Most government agencies don’t have a shortage of cybersecurity tools — they have a coordination problem.
From one vendor’s firewall from one vendor, another vendor’s endpoint detection, to identity management from the third vendor, each runs its own alert queue, its own log format, and its own definition of what counts as suspicious.
Security teams then spend more time reconciling data between systems than responding to threats.
“Generic visibility tells you what assets and alerts you have,” says James Ngui, Solutions Engineering Lead for Southeast Asia at TrendAI.
“Contextual visibility tells you why each one matters, what it is connected to, what an attacker could do with it, and how likely that path is to be exploited.”
That distinction, Ngui notes, is the missing link for whole-of-government (WOG) cyber resilience, and is at the heart of how TrendAI is helping govtech leaders move from reactive firefighting to proactive security.
TrendAITM, the AI-security business of Trend Micro, provides proactive, AI-powered threat detection and security solutions built for the AI age.
Breaking the silo problem
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