ManageEngine uses AI and explainable security to stay ahead of zero-day threats

SUBHALAKSHMI GANAPATHY
CHIEF IT SECURITY EVANGELIST, MANAGEENGINE

“Zero-day attacks exemplify the unpredictability of modern cyber threats, exploiting vulnerabilities faster than traditional defenses can respond. At ManageEngine, we believe combating such threats requires a shift from reactive defense to proactive intelligence. With Log360, our AI-driven security platform, we embed this philosophy at the core. Zia Insights, our generative AI layer, transforms overwhelming log data into contextual understanding, providing concise summaries that highlight who’s involved, how activities connect, and how events align with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.

Our UEBA engine continuously learns normal behaviour across users and devices, detecting subtle deviations such as unusual logons or data transfers long before traditional systems react. Adaptive, machine-learning-powered alert thresholds reduce noise and improve accuracy, ensuring teams focus on genuinely suspicious activity.

Together, these capabilities form an adaptive defense system that anticipates emerging threats, combining AI’s predictive power with human expertise to stay ahead of zero-day attacks. At the same time, we prioritize privacy, ethics, and compliance. All AI models and insights are trained exclusively on individual customer data, with no cross-sharing, adhering to global frameworks like GDPR and India’s DPDP. Customer data is encrypted at rest while enabling AI-driven threat detection. We foster human-AI collaboration, pairing AI’s speed and scale with domain expertise to validate findings and minimize false positives. Using Explainable AI, we ensure stakeholders understand decisions, building transparency, trust, and accountability, empowering organizations to act confidently while maintaining ethical and regulatory standards.”