Beyond Integration Theatre: Building Stronger Cyber Platforms
ComputerWeekly.com, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
The Security Think Tank looks at platformisation, considering questions such as how CISOs can distinguish between a truly integrated platform and 'integration theater, and how to protect unified platforms.
Modern chief information security officers (CISOs) face a threat landscape defined by distributed systems, volatile supply chains, and expanding attack surfaces. Platform consolidation is often used to reduce complexity, yet only architectures with deep integration across data, control, and identity planes achieve the intended security benefits. This makes the integration layer a dominant source of enterprise risk.