North Carolina’s public sector faces an evolving cybersecurity landscape that demands real-time visibility, coordinated defenses and trustworthy data to guide decision making.
The N.C. Department of Information Technology’s SecureNC program meets that challenge by enabling leaders to understand their risk posture and respond to threats rapidly.
SecureNC gives agencies accurate, real-time data and clear dashboards that strengthen trust, decision making and accountability. Powered by Tanium – a unified endpoint management and security platform – it delivers real-time visibility, threat detection, vulnerability management, asset inventory and compliance monitoring in one place. This integration helps organizations move from reactive security to a more proactive, preventive approach.
At the AI and Cybersecurity Symposium in Raleigh on March 25, State Chief Information Security Officer Bernice Russell-Bond highlighted how SecureNC is transforming cybersecurity operations.
“The Tanium platform enables you to act, and so that’s very important to have this continuous real-time information because we know things constantly change,” Russell-Bond said. “Having the ability to have different dashboards, different reporting, alerting – all of these capabilities really give you the chance to have information at your fingertips.”
By unifying IT operations and security, agencies can reduce software vulnerabilities, streamline endpoint management and replace multiple legacy tools with one integrated platform.
SecureNC also enables statewide risk dashboards that offer executives transparent insights into where cyber investments are most needed. With new capabilities like Guardian Spotlight to identify unsanctioned AI tools and mitigate shadow AI risks, SecureNC continues to evolve in alignment with emerging threats.
“I always laugh because people say security people are the ‘No’ people. I’m like no, we want to be the ‘Know’ people,” Russell-Bond said. “We have this data on the platform, and we know how to advise. We know how to be preventive and proactive.”
NCDIT provides Tanium at no cost to state agencies, local governments and K–12 schools, with onboarding currently prioritized for Tier 1 and Tier 2 local governments.
Visit the SecureNC Program webpage for more information on SecureNC and how to get started.