Security Tool Sprawl: The New Breach Vector For Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering, September 15,2025
'More is better' has always been a dangerous assumption in tech. In security, it may be downright reckless.
Across the industry today, organizations are drowning in their own defenses: dozens, sometimes hundreds, of overlapping tools, dashboards, and agents, all purporting to keep the enterprise safe. Paradoxically, this glut of security tooling is fast becoming a bigger risk than the threats it was meant to stop.
As platform engineering emerges as the connective tissue of modern enterprise delivery, it's time to recognize security tool sprawl for what it is: a new breach vector. And it's platform teams - not just CISOs - who will be on the hook to fix it.