Best-of-Breed Strategy
A program-shaping strategy that buys the leading point product in each category (best EDR, best SIEM, best email security). Higher posture ceiling, higher integration cost, higher operational burden, less vendor leverage.
Where this term fits in a CISO program
Best-of-Breed Strategy is one of 35 cybersecurity strategy concepts CISO Game models live. Best-of-Breed Strategy appears throughout the simulation — in the risk register, the investment catalog, and the mechanics reference — so a player encounters the concept in context rather than as an isolated definition.
See it in play
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