Thought leadership from Trifork Security
By Mads Vigh | 1,263 words | Read time: 7 minutes
The digitalization of business in 2025 presents both unprecedented opportunities and complex security challenges. Organizations require agility and strategic foresight to thrive. Trifork Security focuses on operationally resilient security, anticipating threats and developing innovative solutions.
Our thought leadership emphasizes security as integral to successful digitalization. We provide tailored, adaptable services, partnering with clients to understand their unique needs and develop comprehensive strategies. Ultimately, we aim to empower organizations to confidently navigate the digital frontier, fostering security awareness and innovation for a more secure digital future.
Today’s digital challenges: A complex landscape
The existing approach to IT security and monitoring no longer works
- High IT complexity: This stems from numerous IT technologies and dependencies, an expanding attack surface with lateral movements, and fragmented tools that create blind spots.
- High business risk: This is evident in the increasing level and time to resolve IT incidents, the growing sophistication and speed of external security risks, and the potential for significant financial and business impact.
Current approaches to cybersecurity and IT operations are simply not sustainable.
Organizations are experiencing:
- Stressed resilience and workload: With 50% of downtime attributed to cybersecurity and IT operations, customers often detect outages before the company does.
- Excessive workload: This includes high false positive alarms, a deluge of IT alerts without correlation, and time-consuming maintenance.
- Increasing downtime and impact: Fragmented resources and legacy debt lead to higher downtime, impacting revenue, productivity, recovery costs, and trust.
- Rising cost pressure and lack of resources.
Moreover, the cybersecurity risk is escalating:
- Nation-state and e-crime activities are increasing, with significant investments from some countries and persistent focus on specific sectors by e-criminals.
- Attack acceleration is breakneck, with some attacks taking as little as 48 minutes or even 51 seconds.
- Innovation, fueled by AI-accelerated capabilities, leads to easy entry for attackers and rising cross-domain attacks that blend with normal activities.
Platform consolidation across IT security and monitoring
To combat these challenges, Trifork Security advocates for platform consolidation across IT Security and Monitoring.
This approach brings fewer point solutions and leads to more effective overall solutions, as 80% of the required logs are overlapping and good IT security equals best practice IT operation, whereby new central IT operation management tools are being driven from the security sector, emphasizing the need for a shared view, understanding, and platform support.
Benefits of platform consolidation
- Centralized data and automation: Increases efficiency, quality, and speed.
- Integrated insight: Provides full and integrated visibility of end-to-end activities and services.
- Reduced complexity: Eliminates blind spots and enables fact-based decisions.
- AI and automation efficiencies: Achieved via central and integrated data.
- Fast reaction and resolution time.
- Reduced operation and maintenance costs.
- Enhanced business resilience: Reduces downtime costs.
Observability is a key component of this strategy. It allows engineers to analyze the internal states of a system by understanding its external outputs, enabling a proactive approach to optimize systems based on the data they generate.
We are at a turning point, moving away from technical silos and fragmented tools towards centralized platforms that offer a full overview and the ability to react quickly, 24/7.
Trifork Security’s approach to platform solutions
As an elite partner of Splunk and CrowdStrike, Trifork Security offers comprehensive platform solutions. Our services include:
- Advisory: Acting as a trusted advisor with broad technical insight and business understanding to help clients harness the full potential of their security posture.
- Managed security services: Providing real-time analytics and 24/7 monitoring and response to detect, investigate, and respond to threats.
- Managed observability services: Offering real-time overview and prioritization of IT management, enabling fact-based decisions and lower downtime.
- Managed data platform: Centralizing log collection and storage for documentation and analytical purposes, supporting both security and observability to align IS/IT.
Our approach to maturity and NIS2 compliance progresses through phases, starting with basic cyber hygiene (CIS controls IG1) and moving towards full coverage SIEM and advanced governance.
Navigating NIS2 and the regulatory landscape
The regulatory landscape is becoming increasingly complex, with legislation like NIS2, DORA, and the Cyber Resilience Act impacting businesses broadly and with significant overlap. The NIS2 Directive, in particular, aims to establish a minimum harmonization of cybersecurity requirements across essential and important sectors.
Key aspects of NIS2 include:
- Mandatory security measures: Including supply chain security, basic cyber hygiene, vulnerability management, multi-factor authentication, incident handling, and business continuity.
- Reporting requirements: Incidents deemed “significant” must be reported to authorities within specific timelines (24 hours, 72 hours, 30 days).
- Management responsibility: Top management is held accountable for documented compliance, with related sanctions.
In Denmark, over 6,000 companies across 12 sectors are expected to be affected by the NIS2 Directive, representing over 350,000 employees. A significant portion of these companies are not yet prepared, with over 70% indicating they will struggle to meet all requirements. Many are unsure if they are even covered, or lack a plan for compliance.
Trifork Security offers practical guidelines and recommendations to navigate NIS2 compliance, building on best practices like CIS Critical Security Controls and ISO frameworks. We help organizations understand the scope, implement necessary controls, and establish robust incident response processes.
The Future: AI, Cloud, and data strategy
In the landscape of technology, the years 2025 and 2026 herald a period of profound transformation, marked by the widespread adoption of cutting-edge innovations and evolving regulatory environments. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are no longer emerging technologies; they are components driving automation, insights, and predictive capabilities across industries.
The seamless integration of these technologies into core business processes promises to revolutionize operations, customer engagement, and decision-making frameworks.
The backbone of this digital revolution lies in resilient cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Organizations are moving beyond traditional on-premises solutions, embracing the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud computing.
Hybrid environments, combining the best of both worlds, allow businesses to strategically allocate resources and manage data in a way that aligns with their specific security and operational requirements.
At the heart of this transformation is data – the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. A well-defined data strategy is paramount, dictating how organizations collect, store, manage, and share information.
This strategy must not only maximize the value derived from data but also ensure strict adherence to government and industry regulations, including data privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA. Effective data governance practices are crucial to maintaining data integrity, security, and compliance.
Observability has emerged as a critical discipline, enabling organizations to gain deep insights into the performance, health, and security of their complex IT systems. By monitoring key metrics, identifying anomalies, and troubleshooting issues in real-time, businesses can ensure system resilience and minimize downtime.
Platform consolidation offers a streamlined approach, simplifying IT management and reducing complexity. Centralizing tools and services enables more efficient operations and resource allocation.
Regulatory compliance remains a significant driver of IT strategy. NIS2 and other related regulations require organizations to implement robust cybersecurity measures and incident response plans. Proactively addressing these requirements not only ensures legal compliance but also strengthens the overall security posture.
Also talent management becomes essential. Attracting, retaining, and developing skilled IT professionals is crucial for driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge. Investing in continuous learning and creating a supportive work environment can help organizations build a highly capable workforce.
Cybersecurity is no longer an afterthought; it’s a fundamental requirement. With increasing cyber threats, organizations must implement comprehensive security measures, including advanced threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response capabilities.
Zero Trust architecture is gaining traction, as it assumes no implicit trust and requires verification for every access request, thus minimizing the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.