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Trust and governance for AI in production, delivered in Japan

// The Japan delivery problem

Production AI raises the trust bar, and Japan's attack surface is expanding faster than security teams can track

By industry estimates, enterprises here can see only about a third of the connected devices actually on their networks. IoT sensors, OT controllers, network appliances, and unmanaged endpoints form a shadow infrastructure where most breaches start, and every AI system on the network inherits that exposure. Agent-based EDR and vulnerability scanners cannot see this layer. Japanese manufacturers and critical infrastructure operators are looking hard at vendors who can close the gap with vulnerability data covering 874 device manufacturers.

Meanwhile, brand impersonation through email spoofing has become one of the main attack vectors aimed at enterprises here, and generative AI has made convincing spoofs cheap to produce at volume. DMARC enforcement is now a regulatory expectation across financial services and government procurement, yet most Japanese enterprises still run email authentication in passive monitoring mode (p=none). That leaves the market for protocol-level DMARC enforcement wide open. One platform in our portfolio serves over 92,000 organizations globally and reaches enforcement far faster than a manual project.

We license and support cybersecurity vendors who close both gaps: agentless device intelligence for IoT and OT, and automated DMARC enforcement at scale. Together they form the trust layer that lets enterprises here put AI into production and govern it. We handle the local delivery side: channel reach into the MSSPs and SIs serving the country's critical infrastructure operators, and customer support in-country when an incident demands it.

// How we deliver in Japan

How we deliver cybersecurity in Japan

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Attack Surface Discovery

Agentless scanning reveals every connected device across the customer's environment, including IoT, OT, network equipment, and shadow IT, surfacing the assets that traditional IT tools never see.

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Risk Scoring and Prioritization

Each discovered device receives a contextual attack surface score based on vendor sourced vulnerability data from 874 device manufacturers, not crowdsourced guesses.

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Remediation and Enforcement

Vendor-provided patches, firmware updates, and workarounds, each scored by the risk reduction it delivers. For email, automated DMARC enforcement reaches full protection far faster than a manual approach.

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Continuous Monitoring and Compliance

Ongoing asset discovery, vulnerability tracking, and compliance reporting. We integrate with the Japanese-language SOC, hand off to the MSSP channel where that applies, and deploy on-premise or in a private cloud in trusted, in-country data centers for regulated industries.

// Capabilities

Core capabilities

Agentless Device Intelligence

Security assessment for every connected device without deploying an agent. That matters in OT environments, where uptime is nonnegotiable and installing an agent is not an option.

IoT, OT, and ICS Security

Vulnerability detection and attack surface scoring across industrial control systems, SCADA, building automation, and factory-floor devices. These are the systems legacy EDR cannot see.

Zero Trust Email Authentication

Automated DMARC, SPF, and DKIM enforcement that stops phishing and brand impersonation at the protocol level, with patented Instant SPF and recipient-side owner discovery (RUF+) that finds the shadow IT most projects miss. It is the only FedRAMP authorized DMARC vendor, trusted by over 92,000 organizations globally.

Vendor Sourced Vulnerability Data

Vulnerability intelligence sourced directly from 874 device manufacturers rather than aggregated from public databases, so risk scoring and remediation guidance are accurate.

Compliance Reporting

Automated reporting for APPI, financial services regulations, and critical infrastructure requirements.

// Market Trend

Attack Surface Expanding Faster Than Defenses

IoT and OT devices are multiplying faster than security coverage across manufacturing and critical infrastructure. The average Japanese enterprise carries 3x more connected devices than its security team actually tracks. Agentless device intelligence and automated vulnerability management are climbing to board-level priorities.

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// Sovereign in Japan

Keep security operations, and the data they touch, in country.

DeviceTotal assesses device risk with no agent phoning a foreign cloud, and Valimail authenticates email through a connector that holds no personal data.

See the sovereignty approach
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Agentless device and OT risk assessment, with no agent exporting device data to an external cloud.

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Email authentication whose connector holds zero personal data, aligned to APPI and GDPR.

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Full security visibility, with the sensitive signal kept under domestic control.

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