Conifers opens Singapore data region for Asia-Pacific

Conifers has opened a data region in Singapore, giving security teams in Asia-Pacific a local data residency option.

The new regional infrastructure lets organisations in Asia-Pacific store and process security data in Singapore instead of sending it to another jurisdiction. The expansion is aimed at customers that must meet data residency and sovereignty requirements while keeping security operations local.

With the addition of Singapore, Conifers now offers data regions across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. This expands deployment options for customers using its CognitiveSOC platform, which supports security operations work including threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, investigation and remediation.

Data handling rules have become a growing issue for cybersecurity teams across the region. In several markets, regulations increasingly limit where sensitive information can be stored and processed, creating compliance challenges for companies that want to use cloud-based security tools.

The Singapore setup runs AI inference and data processing within the country on an Azure-native architecture, giving customers control over where their security data resides.

The region also includes the same controls used elsewhere on the platform, including tenant isolation, AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit. The service is aligned with GDPR and covered by SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications.

Customer data is not used to train models for other customers, and the institutional knowledge built by the system remains within each customer tenant.

Tom Findling, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Conifers, said the new region is intended to address a long-running tension between compliance and modern security operations.

"Security teams in Asia-Pacific face adversaries operating at machine speed, but many also have to keep their data inside national borders, and those two needs have often been in tension," said Tom Findling, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Conifers.

"A Singapore region means a bank or enterprise headquartered here can run a full agentic SOC without its data ever leaving the country," Findling said.

Customer view

Conifers cited demand from regional security providers and enterprises that need in-country processing for regulated environments. One such customer is ONESECURE Asia, which uses the platform in its security operations work.

"Conifers has transformed how we run our SOC. We now have agentic AI that acts with context and scales our expertise, and it is intelligence we can trust," said Edmund How, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ONESECURE Asia.

"A Singapore region means we can deliver that to our customers while keeping their data in-country, where regulators expect it to stay," How said.

Platform reach

CognitiveSOC works with existing security tools rather than requiring customers to replace them. The platform has more than 60 integrations across endpoint detection and response, identity, cloud, email and IT service management products.

According to Conifers, customers can onboard in as little as two to four hours. The company also said customers have reported up to an 87% reduction in investigation time compared with manual analysis.

The Singapore launch also reflects wider interest in so-called agentic security operations models, in which AI systems carry out parts of the investigative reasoning that would otherwise take up analysts' time. Conifers positions this approach as different from fixed-rule automation because software agents draw on evidence from multiple tools, form hypotheses and adjust an investigation as new information emerges.

That matters because many security teams face two pressures at once: attackers are using AI to increase the pace and scale of attacks, while employers continue to struggle to recruit and retain experienced analysts. In that environment, vendors are increasingly trying to show that AI systems can take on more of the alert triage and investigation burden without removing human oversight from decisions that carry operational or regulatory risk.

Conifers said its approach is built around transparency, auditability and governance, with the aim of helping regulated organisations use AI in security operations while keeping control of data and decision-making. The company now offers those capabilities through regional infrastructure in the United States, Europe and Singapore.