HRI Properties Real Estate Development Firm Uses Comodo’s Containment Technology to Protect and Secure Its Data
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Comodo Endpoint Security Manager (ESM) 3.4
- Comodo's Containment Technology
- Comodo ESM Dashboard
Tech Stack
- Antivirus
- Firewall
- Web URL Filtering
- Host Intrusion Prevention
- Auto Sandbox (Containment)
- File Reputation
- Virus Scope (Behavioral Analyzer)
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Employee Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Malware Protection
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Intrusion Detection Systems
Services
- Cybersecurity Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
HRI Properties (HRI) is a full-service real estate development company based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The company is a national leader in the adaptive reuse of historic structures and has completed 70 large-scale projects with a total funding value of $2 billion. These projects include 5,114 apartment units, 4,116 hotel rooms, and over 1,300,000 square feet of office and retail space. HRI's mission is to revitalize cities by creating diverse, vibrant, and sustainable communities. The company keeps all its critical information online, including restricted information such as contracts, permits, zoning rules, regulations, ordinances, and budgets, which need to be protected and secured from malware and service interruptions.
The Challenge
HRI Properties, a full-service real estate development company based in New Orleans, Louisiana, faced significant challenges in protecting its critical data. The company had a mixture of multiple antivirus solutions from different vendors, which led to occasional malware outbreaks and major interruptions. The lack of centralized management and visibility into each endpoint's antivirus software was extremely troubling, as it prevented HRI from proactively addressing new risks. HRI needed a new security solution that could manage multiple endpoints from a single console, provide reports on endpoint status and activity, and protect endpoints from new, unidentified, and unknown threats.
The Solution
HRI Properties evaluated several security solutions, including Symantec, Kaspersky, McAfee, and Comodo. Ultimately, Comodo's endpoint security solution was selected due to its streamlined dashboard, implementation process, and multiple layers of defense. Comodo Endpoint Security Manager (ESM) 3.4 software offers seven layers of defense, including antivirus, firewall, web URL filtering, host intrusion prevention, auto-sandbox (containment), file reputation, and virus scope (behavioral analyzer). Comodo's patent-pending automatic containment technology eliminates malware outbreaks by running untrusted processes in a secure environment. The Comodo ESM dashboard provides panoramic insight and control over all aspects of endpoint protection and management, displaying 14 critical metrics at hundreds of endpoints. This facilitates rapid alerting and remediation of issues, allowing administrators to terminate processes, stop or start services, uninstall applications, and delete unwanted files without interfering with end users.
Operational Impact
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