ICE’s strategic approach to managing cybersecurity tool sprawl [Video]

Cybersecurity tool sprawl has become a pressing concern as companies grapple with expanding data resources. Wrangling several disparate tools and platforms created exploitable cracks for cyber attackers to exploit.

Dealing with tool sprawl, while aligning business and technical objectives, is a crucial responsibility for today’s business information security officers.

“About four years ago, we knew we had a pretty bad sprawl problem because we were building and buying things like crazy,” said Ryan Hebert(pictured), business information security officer of the Clear Credit business units of the New York Stock Exchange, Fixed Income & Data Services and Intercontinental Exchange Inc. “We’ve got 40 different major business units spanning a lot of different things. All essentially the same, trying to give transparency to our customers across markets of different instruments. We’re different in a lot of cases to most people in the fact that we have to secure on-prem and data centers we own, some places …