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title: "Building the future of security with NAB with Lakewatch"
description: "National Australia Bank (NAB) is working with Databricks as one of five design partners for Lakewatch, an Open Security Lakehouse intended for modern security operations. NAB, part of Australia’s critical infrastructure, ingests more than 30TB of security data daily while confronting AI-enabled threats, expanding digital services, and growing third-party integrations. The partnership brings NAB’s threat-informed cyber-defense experience to a platform designed to unify signals across environments, apply advanced analytics and AI-driven workflows, generate higher-confidence insights, and automate response actions. Lakewatch is presented as an open, composable, AI-native foundation built natively on the Lakehouse for organizations facing constantly evolving threats, supporting enterprise-wide correlation, proactive threat hunting, detection, monitoring, and response at scale."
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# Building the future of security with NAB with Lakewatch

[Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks) · Taylor Kain · Sep 18, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

National Australia Bank (NAB) is working with Databricks as one of five design partners for Lakewatch, an Open Security Lakehouse intended for modern security operations. NAB, part of Australia’s critical infrastructure, ingests more than 30TB of security data daily while confronting AI-enabled threats, expanding digital services, and growing third-party integrations. The partnership brings NAB’s threat-informed cyber-defense experience to a platform designed to unify signals across environments, apply advanced analytics and AI-driven workflows, generate higher-confidence insights, and automate response actions. Lakewatch is presented as an open, composable, AI-native foundation built natively on the Lakehouse for organizations facing constantly evolving threats, supporting enterprise-wide correlation, proactive threat hunting, detection, monitoring, and response at scale.

## Context

NAB is part of Australia’s critical infrastructure and describes its security work as a national responsibility. Its team is threat-informed and studies adversaries, tactics, and techniques while ingesting more than 30TB of security data each day. NAB’s experience as a large financial institution informs Lakewatch’s development as one of five design partners.

## Approach / What changed

Lakewatch is being developed as a turnkey security-operations workflow built natively on the Lakehouse. The stated approach combines enterprise-wide signal correlation, advanced analytics, proactive threat hunting, and AI-enabled workflows spanning ingestion, detection, monitoring, and response. NAB contributes operational cyber-defense expertise and feedback on security gaps to shape the platform.

## Takeaways

- NAB ingests more than 30TB of security data each day, with data volume increasing as digital services, third-party integrations, and detection granularity expand.
- Lakewatch is designed to correlate signals across environments, apply advanced analytics and AI-driven workflows, generate higher-confidence insights, and automate response actions.
- NAB is one of five design partners, contributing financial-sector cyber-defense experience to an open, composable, AI-native security-operations platform.

## FAQ

### Why is NAB involved in Lakewatch’s development?

NAB is one of five design partners and brings operational cyber-defense experience from a highly targeted financial-institution environment. Its security team is also helping identify security gaps and shape the platform for future cyber defenders.

### What capabilities is Lakewatch intended to provide?

Lakewatch is intended to provide advanced analytics and enterprise-wide signal correlation, proactive threat hunting across high-volume security data, and AI-enabled cyber defense. Its stated workflow covers ingestion, detection, monitoring, and response.

### Why does NAB’s security-data volume matter?

NAB ingests more than 30TB of security data each day, and that volume continues to accelerate. The scale creates an opportunity to unify signals and apply analytics and AI-driven workflows to improve correlation, insight confidence, and response speed.

**Tags:** [AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai), [Architecture](https://yomu.fyi/topic/architecture), [Data Analytics](https://yomu.fyi/topic/data-analytics), [Security](https://yomu.fyi/topic/security)

- Source: [Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/blog/building-future-security-nab-lakewatch)
- Source URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/building-future-security-nab-lakewatch
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-17T14:13:05.024Z

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