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Security & Governance

Transform your organization with security, governance and accountability built in.

Faster AI scaling.
Bolder data transformation.
Move faster, with managed risk.

Every cloud, data and AI initiative expands the identities, systems, APIs and data sources requiring protection. Employees may adopt unapproved tools, agents may access data without enterprise-grade identity and oversight controls, and pilots may go undocumented. In regulated industries, these gaps create compliance, operational and reputational risks that increasingly demand board-level attention.

While regulatory and sector requirements vary, they increasingly share a common expectation: organizations must be able to demonstrate visibility, accountability and control over the systems that access sensitive data or support consequential decisions.

1 in 5

data breaches now involves shadow AI: unsanctioned tools employees use without IT oversight.

IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, 2025

$4.44M

the global average cost of a data breach in 2025. Shadow AI incidents cost $670,000 more.

IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, 2025

How we can help

Security and governance built into every layer

We embed security and governance across cloud platforms, data estates, business applications, integrations and AI solutions. Architecture, identity, compliance controls and operating practices are designed in from day one, protecting what you operate today while preparing you for emerging technologies and regulatory requirements.
Secure your cloud foundation

We design cloud environments around zero trust principles, identity governance, network segmentation, workload protection and continuous threat detection. Using Microsoft security capabilities such as Defender, Sentinel and Entra, we help establish consistent controls across Azure, hybrid and connected environments. Our cloud security assessment gives you an expert, independent view of your current security posture with a prioritized roadmap for remediation.
Govern AI and agents with confidence

As AI agents scale, oversight must scale with them. We establish governance across the full AI lifecycle from use-case approval and model selection through deployment, monitoring and retirement. This includes agent inventories, identity and access controls, human approval points, explainability, testing, audit trails and ongoing performance and risk monitoring.
Create trust in your data, privacy and sovereignty

We implement governance across your data estate using Microsoft technologies and proven information management frameworks: knowing what data you hold, where it lives, who can access it, and how it’s used. Built to meet sector regulations and data residency requirements across the markets you operate in, such as GDPR and the EU AI Act.
Empower teams to innovate responsibly

We establish the environments, policies, identity controls, data-loss-prevention standards and application lifecycle practices required to scale Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Power Platform and Copilot solutions securely. This helps business teams innovate without creating unmanaged applications, data exposure or shadow automation.
Strengthen operational resilience over time

Security is not a project with an end date. We provide ongoing monitoring, posture management and operational support to help detect threats, address vulnerabilities and maintain control as your environment evolves. We also help strengthen resilience through incident planning, recovery design and continuous improvement.

Proven in environments where security failure has real consequences.

Hitachi Solutions holds Microsoft’s Security Solution Partner Designation, with Security Specializations in Hybrid Cloud Security, Threat Protection, Identity and Access Management, and Information Protection and Governance — each requiring third-party audits, certified skills, and proven customer outcomes.

Our regulated-sector experience spans government, healthcare, financial services, energy, and transport, including work in some of the highest-classification security environments. We hold ISO certifications in Quality, Environment, Service, Business Continuity, Information Security, and Privacy Management, plus Cyber Essentials Plus certification.

Our Microsoft partnership

Life-critical infrastructure requires a security-first approach.

The British Heart Foundation’s Circuit is the UK’s national defibrillator network, used in real time by all 14 ambulance services. When Hitachi Solutions took over the platform, the first step was a security review. We identified and addressed vulnerabilities, delivered security enhancements and modernized the architecture, all without disrupting a system that cannot afford downtime. The platform now tracks over 100,000 defibrillators. Security here wasn’t an item on a project plan. It was the condition for everything else.

Proven results

British Heart Foundation

Right from the start, we recognized in Hitachi Solutions a potential partner that would listen to us and really recognize the value of what we were trying to achieve

Alex Duncan, CTO at BHF

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