Tool Sprawl Is Dead: But Did Consolidation Actually Fix Anything?

TL;DR Platform consolidation reduces vendor management overhead and simplifies dashboards, but it doesn’t solve the fundamental visibility problem. Security teams consolidating SAST , DAST , SCA and WAF into a unified application security platform still miss application-layer attacks because these tools don’t see inside running applications. The math proves it: organizations face 17.5 new vulnerab