Grover then advises researching threat detection and response, including incident management and vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT). “Last but not the least, identity — because, at the end of the day, you are going to interact with your clients, your partners, your employees, and other stakeholders from the board as well,” she says.
Regardless of the where your company is on its growth curve, security leaders should prioritize their pilots based on the underlying purpose of the technology: what they ultimately defend, Grover says.
To sharpen focus in a busy landscape, organizations may want to determine how a technology advances — or does not advance — the security posture of the area they are trying to strengthen.
“[The technologies] are basically protecting these five control points, which are your data, your network, your APIs and applications, your endpoint, and your identity,” she says. “All solutions are directly linked to these five control points.”