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TSMCTSMC Brings Security Telemetry onto Datadog
TSMC, an information technology organization in Taiwan, uses Log Management from Datadog to support detection engineering for detection engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Risk and compliance | Security telemetry can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
| Risk and compliance | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for security telemetry |
| Capability | Detection engineering stays visible to adjacent teams through Log Management |
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Inside TSMC, detection engineering used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in information technology groups working out of Taiwan. Detection engineers needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
TSMC uses Log Management from Datadog as the working layer for security telemetry. Datadog is an observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, and security signals for cloud applications. The practical change is simple: detection engineering has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What TSMC gets from Datadog is a durable place to run detection engineering and a way for detection engineers to see the same security telemetry at the same time.
