Fortra's Security Success Stories
Fortra offers an extensive cybersecurity portfolio second to none in the industry. Consolidate your security vendors by choosing streamlined, integrated solutions from Fortra that secure your digital enterprise while allowing you to scale to the future.
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
Take a deep dive into our vast array of tools and customize your security stack. Find the right solutions to future-proof your posture as you explore Fortra’s curated suite of best-in-class security products.
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.
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.
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.
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
High-Volume Banking Transfers with GoAnywhere MFT
Industry: Financial Services
Scenario: Banking services-management firm FPS GOLD was stretching beyond the capacity of its current MFT solution. At 30,000 transfers per week, the system gave out and often lost files in the process. To compensate, the team had to create custom scripts and spend up to an hour locating each error. They needed an MFT solution that could scale seamlessly to their business needs.
Challenges:
- More reliable and customizable MFT solution
- A better user interface
- Better licensing and pricing arrangements
Solution: Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT
Results:
- Stable data transfers “especially when transferring multiple files at once"
- Faster transfer setup and issue research and resolution
- $12,000 yearly savings in licensing fees over previous solution
Fortra Keeps Remote Government Services Rolling Securely
Industry: Government
Scenario: A North American government agency with more than 1,500 employees works with citizens every day as they request building permits, pay parking fees, process property tax payments, and even report crimes. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the agency quickly realized they needed to give citizens better ways to perform civic data sharing remotely.
Challenges:
- Sharing sensitive data online security
- Large volumes of fillies shared and received daily
- Maintaining business continuity remotely
Solutions: Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT and Fortra's Clearswift Secure ICAP Gateway
Results:
- Secure remote portal
- Citizens can remotely apply for building permits and submit other critical applications
- No human interaction needed to keep government business flowing
- Protection against malware, viruses, and other hidden metadata
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
Global Bank Trusts Clearswift for 20 Years and Counting
Industry: Financial Services
Scenario: This international banking institution boasts over 500 branches and thousands of employees. For the past 20 years, it has relied on one security company to provide them with the robust email solution they need to manage regional compliance requirements, policy implementation, and encryption.
Challenges:
- Encrypted email required
- GDPR Data Compliance
- Complex data policies
Solution: Fortra’s Clearswift Secure Email Gateway (SEG)
Results:
- Support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) and several other encryption protocols
- GDPR compliant via automated encryption tools
- Centralized management and easy deployment don’t over-burden professionals and keep things simple
Pharmaceutical Prevents Domain Spoofing with Agari
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Scenario: In 2018, leadership at a pharmaceutical company discovered a pressing security gap. They found themselves on an aggressive deadline to get all domains to p=reject and ultimately chose the security provider they were confident would get them there on time.
Challenges:
- Tight deadline for DMARC implementation
- Prioritization of fresh threat intelligence from vendor
- Security vendor must adhere to timeline and be versed in global enterprises
Solution: Fortra’s Agari DMARC Protection
Results:
- The project beat the aggressive timeline of six months, wrapping up at p=reject in five months and two days
- No issues arose during the implementation
- As a result of implementing DMARC, the company’s email security posture has become a strategic differentiator in the marketplace
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
Manufacturer Reduces Phishing Click Rate by 20%
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
VLM-Pro is a security solution which plays a critical role in Broadway Bank’s defense-in-depth approach to security.
Sonny Montiel, VP of Network Security, Broadway Bank
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
Chi-X Australia Scales Worldwide
Industry: Financial Services
Scenario: Chi-X Australia is a securities and derivatives exchange transforming the Australian investment market through a focus on customers and innovation. The company delivers easy, cost-effective access to local and global investment opportunities.
Challenges:
- High number of audits from regulators and participants
- Lean security staff
- Needed something with no latency or overhead on systems
Solution: Fortra’s Tripwire
Results:
- Demonstrated a strong security program to auditors
- Proved to regulators they can do with a staff of 10 what others can only do with a staff of 100
- Gained trust from regulators and participants by demonstrating the integrity of millions of files and configuration settings with no latency
- Tripwire was eventually scaled to other parts of the business such as invoicing and DevOps.
Western Farmers Electric Cooperative Gets a Security Upgrade
Industry: Critical National Infrastructure
Scenario: Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC) is an electric generation and transmission cooperative serving 550,000 residents across Oklahoma and New Mexico. Like many critical infrastructure sectors, they faced extra complexity from manual processes and industry-specific requirements when looking to update security measures.
Challenges:
- Time-consuming and error-prone manual processes for systems baselining
- Not enough skilled security expertise to gain actionable insights
- Critical infrastructure requires compliance with NERC CIP
Solution: Fortra’s Tripwire Enterprise
Results:
- Reduced baselining from hours to minutes with precision
- Simplified system hardening and attack surface reduction
- Produced actionable insights quickly through automated data collection and analysis
- Successfully helped meet NERC CIP compliance
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.
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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