NEC Australia and Exabeam have expanded their strategic partnership, aiming to help Australian organisations strengthen security operations and address insider risk as automation and AI adoption increases.
In a statement, the companies said NEC Australia will work with Exabeam to deliver behaviour-based security analytics intended to improve threat detection, reduce investigation effort, and increase visibility across hybrid and cloud-native environments.
“Australian organisations are embracing AI, automation and increasingly complex digital operating environments, creating new opportunities but also new security challenges,” said Hanré van Rensburg, Head of Service Strategy, NEC Australia.
“As organisations move towards the agentic enterprise, security teams require greater visibility into both human and non-human activity across their environments.
“Our strengthened partnership with Exabeam enhances NEC Australia’s managed security services capability, enabling us to help customers detect threats earlier, reduce investigation effort and improve security outcomes through advanced behavioural analytics and AI-assisted security operations.”
The announcement positions the partnership around what it describes as the “Agentic Enterprise”, where human users, service accounts and autonomous systems operate at “machine speed”. NEC Australia said it uses Exabeam technology within its own security operations environment and will build further security services around establishing behavioural baselines and identifying anomalous activity across “users, entities and agents”.
Exabeam said its approach applies user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA) and agent behaviour analytics (ABA) to surface high-risk activity and reduce alert noise.
“NEC Australia has a strong track record of delivering trusted technology and security services across some of the most complex environments in the region,” said Sean Abbott, Director of Channel and Alliances – APJ at Exabeam.
“This partnership brings Behavior Intelligence to the centre of security operations. By applying User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA), NEC Australia can help customers surface high-risk activity earlier, cut through alert noise, and focus security teams on the threats that matter.”
The companies also pointed to the use of AI-powered security agents to automate parts of the threat detection, investigation and response workflow, including data enrichment, correlation across environments and the assembly of investigation timelines.
