Panel: Modernizing Security Architecture: Platforms or Best-of-Breed, What Works?
Nullcon Goa 2025 · Panel
In an insightful panel discussion at Nullcon, moderated by Rahul Neil Money from Information Security Media Group, leading cybersecurity executives delved into one of the most persistent dilemmas facing modern enterprises: whether to adopt comprehensive **security platforms** from single vendors or opt for a **best-of-breed** approach by integrating specialized tools from multiple providers. The discussion, featuring CISOs Shrihari Kotani (Geo Finance), Pragal Kulkarni (Grow), and security leaders Ketan Vas (TCS) and Satyawati Deadri (Freshworks), highlighted the complexities, trade-offs, and evolving strategies in designing resilient security architectures.
AI review
A panel that mistakes practitioner war stories for strategic insight, delivering a 'hybrid approach is best' conclusion that any CISO already knew before sitting down. The conversation occasionally surfaces interesting anecdotes — the GenAI-DLP build, the browser extension home-brew — but never gets specific enough about tradeoffs, costs, or failure modes to be genuinely useful.