Auden Group's Secure Expansion of Financial Services with Rapid7 Insight Platform
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
- Tamper Detection
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
About The Customer
Auden Group is a socially responsible financial services company based in Manchester, UK. Founded in 2013, the company is dedicated to building better ways for its customers to borrow and take control of their money. Its first product was a loan platform that makes short-term loans more affordable. Today, the company is developing new banking services designed to improve customers’ financial health and wellbeing. The company's leadership recognized the importance of cybersecurity for the success of its mission and growth, and brought on a six-person security team to manage all aspects of cybersecurity.
The Challenge
Auden Group, a socially responsible financial services company, was looking to expand its product portfolio while ensuring robust cybersecurity. The company's leadership recognized the importance of cybersecurity for the success of its mission and growth. They brought on a six-person security team, led by Philip Wright, Head of InfoSec, to manage all aspects of cybersecurity from prevention to threat response. Wright was particularly concerned about phishing and human error, and wanted to build a program around the NIST cybersecurity framework: identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover. With only a month until the company’s first product launch, Wright’s priority was obtaining the ability to detect suspicious activity. He turned to InsightIDR - Rapid7’s easy to deploy SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution that features built-in threat detection.
The Solution
Wright began a POC of InsightIDR within two weeks of starting at Auden. He had never used InsightIDR before, but he had extensive experience with other SIEM solutions and he knew that it would take months to get to a point where one of those products would be fully deployed. He needed a product that had powerful out of the box detection capabilities. InsightIDR features User Behavior Analytics and a number of other detection methodologies, making it the perfect product for Wright’s needs. Once InsightIDR was up and running, Wright turned his attention to automating processes to keep his staff from being overwhelmed. He looked at InsightConnect to address the automation challenge. Auden was able to quickly get more than 30 InsightConnect automation workflows into production. As a result, almost two-thirds of Auden’s weekly alerts are handled automatically, while the remaining one-third are accelerated with automation and alert enrichment.
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