What’s in the toolbox?
Selecting the right tools is fundamental to building an effective cybersecurity architecture. With the overwhelming array of solutions on the market, architects must thoughtfully curate a toolkit tailored to their organization’s specific risks, constraints, and use cases.
Rather than reactively adopting every new technology, discerning professionals take a systematic approach based on established frameworks such as NIST or MITRE ATT&CK. This provides a stable taxonomy for evaluating tools by common categories and security functions.
The following sections will explore major classes of security tools, providing examples and analyzing their purpose within a defense-in-depth toolkit. While not exhaustive, these categories encompass core solutions for threat detection, prevention, and response. In addition, the various labs and exercises associated with each tool set vary in complexity, from basic to more advanced, but all of them should be...
