REA Group Case Study
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Pacific
Country
- Australia
Product
- Skyhigh for Shadow IT
- Skyhigh for Box
Tech Stack
- Cloud Services
- SaaS
- Machine Learning
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
About The Customer
REA Group is a multinational digital advertising company that specializes in real estate. The company operates Australia’s leading residential and commercial property websites, as well as sites in Europe, Asia and North America. As a rapidly expanding global business with increasing cross-country collaboration, REA Group saw the need to review its software security practices. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and operates in the media industry. The company's annual revenue for the fiscal year 2016 was AU$630 Million.
The Challenge
REA Group, a multinational digital advertising company specializing in real estate, was facing challenges in discovering and monitoring cloud usage in an open cloud environment and blocking high-risk sites and services. They needed to securely roll out sanctioned collaboration tools like Box to a global workforce. The company also aimed to deliver on security roadmaps while meeting the four pillars of REA Group’s technology strategy. As a cloud-first organization with 90% of its systems being SaaS based, the IT team at REA Group developed two parallel roadmaps for their technology and security teams that suited REA Group’s open technology culture and met the four pillars of its technology strategy: discovery, reporting, risk assessment and policy control.
The Solution
REA Group chose Skyhigh for its straightforward setup and immediate value in increased visibility into all cloud services in use and their risk. The solution allowed the company to enforce compliance and governance policies, securely enable cloud services that drive productivity, and enhance their existing cloud adoption strategy across the organization. REA Group used Skyhigh’s CloudTrust™ Ratings to assess each cloud service’s risk and block high-risk sites and services that host malware and pirated content. The company also deployed Box to users with an additional layer of protection for their data that includes contextual access controls, data sharing policy enforcement, seamless integration with other cloud services, like Okta, for identity management and the ability to easily extend existing data loss prevention policies (DLP) to Box.
Operational Impact
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