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Fortra's Security Success Stories

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From infrastructure protection and data security to managed security services, Fortra is strengthening the cybersecurity landscape one use case at a time. We create a more secure environment. You create a simpler, stronger security stack by leveraging the benefits of a single-vendor suite.

Cybersecurity Use Cases by Solution

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Managed Detection & Response | Data Protection | Digital Risk Protection | Secure File Transfer | Email & Phishing | Security Awareness | Vulnerability Management | Integrity Management | Offensive Security | Automation 

Cybersecurity Use Cases by Industry

Partner with Fortra and know that the protection your industry needs is the protection it receives. Discover how we've tackled your industry's toughest cybersecurity challenges.

Financial Services | Government & Public Sector | Manufacturing | Retail | Healthcare

Managed Detection & Response (MDR)

Ease the operational burden of day-to-day responsibilities by outsourcing a part of your cybersecurity needs. Managed Detection and Response (MDR) reduces the likelihood and impact of a cyberattack with comprehensive coverage for public clouds, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments, with 24/7 threat protection delivered by security experts.

Industry: Transportation

Scenario: RunBuggy is an open car transportation marketplace that uses technology to simplify the process of connecting car shippers with car haulers in real-time. As a very lean team, they needed to adhere to numerous compliance regulations while keeping up with the needs of the business and juggling 24/7 threat monitoring.

Challenges:

  • Slow incident alerting and response
  • Inconsistent app availability and performance
  • Unable to throw tools to achieve outcomes with a small security team

Solution: Fortra’s Alert Logic Managed Detection & Response

Results:

  • Drastically decreased ticket timelines
  • Improved customer satisfaction by ensuring consistent app performance
  • Achieved 24/7 managed security while freeing up resources for higher value projects

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Industry: Healthcare

Scenario: Iodine Software is an enterprise AI company dedicated to using its one-of-a-kind technology to solve hard, evergreen challenges inherent in U.S. hospitals. These include automating complex clinical tasks to scale valuable resources, generating insights, and ultimately empowering intelligent care.

Challenges:

  • Industry highly targeted by bad actors
  • Unable to build a 24/7 in-house SOC
  • Insufficient resources to properly address security events

Solution: Fortra’s Alert Logic Managed Detection & Response

Results:

  • Enabled them to prove compliance
  • Gained 24/7 monitoring without having to build their own SOC
  • Gained HITRUST certification for their systems

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Industry: Retail

Scenario: Since 1966, Biscuitville Fresh Southern has been a family-owned company known for serving up authentic Southern breakfast food. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, Biscuitville has more than 80 corporate-owned restaurant locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. The company has experienced unprecedented growth in the last several years, including a new distribution center and opening locations in a third state.

Challenges:

  • Need for threat protection and detection
  • PCI DSS 4.0 compliance
  • Supplement in-house security staff

Solution: Fortra's Alert Logic MDR

Results:

  • Seamless data ingestion from multiple sources
  • Hands-on, collaborative security partnership
  • ASV scans and log monitoring for PCI DSS compliance

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Data Protection

Protect sensitive information across your enterprise from malicious or unintentional loss. Identify and classify data with visual and metadata labels. Apply the right security policy to support compliance initiatives, and enable secure collaboration with external parties.

Industry: Manufacturing

Scenario: A large manufacturing and consumer goods company recently experienced a costly insider-driven data breach. With over 60,000 employees and 7,000 partners worldwide, the company fell prey to attack when a research scientist left the company and took over 20,000 sensitive documents (worth $400M USD) with them. The company IP bears a sustainable competitive advantage, and the incident spurred the organization to revisit their data security strategy.

Challenges:

  • Unwilling to sacrifice operational efficiency for security during the holiday season
  • No real-time data classification or role-based access policies
  • Required secure collaboration with international third parties across the Americas, India, China, and Europe

Solution: Fortra’s Digital Guardian

Results:

  • Resolved primary security issue (sensitive IP now available only on DG secured devices) and automated content and context data classification
  • Achieved centralized visibility of all sensitive data workflows and policy enforcement worldwide
  • Secured collaboration with 3rd party partners without losing IP

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Industry: Critical National Infrastructure

Scenario: A large natural gas producer in North America with 14,000 workstations needed to securely share sensitive data with its ecosystem of hundreds of business partners. Data included seismic testing, geological modeling applications, investment estimates, and anticipated energy output.

Challenges:

  • Remote virtual Citrix servers used to access corporate data and network resources by partners
  • High labor costs from customizing each contractor’s application
  • IPs at risk from sophisticated users due to weak existing controls
  • Privileged users had physical access to hardware running Citrix

Solution: Fortra’s Digital Guardian

Results:

  • Automatic encryption of critical files when data is in motion via email or approved removable device
  • Over $4M in saved costs largely from eliminating the need for application customization
  • Eliminated unauthorized executables with access control
  • Simple deployment of DG agents installed on Citrix virtual systems enabled data policy enforcement at the endpoint without impacting collaboration and productivity

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Industry: Technology

Scenario: A global leader in workforce management needed to quickly implement a data protection program to secure source code accessed by remote engineering, as well as protect Intellectual Property (IP) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) organization wide. The company owned over 7,500 endpoints consisting of Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Challenges:

  • Lack of end-to-end visibility
  • Lean information technology and information security staff with a requirement to keep overhead low
  • No granular data protection controls to secure source code

Solution: Fortra’s Digital Guardian

Results:

  • Simple purchase and rapid deployment
  • Instant visibility into all data movement from endpoint to cloud
  • Digital Guardian, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), means no on-site hardware or software to support Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

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Industry: Healthcare

Scenario: A leader in healthcare analytics has a geographically distributed workforce of 1000 users and employees regularly handle sensitive PII and Protected Health Information (PHI) such as patient diagnosis, claim information, and clinical trial data. Several business partners wanted to ensure a stronger level of protection after multiple high profile cyberattacks and requested DLP and EDR solutions on a highly aggressive timeline.

Challenges:

  • Scarce security resources
  • Multiple data formats and protection requirements
  • Regulatory and stakeholder requirements

Solution: Fortra’s Digital Guardian Managed DLP & EDR

Results:

  • Policies and alerts managed by Digital Guardian team of experienced security professionals and minimal impact to existing staff
  • Visibility of all sensitive data and control over its use
  • Satisfied compliance and stakeholder requirements

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Industry: Media and Entertainment

Scenario: Pokémon relies on high levels of third-party collaboration to bring new content to market, and their IP consists of animated TV series, movies, home entertainment, and websites. These factors, combined with their fast rise in popularity, resulted in an influx of PII to protect.

Challenge:

  • Limited information security team
  • Insecure access to collateral 9rich media files, game designs, and new character ideas) accessed by third parties
  • Inability to slow production for security considerations as production cycles already run long

Solution: Fortra’s Vera Digital Rights Management

Results:

  • Simplified security management: security team has visibility and control over data wherever it travels
  • Sensitive information secured from leakage, regardless how or where it’s shared
  • Seamless integration with cloud collaboration doesn’t slow down productivity and workflows

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Industry: Insurance

Scenario: A large global insurance provider manages accounts and processes claims for over 90 million customers across 60 countries. The data they handle contains PII and PHI, which makes them a highly attractive target for bad actors, and they must adhere to strict regulations.

Challenges:

  • Heterogeneous environment that includes multiple storage, collaboration, and communication tools
  • Maintaining established workflows with Box, OneDrive, and SharePoint without interruption
  • Complex claims-processing workflows, which include internal and external global stakeholders

Solution: Fortra’s Vera Digital Rights Management

Results:

  • DRM platform seamlessly integrates into storage, collaboration and communications tools
  • Data loss prevention no longer inhibit workflows for Box, OneDrive, and SharePoint
  • Streamlined workflows: Granular policies travel with the files and can be updated in real-time; state, national, and international regulatory mandates met

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Industry: Manufacturing

Scenario: A large semiconductor company with 2,000 employees and multiple offices experienced a period of rapid growth. To account for it, they relied on fast innovation to stay competitive and recruited highly talented people from a pool of global candidates. However, additional security implements are needed to continue to scale safely.

Challenges:

  • Securely sharing various file types with internal stakeholders and third-party partners
  • Identifying and protecting the Shadow IT that emerged in response to rapid growth
  • Protecting PII of new hires
  • Adherence to local and international compliance mandates

Solution: Fortra’s Vera Digital Rights Management

Results:

  • All file types protected wherever they travel, inside or outside the network
  • Secure collaboration enabled with internal teams and 3rd party stakeholders
  • New hire PII protected
  • Local and international compliance mandates met

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Industry:  Insurance

Scenario:  A global insurance and reinsurance provider with over 1200 employees across 11 countries needed to ensure proper safeguards and handling of data for the employees and 3rd party partners. To do this they needed to implement a data classification solution as part of their data protection strategy.

Challenges:

  • Ensure protection of sensitive client data
  • Geographically dispersed workforce
  • Compliance mandates across several countries including GDPR and NYDFS

Solution: Fortra’s Boldon James

Results:

  • Successful global adoption
  • Classification consistency across the organization
  • Met each country’s compliance requirements for data protection

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Industry: Logistics

Scenario:  CTS Logistics Group provides freight forwarding and logistics services around the world. Within the market that CTS works in, sensitive information falling into the wrong hands could be hugely damaging for all parties involved. Therefore, implementing a data classification solution was a no-brainer next step.

Challenges:

  • Meeting multiple compliance mandates and policies including:
    • GDPR
    • Government Security Classification (GSC)
    • Cyber Essential Plus accreditation

Solution: Fortra’s Boldon James

Results:

  • Successfully met all mandates
  • Improved security culture

Industry: Government

Scenario: With national defense and international security a top priority in the current climate, ensuring emails and documents are handled properly is extremely important. As the world's most security -concious organizations, the military are leaders in setting new standards for information security around the globe.

Challenges:

  • The two classification solutions they were using proved to be inadequate for their needs
  • Needed to integrate seamlessly into existing infrastructure based on Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office 

Solution: Fortra's Titus

Results:

  • Enabeled consistent labeling on email and Microsoft office documents
  • Reinforced the value of data and how it should be handled

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Industry: Telecommunications

Scenario: Turkcell is the leading communications, technology, and mobile phone operating company in Turkey, with over 39 million subscribers. Turkcell is a Fortune 2000 company, and covers approximately 83% of the Turkish population through its 3G and 99% through its 2G technology supported network.

Challenges:

  • Needed to ensure employees handle information appropriately and prevent accidental leakage
  • Document were dalayed is being transmitted or were not sent at all due to pending review

Solution: Fortra’s Titus

Results:

  • Employees empowered to classify documents in a simple and non-intrusive way
  • Enabled documents to be transmitted or blocked with higher accuracy

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Digital Risk Protection

Safeguard critical digital assets through expert-curated threat intelligence and complete mitigation against brand impersonation, data leakage, social media threats, account takeover, and other digital risks.

Industry: Financial Services

Scenario: This large credit union was dealing with malicious actors who were creating emails that looked like they came from a C-Level executive requesting approval of wire transfer of varying amounts.

Challenges: Protect employees from being tricked into phishing campaigns from emails that look like they originate from an executive.

Solution: Fortra's PhishLabs

Results: The PhishLabs team identified the malicious email, the users that received the meail, and dozens of IP addresses associated with the campaign and took them all offline.

Industry: Financial Services

Scenario: This large credit union was having challenges identifying threats outside of theit own network. As a financial institution they are a constant target. Malicious actors woudl constantly create look-alike websites to trick users into entering their credentials.

Challenges: Need to protect customers from look-alike websites used by malicious actors.

Solution: Fortra's PhishLabs

Results:

  • PhishLabs found look-alike websites and had them taken down immediaately on behalf of the Credit Union
  • PhishLabs also identified a number of registered look-alike domains, and once an MX record was assigned, they wourked with the registrar to immeidately mitigate the threat 

Industry: Ecommerce Retailer

Scenario: This electronics retailer is a global brand that sells and ships products globally. Malicious actors create faudulent websites to trick victims into entering their credit card information in exchange for the product during the busy holiday buying season.

Challenges: 

  • Need to protect the brand reputation of the company
  • Security staff is overextended during the busy season and doesn't have resources to properly investigate every look-alike case

Solution: Fortra's PhishLabs

Results: The PhishLabs team continuously monitors and finds fraudulent domains and has them taken offline with minimal engagement from the retailer.

Secure File Transfer

Simplify, secure, and automate enterprise file transfer through a single intuitive interface that enables employees, partners, and customers to move data easily without the need for programming skills.

GoAnywhere Forwards HIPAA Compliance

Industry: Healthcare

Scenario: Southeastern Health, a non-profit healthcare system in North Carolina, has been serving the community for seventy years. Providing such services as cardiology, neurology, general surgery, and pediatrics, they decided it was time to upgrade from less-secure FTP methods to a high-caliber MFT solution.

Challenges:

  • Providing patient privacy
  • Supporting HIPAA requirements
  • Transferring files securely and accurately
  • Streamlining the file transfer process
  • Saving time and money

Solution: Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT

Results:

  • Secured patient privacy with encryption
  • Supported HIPAA compliance requirements
  • Secure, automated file transfer initiatives
  • Provided ease of use and “the [Fortra] support team is a huge strength”
  • Faster than previous FTP solution and economical

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Email Security & Anti-Phishing

Keep emails, brands, and data protected from Business Email Compromise (BEC) and phishing attacks. Reduce the chance of cyberattacks starting with malicious inbound email campaigns and prevent accidental data loss.

Fortune 100 Eliminates Imposters with Agari

Industry: Technology

Scenario: A Fortune 100 company needed to clamp down on the number of social engineering attacks levelled at its employees. Even though internal cybersecurity architecture may be strong, what is often harder to protect is the subtle attacks that slip under the surface. Executives were being impersonated online and employees were getting phished.

Challenges:

  • Business email compromise and advanced email phishing attack through executive impersonation
  • Brand domain abuse, including brand spoofing and executive impersonation

Solution: Fortra’s Agari DMARC Protection and Fortra’s Agari Phishing Defense

Results:

  • Granular email gateway data for metric-driven defense
  • Significantly reduced number of email threats since deployment
  • The efficiencies generated reduced the amount of time employees and SOC analysts spent on identifying and triaging phishing attacks

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Security Awareness Training

Build cyber threat resilience and create a security-aware organizational culture. Empower security leaders to change end user behaviors and to reduce the risk of data breaches, downtime, and reputational harm.

University Achieves 42% Voluntary Security Awareness Rate

Industry: Education

Scenario: One Canadian university saw the need to increase security awareness among its faculty and students due to an increasing number of phishing emails that were getting through. There was a great need to increase general security knowledge as sensitive on-campus data can include proprietary research data, student financial information, and personally identifiable information.

Challenges:

  • Faculty afraid of negative repercussions of failing security awareness training tests
  • Mandatory campus-wide training wasn’t an option
  • Finding one centralized way to teach security awareness with a partially remote student composition

Solution: Fortra’s Terranova Security – Security Awareness Training

Results:

  • Security training in a non-intimidating environment reduced the fear of failure among faculty
  • Reached 42% voluntary participation rate among students

Manufacturer Reduces Phishing Click Rate by 20%

Industry: Manufacturing

Scenario: A global manufacturing company faced challenges creating a unified security culture across a distributed work force. The company needed to move quickly as phishing attacks and frequent and sophisticated cyberattacks threatened the organization.

Challenges:

  • Multi-lingual workforce
  • Limited information security resources
  • Low adoption rates with current security training solution

Solution: Fortra’s Terranova Security – Security Awareness Training and Managed Services

Results:

  • Multi-lingual security training materials
  • Solution compatible with limited resources and available for immediate implementation
  • 80% adoption rate within the first three years

Vulnerability Management

Identify, evaluate, prioritize, and report on security weaknesses that may be putting your organization at risk. A strong vulnerability management program helps streamline your security efforts and reduce the likely hood of an attack.

Broadway Bank Modernizes with Personal Security Analyst (PSA)

Industry: Financial Services

Scenario: Broadway Bank is one of the largest, strongest, and most independent banks in Texas. To better serve its customers, it must transition from inherited manual processes and develop a holistic view of the dangers facing a modern financial institution.

Challenges:

  • Lingering manual processes require automation
  • Dynamic and growing environment
  • Lacking a holistic view of vulnerabilities across the network and endpoints

Solution: Fortra’s Digital Defense Frontline Vulnerability Management

Results:

  • Achieved a clear view of vulnerable endpoints on the network and recommended remediations
  • Gained insights on the type of access an intruder can achieve along with the path of attack to address it

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Sonny Montiel, VP of Network Security, Broadway Bank

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Integrity Management

Remediate unauthorized changes, reduce overall risk and maximize uptime. Proactively harden and automate compliance enforcement through real-time change intelligence and threat detection.

Walgreens Takes a Proactive Approach to Security

Industry: Retail

Scenario: Walgreens is one of the largest pharmacies in the US. They handle online and in-store sales and process prescriptions for millions of customers. Because they straddle the line between retail and prescriptive medicine, they have to get out in front of security issues as more services are moving online.

Challenges:

  • Lack full visibility into their environment
  • Incomplete understanding of what they do well with their operational processes and what could be improved

Solution: Fortra’s Tripwire ExpertsOps

Results:

  • A more proactive approach to security measures
  • Learned about opportunities for improvements and efficiency across their existing processes

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Offensive Security

Identify and mitigate security risks by simulating real-world attack scenarios. This helps organizations understand their security posture, identify and validate potential weaknesses, and prioritize the risks that truly pose the biggest threat to your operations.

Industry: Manufacturing

Scenario: A large multi-national manufacturing company requested a routine penetration test to test their current defenses. While the organization outsources a pen test annually, this was the first year with Fortra at the lead.

Challenges:

  • Previous pen tests turned up “nothing in particular”
  • Dozens of machines serving a large international base

Solution: Fortra’s Core Impact and Cobalt Strike

Results: The pen-test harvested 900 user credentials, including multiple Domain Admins. An attack of this nature would allow a bad actor to take over the organization’s entire domain. Details of the report included:

  • An exploited vulnerability in a remote access utility from SolarWinds
  • Exploited Windows OS vulnerability to elevate privileges to “root” or superuser account
  • Password re-use from administrator across hundreds of servers
  • Access to LSA secrets which housed a large amount of domain cached credentials
  • The exercise provided critical insights and details for the security team to harden the environment to prevent an attack like this from an actual malicious actor.

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Industry: Government

Scenario: A U.S. government lab with thousands of endpoints and hundreds of networks across dozens of facilities is responsible for monitoring cyberattacks and other matters of national security. It employs physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers who work on projects that need to be protected from nation state actors.

Challenges:

  • Massive database of highly sensitive data
  • Highly complex and dynamic IT footprint
  • Inefficient use of resources due to false positives from high volumes of vulnerability scanning results

Solution: Fortra’s Core Impact

Results:

  • Strong complement to vulnerability scanning to gain insights on attack sequence from real-world scenarios
  • Increased efficiency by interpreting results from vulnerability scans eliminating false positives and prioritizing most critical exposures
  • Were able to prove to auditors their constant measuring of exposure to address critical points of risk

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Industry: Transportation

Scenario: This major airline employs 40,000 individuals globally and services over 600 international destinations between them and their partners. One of the biggest in the world, they were in the process of evolving their multi-layered strategy and seeking to expand their existing security investments.

Challenges:

  • Limited security resources
  • No process in place for evaluating security products and solutions

Solution: Fortra’s Core Impact

Results:

  • Force-multiplied existing team by reducing testing process from days to minutes
  • Established a standardized evaluation process for different security technologies
  • Developed insights on which security additions would be most useful based on pen testing attack data

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Automation

Force-multiply your existing defensive resources through automation solutions. Enable your organization to meet any business challenge quickly as Fortra’s time-saving technologies free your analysts to apply their expertise where it counts. 

How Automation Benefits a Busy Cybersecurity Team

Industry: Cybersecurity Software & Services

Scenario: Fortra’s PhishLabs is a digital risk protection and external threat intelligence solution. As business increased, the PhishLabs SOC needed to scale and keep pace with an exponentiating workload.

Challenges: 

  • Fast growing client list caused resources to be stretched thin
  • Too much time on repetitive tasks
  • Thousands of sites to monitor with manual mitigation techniques

Solution: Fortra’s Automate  

Results: 

  • Hundreds of incidents closed automatically per week
  • Faster shutdown times for clients
  • 20 hours per week saved on report generation

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