Nikoloz K.

- iScan Advanced Scanning Tool - Scans repositories for exposed secrets, API keys, and credentials for bug bounty

If you're evaluating cybersecurity tools or building your own product, you can find 3,158 tools at CybersecTools.

I've added 3 new security tools to CybersecTools this week:

- NinjaOne Endpoint Management - Unified endpoint management platform with automation, patching, and remote access
- EmailInspect AI PoweredDMARC Monitoring - AI-powered DMARC monitoring and email authentication security platform

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Ask your SOC team what they actually use vs what procurement bought them.

The silence will tell you everything.

The gap between what impresses the board and what helps your on-call engineer?

That's where your real security risk lives.

Until users control budgets or buyers become users, nothing changes.

I've watched security teams quietly replace $500K "enterprise platforms" with Python scripts and open-source tools.

Not because they're rebels.

Because they need something that actually works when there's a breach.

This isn't a bug. It's the business model.

Vendors optimize for:

* PowerPoint, not operations
* RFP checkboxes, not usability
* Executive fear, not practitioner needs

They win deals by impressing people who'll never use the product.

The C-suite sees a gorgeous dashboard. "AI-powered detection!" "100% coverage!" They're sold.

Your SOC analyst? Buried in false positives at 2 AM, manually correlating data because nothing integrates.

Same product. Different reality.

Security vendors optimize for buyers, not users.

Here's the ugly truth nobody wants to say out loud:

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3. @Trellix Security Platform
AI-powered platform for detection, response, and threat protection

4. @Checkmarx One
AppSec platform with SAST, SCA, IaC, ASPM, and AI-powered remediation

The CybersecTools directory now has 3,154 security tools: cybersectools.com

This week I reviewed and published 100+ new cybersecurity tools including:

1. Seqrite EDR
EDR solution for threat detection, response, and investigation

2. Secureends Identity Governance & Administration
Identity governance for access reviews, compliance, and provisioning

The uncomfortable truth:

Your incident response plan is incomplete if it doesn't specify WHO communicates WHAT to WHOM and WHEN.

Not just how fast engineers click buttons.

Most companies learn this lesson after their first major incident costs them a customer.

Smart companies learn it before.

Why communication trumps speed:

Silence creates panic. Speculation fills information voids. Trust evaporates in minutes, not hours.

A 2-hour incident with no updates feels worse than a 10-hour incident with transparent communication every 30 minutes.

Strategic teams: → Clear stakeholder updates every 30 minutes → Transparent impact assessment → Proactive customer outreach → Technical excellence AND communication

Result: Incident takes 8 hours, customers become advocates.

Here's what I see in real incidents:

Technical-focused teams: → War rooms with engineers → Rapid triage and patches → Speed metrics everywhere → Customer communication as afterthought

Result: Incident resolved in 4 hours, customers lost forever.

It's not how fast you fix the problem.

It's how well you communicate while fixing it.

Your customers can't see your technical response. They only experience your communication response.

Most security teams obsess over Mean Time To Resolution.

They're optimizing the wrong metric.

After responding to dozens of incidents across Forbes Cloud 100 FinTech, global FMCG operations, and enterprise banking, here's what actually determines survival:

You're not choosing a vendor.

You're choosing your security future.

Treat it like the strategic decision it actually is.

Or realize it 18 months from now when it's too late to change course.

The brutal truth:

Companies that win enterprise customers don't have the "best" security stack.

They have the stack that makes strategic sense for where they're going.

Not where they are. Where they're going.

What actually matters before you evaluate a single feature:

* How does this affect our deal velocity?
* What does implementation timeline mean for growth targets?
* How will this constrain our next funding round?
* What's the real TCO including opportunity cost?

Why this keeps happening:

Technical teams evaluate what they can measure.

Business impact is hard to quantify. Feature lists are easy.

So they optimize for demos instead of outcomes.

They buy tools that look perfect in POCs but break execution in production.

Real examples I've seen:

The "best-of-breed" tool that created vendor sprawl → blocked SOC 2 audit

The "enterprise platform" with 18-month implementation → lost 2 major deals

The "perfect API" choice → sabotaged M&A integration strategy

The Strategic Reality nobody evaluates:

→ This vendor shapes your architecture for 3-5 years
→ Their roadmap determines your compliance timeline
→ Their integrations dictate your stack evolution
→ Their support quality impacts incident response
→ Their market position affects customer trust

The Technical Theater companies perform:

→ Engineering runs exhaustive POCs
→ Security builds requirement matrices
→ Procurement negotiates per-seat pricing
→ Everyone checks boxes

Nobody asks: "How does this affect our €20M enterprise deal closing in Q3?"

Here's what's actually happening:

You're not buying a security tool.

You're making a multi-year commitment that will either accelerate or sabotage your growth.

That "technical decision" just locked in your entire security architecture for 3-5 years.

After reviewing 150+ B2B security programs, I see the same pattern.

Companies spend 200+ hours on technical POCs.

They evaluate API docs, feature matrices, and integration capabilities.

They think they're being thorough.

They're optimizing for the wrong variables.

Vendor selection isn't a technical decision.
It's a 3-year business strategy disguised as a feature comparison.
Most companies realize this 18 months too late.
Here's what nobody tells you: 🧵

I've added 3 new security tools this week:

- SoSafe Smart phishing simulations
- Maze AI Agents
- Radiant Logic RadiantOne

If you're evaluating cybersecurity tools or building your own product, you can find 3,060 tools at CybersecTools.

5. ImmuniWeb® Neuron
AI-enhanced web app vulnerability scanner with zero false-positive SLA

The CybersecTools directory now has 3057 security tools, helping security teams find the right solutions.

3. ResponseHub Security Questionnaires
AI-powered platform for automating security questionnaire completion and management

4. Plexicus CSPM
CSPM platform for AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI misconfiguration detection