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"publishedAt": "2026-03-04T19:32:24.000Z",
"site": "https://www.csoonline.com",
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"October 2025 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting",
"Zero Trust",
"Omnis Cyber Intelligence",
"Read the commissioned Forrester Consulting Opportunity Snapshot",
"Learn more about Omnis Cyber Intelligence"
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"textContent": "AI. Automation. Zero Trust.\n\nThey dominate every security strategy document. But there’s a truth sitting underneath all three: **none of them work without deep, trustworthy visibility**.\n\nYou can’t continuously verify identities without knowing how they behave. You can’t train AI on incomplete data and expect accurate detection. You can’t automate response if every decision is built on inference instead of evidence.\n\nAnd we believe this is exactly what an October 2025 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of NETSCOUT confirms.\n\n## **Visibility is no longer a tool category, it’s a strategic requirement**\n\nAccording to the study:\n\n * 72% of organizations say NAV is essential for proactive threat hunting and reactive incident response\n * 69% say a NAV solution is vital to their threat detection and incident response process\n\n\n\nThis isn’t about adding more gadgets to the SOC. It’s about strengthening the foundation that the SOC stands on.\n\nWhen visibility is weak, every advanced capability becomes unstable:\n\n * AI guesses\n * Zero Trust misclassifies\n * Automated response becomes dangerous\n * Threat hunting becomes inefficient\n * TDIR slows down\n\n\n\nModern security needs reliable, high-fidelity input. Without it, innovation collapses on contact.\n\n## **The cost of building the future on a weak foundation**\n\nExecutives often assume advanced technologies will “fix” visibility. In reality, they depend on it.\n\nAI can’t correlate what it can’t see. Zero Trust can’t validate what it can’t interpret. Orchestration can’t automate decisions it doesn’t fully understand.\n\nThis is why thought-leading organizations are shifting their strategy: not diving deeper into tools but investing in the visibility that enables them.\n\n## **Where Omnis Cyber Intelligence fits**\n\nThis future-ready foundation is exactly where Omnis Cyber Intelligence provides leverage, not because it replaces AI or Zero Trust, but because it supports them.\n\nOmnis Cyber Intelligence delivers the kind of high-integrity data those systems depend on:\n\n * Trusted packet-level visibility for AI models that require strong ground truth\n * Behavioral analytics that strengthen Zero Trust validation\n * Unified hybrid visibility that consolidates evidence across environments\n * Context-rich metadata that accelerates automated workflows\n * Retrospective investigation capabilities for threat hunting teams\n\n\n\nOmnis Cyber Intelligence becomes the “clarity layer” beneath modern security, not the star of the strategy, but the reason the strategy works.\n\n## **The leaders who win will be the ones who see clearly**\n\nThe future of cybersecurity is already arriving, and it’s arriving fast. But speed without clarity creates fragility.\n\nOrganizations that build AI, Zero Trust, and SOC modernization on top of strong visibility will accelerate safely. Those who build on top of guesswork will move fast, until something breaks.\n\nForrester’s research underscores the shift. Omnis Cyber Intelligence aligns naturally with the direction the industry is heading.\n\nThe question for leaders isn’t whether they need modern visibility. It’s whether they have enough of it to support the future they’re building.\n\nRead the commissioned Forrester Consulting Opportunity Snapshot\n\nLearn more about Omnis Cyber Intelligence",
"title": "Why AI, Zero Trust, and modern security require deep visibility"
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