The Security Platform Is Dead. Long Live the Security Platform

Summary: A 2024 Gartner survey of 162 large enterprises found organizations run an average of 45 cybersecurity tools, and 52% of executives name complexity as the biggest barrier to effective security operations. A 2025 Gartner survey found 62% of companies are actively consolidating suppliers, with another 36% planning to do so within three years, while Crunchbase reports $9.4 billion invested in cybersecurity and privacy startups in the first half of 2025 and IT-Harvest tracks more than 4,000 vendors and 10,000 products.
Why it matters: Consolidation is often driven by cost reduction, procurement efficiency, or contract simplification rather than platform integration, so a smaller vendor count can still leave you with loosely connected products behind a shared UI. Cybersecurity Ventures estimates cybercrime will cost the global economy $10.5 trillion in 2025, and mid-market teams with one or two security generalists rarely have the budget to buy both platforms and point solutions.

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