Helping states monitor and respond across multiple, agency-specific security tools
nuHarbor, a leading managed cybersecurity services provider, is expanding its Splunk services portfolio to include a new Managed Extended Detection and Response (mXDR) offering, designed specifically for state and local government organizations managing security operations across a mix of platforms, agencies, and legacy tools.
Most state governments don’t run a single, uniform security stack. Individual agencies procure their own SIEM, EDR, and identity tools on their own timelines and budgets, leaving state security teams with visibility gaps between systems that were never designed to talk to each other. nuHarbor’s new Splunk mXDR offering is built to close that gap — centralizing detection, triage, and response across a state’s existing technology investments rather than requiring agencies to standardize on new tools before they can be protected.
“States don’t have the luxury of a clean-sheet security architecture — they inherit 20 years of agency-by-agency purchasing decisions across dozens of individual agencies, each with its own procurement cycle,” said Justin Fimlaid, CEO of nuHarbor. “The security industry has to meet states where their technology actually is, not where a vendor wishes it was.”
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The offering is built around ease of adoption for lean state security teams. Approved response playbooks can automatically carry out routine actions — containment, firewall changes, ticketing, notifications — without waiting on an analyst to be at a keyboard. For agencies that want a person in the loop on higher-stakes decisions, a designated approver can review and authorize the action before it’s taken.
“Using Splunk as the aggregation point gives a state CISO one consistent view and one accountable response team, even across systems that were never built to talk to each other,” said Kyle Smith, COO of nuHarbor. “Agencies get the speed of automation on routine work, while still keeping a person in the loop on the decisions that carry real risk.”
Benefits
- 24/7 monitoring and response across multiple ingested tool sets, not a single vendor’s ecosystem
- Native support for leading EDR platforms, including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender
- Automated response playbooks for routine containment and remediation actions
- Mobile push-notification approvals, so designated approvers can authorize sensitive actions from anywhere
- A co-managed model that keeps state security teams in control of policy and escalation decisions
- Support for phased onboarding, so agencies can be brought in over time rather than all at once – a practical fit for states building toward whole-of-state coverage without waiting on full, one-time funding
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