Meet 3 cybersecurity teams cracking the visibility-to-action problem

Cybersecurity teams have never had more data, or more pressure to do something meaningful with it.

Welcome to the actionability era, where simply seeing into your environment isn’t enough. To stay ahead, security and IT teams have to act, adapt, and anticipate.

Organizations like the City of Los Angeles, Gerson Lehrman Group, and Khaleeji Bank are already leading the way. Each team uses the Axonius Asset Cloud to turn fragmented visibility and disconnected data into confident, informed action. They’re protecting critical infrastructure, managing global networks, and meeting regulatory mandates with speed and precision.

Together, their stories show what it truly means to move beyond visibility: gaining clarity and acting on it, conquering complexity, and operating with unshakable confidence.

Gaining clarity (and acting on it)

Strong cybersecurity starts with knowing exactly what you’re protecting, and having the ability to act on that knowledge. For the City of Los Angeles, that meant bringing order to one of the most sprawling digital environments in the country.

With more than 40 departments, thousands of endpoints, and countless systems across the city, its Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) faced a familiar problem: too many tools, too little visibility.

“You’re in this blind mode,” said Tim Lee, CISO of the City of Los Angeles. “Your cybersecurity program is not effective, and your budget is not defensible. And then you are wasting resources, too.”

To fix that, the city adopted Axonius to unify its asset data and uncover risks. The team found unmanaged devices, missing patches, and non-compliant assets in seconds, building a single source of truth across 87,000 assets.

That clarity reshaped how Los Angeles protects its critical infrastructure. Investigations that once took hours now take minutes, and leaders can make security decisions grounded in facts, not assumptions. With clarity, the team stopped reacting and started leading.

But gaining visibility is only the first step. Acting on it and managing the complexity that comes with it is the real challenge.

Conquering complexity through actionability

When teams finally see everything that matters, they inevitably uncover how complex their environments really are. Visibility brings clarity, but it also exposes the scale of what needs to be managed.

For Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), rapid growth came with layers of global complexity. With thousands of endpoints and dozens of tools across regions, visibility often slipped into fragmentation. Investigation times dragged on for hours.

“We had a lot of tools. A lot of assets. And a lot of spreadsheets,” said Brian Wendland, Security Operations Engineer at GLG.

Fragmented data and manual tracking slowed investigations and made collaboration across IT and security difficult. But with Axonius, GLG connected data from more than a dozen systems into one clear view. The team could finally see every asset, track agent deployments, and close compliance gaps instantly.

That clarity made complexity manageable. The team now moves faster, collaborates better, and makes confident decisions at every level.

Visibility reveals the problem. Action solves it.

Operating with full confidence

Once you conquer complexity, confidence follows. But confidence isn’t a finish line. It’s built through continuous action. For Khaleeji Bank, that meant turning mounting regulatory demands into an opportunity to strengthen its cybersecurity posture. 

Facing new cybersecurity mandates from the Central Bank of Bahrain, the bank needed a faster, more reliable way to prove compliance and strengthen its defenses. Manual reporting and fragmented asset data made every audit a sprint against the clock.

With Axonius, the team automated asset discovery, evidence collection, and audit reporting. The information security team gained autonomy, visibility, and speed, cutting incident response time while ensuring full regulatory alignment.

“Thanks to Axonius, we have made remarkable strides in enhancing our security measures,” said Yusuf Hasan Husain, Information Security Manager at Khaleeji Bank. “By leveraging this powerful solution, we have achieved a level of autonomy and control that is unparalleled. Our newfound empowerment has allowed us to establish an incredibly resilient security framework, free from external dependencies.”

Confidence, for Khaleeji, is the outcome of staying proactive. By acting on insight, controlling outcomes, and adapting as threats evolve, the team continues to operate with assurance no matter what comes next.

Join the actionability era

The City of Los Angeles, GLG, and Khaleeji Bank show that visibility is just the beginning. The real differentiator is action: knowing exactly what matters most in your environment and responding with precision.

That’s the shift defining cybersecurity today. Because in the end, success isn’t about what you can see. It’s about how confidently you can act on it.

Explore more customer stories and see how other organizations are using the Axonius Asset Cloud to move beyond visibility and into the actionability era.