The Hidden Security Risk in Modern Networks: The Work Between Tools
Summary: This article argues that detection and tooling are no longer the core problem for network security teams, and that the real risk sits in the manual work between tools - gathering context across systems to enrich alerts, manually approving access requests and network changes, and coordinating across fragmented hybrid environments. It attributes worsening conditions to distributed infrastructure, API sprawl, interconnected tooling, rising attack velocity, and AI-driven expectations of speed, and proposes "intelligent workflows" as an orchestration layer connecting systems, teams, approvals, and automation.
What you should know: The article's own list of consequences - outages lasting hours, slow MTTR, and misconfigurations and human error still driving major incidents - describes failures that happen after detection, in the handoffs your tools don't cover. Distributed infrastructure and API sprawl keep expanding the number of systems analysts must context-switch between, so the coordination gap widens even as coverage improves.
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