Platform Consolidation
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A program-shaping strategy that buys a single-vendor platform covering many categories. Lower posture ceiling per category, less integration work, single throat to choke, vendor lock-in risk (R19).
Where this term fits in a CISO program
Platform Consolidation is one of 35 cybersecurity strategy concepts CISO Game models live. Platform Consolidation 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.
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