Blog Security 6 Tips for a Successful Security Vendor Consolidation Christine Ferrusi Ross is a Product Marketing Director at Akamai, where she leads go-to-market messaging for the Application Security portfolio. Prior to Akamai, she worked with blockchain and security startups on product/market fit and positioning. She also spent many years as an industry analyst helping organizations buy and manage emerging technologies and services. If your organization is currently working to downsize your cybersecurity vendor pool, you’re in the majority. In the past, organizations didn’t give much thought to security vendor consolidation. With the threat landscape continually expanding, and new cyberthreats emerging every day, company leaders typically wouldn’t bat an eye at bringing on a wide range of security suppliers. \r\n However, recent economic conditions and increasing desires to reduce internal management workloads have put cybersecurity suppliers high on the list for potential consolidation.…