Forbes Technology Council published Karen Kim's February 2025 piece on decision intelligence platforms (DIPs) as a way to navigate multicloud security when visibility and coordination break down.
Kim opens with a blunt analogy: enterprise cyber can feel like driving an unfamiliar city at night with shifting roads. Cloud sprawl, inconsistent configurations, and siloed security, IT, and DevOps teams widen gaps attackers exploit. IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach data on multicloud breaches frames the stakes.
DIPs, in Kim's framing, act like context-aware navigation: unified visibility, real-time detection, predictive analytics, explicit auditable decisions, and continuous learning from outcomes.
She also lists real obstacles: organizational resistance, integration with legacy stacks, privacy and sovereignty concerns, and alert overload if tuning fails.
The article includes a Human Managed customer example from ASEAN banking: limited asset visibility, siloed legacy environments, and a goal to protect distributed digital assets. Human Managed cataloged assets and controls, built knowledge bases for cyber and risk use cases, and supported cloud security, SecOps, and fraud workflows. Kim cites customer-reported outcomes in the source article (network security violations down 90%; phishing and DOS mean time to respond down 97%+). Treat those as the bank's reported results, not universal Human Managed guarantees.
A second case from IBM and Microsoft covers an auto manufacturer's secure-by-design supply chain work at software-defined vehicle scale.
Kim closes on collaborative partnership between platform builders and early adopters while the category is still forming.
