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
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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.
RunBuggy Quickly Scales with MDR
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
Iodine AI uses MDR to Secure Hospital Tech
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
Biscuitville Enhances Security Posture with MDR
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
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.
Credit Union Uses PhishLabs to Protect Against Executive Impersonation
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.
Large Credit Union Protects Their Users From Look-Alike Domains with PhishLabs
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
Global Retailer Uses PhishLabs to Protect Its Brand
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
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
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
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.
First-time Fortra Pentest Reveals Surprising Results
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.
Protecting Against Threats to National Security
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
Airline Staying One Step Ahead of Threats
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
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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