
Siloed Security Tools Block Exposure Paths from Reaching Board Reports
CISOs cannot answer exposure, trend, or financial impact questions because security data remains fragmented across six or more tools that do not share context. This produces activity metrics instead of attack path graphs, a gap CSMA aims to close but that current procurement patterns ignore. The result is persistent blind spots until incidents surface the combined paths.
Enterprises that enforce shared context layers report measurable quarter-over-quarter exposure reduction within 18 months, per early CSMA deployments. Next steps hinge on contract language mandating data federation across current vendors rather than new platform acquisitions.
Gartner: 35% of enterprises with 5+ security platforms will mandate CSMA-style correlation contracts by end of 2027
Sources (3)
- [1]Primary Source(https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/why-cisos-struggle-to-answer-boards.html)
- [2]Supporting Source(https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/ cybersecurity-mesh-architecture)
- [3]Supporting Source(https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/)