Lenovo Boosts Cyber Resilience as 90% of IT Leaders Face AI Threat Gaps

Lenovo expands its Security Services portfolio with an end-to-end cyber resiliency framework designed to simplify security operations, strengthen business continuity, and give organizations a single point of accountability as AI-driven threats become more sophisticated.

• AI Readiness: With 90% of IT leaders acknowledging gaps in their ability to defend against AI-driven threats, organizations face growing pressure to strengthen cyber resilience as AI adoption and digital workplace transformation accelerate.
• Unified Security: Lenovo's expanded Security Services portfolio brings devices, security technologies, expert managed services, and ecosystem partners together under a single operational model that can help cut system downtime by up to 50% and remediation costs by up to 40%.
• Stronger Control: New offerings including Security Services with Absolute and Lenovo ThinkShield TraceLock aim to improve resilience across distributed workforces while extending visibility and control over devices that may be lost, stolen, disconnected, or otherwise beyond traditional endpoint security tools.

Cybersecurity teams today are hardly short on tools. The bigger challenge is making sure those tools, systems, devices, and security partners work together when an actual threat emerges. As organizations across the Philippines embrace AI and transform their digital workplaces, Lenovo is responding to this growing complexity with an expanded Security Services portfolio built around cyber resilience and a single point of accountability.

The urgency is becoming clearer as AI adoption accelerates. According to recent research cited by Lenovo, 90% of IT leaders acknowledge gaps in their ability to defend against AI-driven threats. This comes as Philippine enterprises across banking, healthcare, retail, business process outsourcing, government, and the public sector continue to modernize their operations.

Cyber Resilience Becomes a Business Priority

For organizations in the Philippines, cybersecurity is increasingly tied not only to IT protection but also to business continuity, data protection, and regulatory compliance.

The Department of Information and Communications Technology's National Cybersecurity Plan 2023-2028 identifies cyber resilience as a national priority. At the same time, the National Privacy Commission requires personal information controllers and processors to maintain security incident management policies and submit annual security incident reports.

The challenge, however, is that growing security investments do not necessarily eliminate operational complexity. Security operations can remain distributed and siloed across multiple vendors, technologies, and teams. When an incident happens, coordinating all these moving parts can make response and recovery more difficult.

Lenovo is addressing this through a revamped cyber resiliency framework and expanded end-to-end security offerings designed to reduce security complexity. According to the company, the approach can help organizations cut system downtime by up to 50% and lower remediation costs by up to 40%.

Rakshit Ghura, Vice President and General Manager, Digital Workplace Solutions, Lenovo, said, "Security leaders don't need more tools. They need greater confidence that their people, devices, and data remain protected, and clear accountability when issues arise."

Ghura added, "When cyber incidents occur, organizations are often left coordinating across multiple vendors, platforms, and support teams. By bringing trusted devices, leading security technologies, expert managed services, and market-leading alliances together under a single operational model, Lenovo helps customers reduce complexity while strengthening resilience, so they can focus on their business and serving customers."

Addressing the Philippine Cybersecurity Landscape

The expanded framework also reflects the challenges facing organizations locally as AI becomes more deeply integrated into business operations.

Michael Ngan, President and General Manager, Lenovo Philippines, said, "As AI adoption accelerates across the Philippines, organizations are facing a new reality where cyber resilience is no longer just about having more security tools, but about ensuring that people, devices, data, and operations remain protected even when threats become more sophisticated."

He added, "For local enterprises, especially those in sectors such as banking, healthcare, government, education, and business process outsourcing, the ability to respond quickly, maintain continuity, and recover with confidence is becoming critical. Lenovo's end-to-end cyber resiliency framework helps organizations simplify security operations by bringing trusted devices, leading security technologies, expert services, and ecosystem partners together through a single accountable model."

Lenovo's approach has received industry recognition, including recognition in the 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards across cyber resilience, application security, and AI security categories.

According to ISG Research, Lenovo Security Services combines hardware trust, multi-layered protection, and AI-enabled operations within a unified framework aimed at helping organizations improve resilience, maintain business continuity, and reduce operational disruption.

Managed End-to-End Resilience

A major part of the portfolio expansion is Security Services with Absolute, a fully managed end-to-end resilience offering created to help organizations maintain critical security controls across distributed workforces without placing additional demands on internal IT teams.

The service enables essential security controls to automatically recover when disrupted. This reduces the need for manual intervention while helping organizations maintain more consistent protection across their environments.

Supporting the service is Lenovo's global 24x7x365 Security Operations Center or SOC. Security specialists continuously monitor end-to-end activity and help organizations identify and respond to emerging threats.

By combining firmware-level resilience, managed operations, and expert security oversight, Lenovo aims to reduce the operational burden placed on internal teams while improving overall resiliency.

ThinkShield TraceLock Extends Device Control

Lenovo is also introducing Lenovo ThinkShield TraceLock, powered by Absolute Security, as another layer of protection for organizations dealing with distributed devices.

Traditional endpoint security typically relies on an active operating system or network connection. Once a device is switched off or disconnected, however, it can become a blind spot for conventional management and security tools.

ThinkShield TraceLock addresses this problem through built-in cellular connectivity that allows IT teams to remotely locate, wake, and wipe devices. This can help organizations protect sensitive information when hardware is lost, stolen, disconnected, or potentially compromised.

The solution is designed to support compliance efforts and help maintain control over corporate data even when endpoints are offline. This can be particularly relevant to highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, government, business process outsourcing, and the public sector.

ThinkShield TraceLock will be available beginning July 1 on select ThinkPad devices.

One Framework for Cyber Resilience

Rather than measuring cybersecurity strength simply by how many tools an organization has deployed, Lenovo's approach focuses on how effectively different security capabilities work together.

Its end-to-end cyber resiliency framework covers Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, Extended Detection and Response, Visibility and Risk Management, and Security for AI. The framework also integrates with technology providers including Absolute, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, SentinelOne, and Veeam.

Lenovo's AI-enabled SOC serves as part of the coordinated operational model, bringing together ongoing protection, end-to-end resilience, and recovery within a single accountable relationship rather than leaving customers to coordinate separately with multiple providers during security incidents.

As AI continues to reshape the workplace and introduce new cybersecurity challenges, that unified approach could become increasingly important. For Philippine organizations balancing digital transformation, compliance, business continuity, and evolving threats, reducing fragmentation may prove just as important as adding new security technologies.