Challenge
Charmaine Valmonte, CISO at Aboitiz Equity Ventures, describes security during transformation as changing the tyre while the car is moving: cloud workloads spin up quickly, mergers and acquisitions shuffle stacks, and system-centric perimeter thinking no longer holds when data and identity are the center of gravity.
At national-infrastructure scale — power mix targets, digital banking, airports, manufacturing across multiple countries — “noncompliant configuration” is not a spreadsheet row. It is a potential outage, fraud path, or trust failure affecting millions of people.
They needed partners who could scale, experiment, and fit a data-centric monitoring model: know where data lives, how it moves, and when behavior drifts — without blocking legitimate business pivots.
Approach
Aboitiz explicitly names Human Managed alongside other strategic vendors: Human Managed provides asset visibility and cyber intelligence capabilities that help correlate security data across monitoring systems — the glue layer between telemetry silos when the group is hybrid by nature.
That sits inside a broader program: AI-assisted monitoring for misconfigurations in firewall and cloud environments, baseline-and-deviation identity patterns, and automation for repetitive correlation so analysts focus on investigation and new detection logic.
The CISO’s framing is augmented intelligence — machines handle correlation at a scale humans cannot sustain alone; people own judgment, model updates, and escalation.
Impact
Operational
Faster orientation: which assets matter, how controls map, and which alerts share a root cause — instead of parallel investigations per tool.
Risk reduction (examples from the same report)
86% accuracy cited for AI-assisted detection of fraudulent / mule-style account patterns in financial services.
Behavioral baselines (e.g., unusual session times) feeding automated protective responses.
Strategic
Security stays aligned with Aboitiz’s stated aim: use technology to accelerate innovation through people, while preserving stakeholder trust during the shift to a techglomerate operating model.
Human Managed’s role in the article is specific and high leverage: visibility + correlation across monitors — the prerequisite for prioritized response when a group operates banks, grids, airports, and factories on different technology generations. That matches how Human Managed talks about its own mission: structure knowledge so teams can make responsible decisions under pressure