if that is a big issue in itself the real challenge was that the user interfaces sometimes mandated some serious training to be able to use making the cost of using the solutions a lot higher than solutions using a familiar interface that looks like the operating system or other applications built for the operating system.
Is this really a security problem? Yes, because it consumes resources that could be better spent to provide a higher degree of security. Instead of having a team of eight he needs a team of ten just to cope with a few solutions that uses non-standard interfaces and non-standard integration.
So first thing when he´s back from vacation is to replace those solutions with some that is better integrated with the rest of his tools. Best of suite beats best of breed.