Endpoints unmanaged. Email and web unfiltered.
No proactive security.
The basics in order: every attack path covered
A large association, around 2,200 workplaces, with the personal data of its members to protect. The basics were not in order: endpoints unmanaged, email and web unfiltered. We covered every attack path, endpoint, email, web and cloud access, on a zero-trust architecture, and have managed it ever since.
The challenge
No proactive security. The doors stood open.
A large association, around 2,200 workplaces, with the personal data of its members to protect. The basics were not in order, while cloud, mobile and remote work expanded the attack surface and ransomware spread.
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Endpoints unmanaged. Laptops, mobile and servers out of management, the attack surface unwatched.
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Email and web unfiltered. The two most-used attack paths lay open: phishing and malware came in unhindered.
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Nothing proactive. Security was reactive; there was no layer that prevented attacks or saw them early.
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Privacy and compliance at stake. Member data had to be protected and regulation required demonstrable measures, which were not there.
It was not the advanced threat that posed the risk. It was the open doors no one was watching.
The approach
First the basics. One layer, no loose patches.
No separate tools side by side, but one architecture that covers every attack path. With zero trust as the principle and privacy by design from the drawing board.
Risk assessment and roadmap
The attack paths and the risk mapped, and set where the basics stand and where they need to go.
Architecture on zero-trust principles
Network and security functions brought together into one integrated cloud-security setup, instead of separate point solutions in silos. The move to a full SASE architecture and preventing data loss were prepared for future requirements. Privacy by design.
Every attack path covered
Endpoint, email, web and cloud access: prevention to stop attacks, plus detection and response to step in early.
Managed and owned
Run as a managed service, with monthly reporting and steering information, and ownership of security as a product, direction and prioritisation, on our side, at senior level.
The solution
Every door closed, and kept watched.
What stands now: one security layer across every attack path, proactive and continuously managed by us. A foundation ready for expansion, and one the later work built on.
Laptops, mobile and servers under management: attack surface reduced, attacks prevented and seen early.
Inbound and outbound traffic filtered: antimalware, antispam, content filtering and encryption.
Safe browsing via a secure web gateway: isolation, malware inspection and sandboxing.
Visibility and grip on cloud services: shadow IT in view and data protected.
“For the first time the doors are closed, and someone keeps watching them.”
The result
From open doors to a watched foundation.
- -Endpoints unmanaged, email and web unfiltered
- -No proactive layer; reactive and exposed
- -Member privacy and compliance insufficiently assured
- -Separate tools, no coherent security
- ✓Every attack path covered: endpoint, email, web and cloud access, in one setup.
- ✓Proactive: prevent and see early, instead of waiting.
- ✓Continuously managed, with product ownership on our side, and monthly steering information.
- ✓A foundation ready for expansion, and one the later work built on.
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