Looking for a New Security Technology? Choose a Partner, not a Vendor

Previously, I borrowed the concept of carcinization from convergent evolution and applied it to security to talk about how security tools have evolved over time so that product categories are no longer clearly defined. When the walls between endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools and network security technologies begin to crumble, and when categories like extended detection and response (XDR) and threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR) platforms collide, everything starts to sound the same.