IDC PlanScape: Cybersecurity Tool Cost Control

This IDC PlanScape provides practical guidance on streamlining cybersecurity tool costs. While there are no simple solutions for slashing tool spending across the board, there are effective steps that enterprises can take to avoid unnecessary costs, as well as increase the predictability of cybersecurity tool spending, while still retaining the capabilities they need to manage the complex array of threats and risks they face today."As overall spending on cybersecurity continues to grow, reining in unnecessary costs related to cybersecurity tools has become even more critical," says Chris Tozzi, adjunct research advisor for IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP). "This is even more true given the need to deploy new types of security protections and capabilities in response to emerging categories of threats."