Live from the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2025, Seceon’s Shikha Pandey caught up with Obviam’s EVP Keith Johnson to discuss a major shift in cybersecurity leadership: the move toward outcome-driven metrics as the new standard for evaluating cybersecurity effectiveness.
According to Keith, one recurring theme from the Gartner sessions was clear: CISOs are focused on how to derive the most meaningful KPIs from their security platforms. It’s not just about detecting threats—it’s about proving that investments lead to measurable risk reduction.
Catch the full video conversation between Shikha Pandey and Keith Johnson, recorded live at Gartner, here.
Shikha followed up by asking how Seceon and Obviam are addressing that challenge. Keith explained that the Seceon platform excels by ingesting high volumes of telemetry and turning it into clear, score-driven insight. That insight is then used to guide environment-wide improvements that boost an organization’s overall security posture.
“One of the benefits of the [Seceon] platform really truly is the ability to be able to take all these datapoints, correlate them together, and get you an instant understanding of the network from an alert perspective,” Keith said, “and then give you actionable intel in order to then go take that next step in order to secure those things that are important to you as an organization.”
This is where Seceon differentiates itself as a leader in threat detection and response. By correlating signals across the network, endpoints, cloud, identity systems, and applications, Seceon eliminates noise and surfaces the data that matters most to CISOs: risk, exposure, and impact.
Rather than relying on reactive alerting, Seceon delivers real-time risk scores, helping security leaders understand what’s urgent, what’s improving, and where to focus next.
With pressure mounting from boards, auditors, and regulators, security leaders are increasingly being asked to show metrics that prove impact. Seceon’s aiXDR and aiSIEM platforms support this need with built-in risk scoring and outcome tracking, making it easier for CISOs to communicate risk in a language business stakeholders understand.
By partnering with Obviam, Seceon helps clients not only gain this visibility but also act on it, translating detection into response, and response into measurable security gains.
