Enhancing Cybersecurity for a National Homebuilder with Redscan

The customer is a leading national homebuilder with a large and mobile IT estate. The dispersed nature of the company’s workforce means that it relies heavily on carefully selected cloud services to enable and facilitate employee and subcontractor access to systems and data, both in the office and whilst in the field. The company has a small team and needed a security partner to provide support and expertise to effectively monitor and protect important data and assets, 24/7/365.

The national homebuilder, with a large and mobile IT estate, was a potential target for cybercriminals due to its dispersed workforce and heavy reliance on cloud services. The company was not consistently capturing, analyzing, and correlating security logs, leaving it vulnerable to attacks without any visibility. There were also concerns about the company's compliance with GDPR and PCI DSS requirements. The company needed a security capability that would enable it to monitor and protect important data and assets round the clock. However, with a small team, the company lacked the resources to build this capability in-house and needed a security partner to provide support and expertise.

After a rigorous tendering process, the homebuilder selected Redscan as its cybersecurity partner. Redscan's Managed Detection and Response service provides the people, technology, and intelligence needed to quickly identify and respond to current and emerging cyber threats. For a cost-effective annual subscription, the MDR service provides extensive visibility across the company’s infrastructure, reducing their mean time to detect and respond to threats. Redscan’s Security Operations Centre professionals operate as a virtual extension of the organisation, providing notification of genuine incidents and actionable mitigation guidance. The scalability and reliability of Redscan’s service gave the company confidence that its cybersecurity is being maintained effectively and will support the business growth.

• The company now has validated security alerts and actionable outcomes. Redscan provides the insight and mitigation guidance the team needs to quickly detect and respond to incidents. Incident information is shared securely via CyberOps™, Redscan’s threat management platform. The company is now confident that if an attack does occur, it will be in a position to act quickly and effectively. The MDR service integrates with the company’s Microsoft 365, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Umbrella, Cradlepoint NetCloud, Fortinet FortiGate (firewall) and SpyCloud (dark web monitoring solution) solutions to enhance threat coverage and visibility across its network. The company values the high-quality service it receives from Redscan, awarding it 10 out of 10 for speed of response to incidents, quality of advice and the high standard to which Redscan responds to its needs.

• In an average month, security events across the company’s infrastructure generate hundreds of security alerts. With Redscan, the team can now investigate, analyze and triage all of these alerts.

• The business now has the assurance that its infrastructure, including over 1100 endpoint devices, and its corporate website, are being constantly monitored.

• The MDR service took less than two months to deploy, decreasing the time that the organisation has taken to see to value.