Tech execs have long been skeptical of security’s hankering after the next shiny technology and the budget to go with it. With good reason: Complex multivendor setups based on best-of-breed sourcing have created the technology equivalent of the Minotaur’s maze. This report helps tech execs understand key decisions and questions, as well as tradeoffs to make for achieving both consolidation and protection objectives, in order to rationalize and optimize the security technology stack.