network user passwords were exposed in error – comprising the integrity of accounts and leaving them at risk of exploitation. Furthermore, the cybersecurity team uncovered that those passwords impacted weren’t compliant with the company password policy. The team needed to reset more than 3,000 passwords spanning multiple servers – which could take several weeks to months – and they needed to get users to agree to the company’s password policy and confirm compliance before they could receive their new passwords. They recognised the need for automation to complete a task of such scale and complexity in the short time required to assure the organisation’s security posture. By utilising A-Ops, the company was able to achieve run-away speed to deployment. Within just a couple of hours of executing automation, many non-system impacting accounts had been disabled. The team spent the next two days building, testing, and deploying automated flows for policy acceptance and password resets. It took just three days to build and deploy the workflow in A-Ops. From there, the client experienced minimised disruption, as implementing this automation meant its security teams weren’t waiting for endusers to complete steps to reset their accounts. Everything was rendered self-service with an emphasis on account owners to undertake actions. Additionally, A-Ops meant the company could scale without room for error. The dragand-drop interface reduced the barrier to entry for automation that could be scaled for future use cases, with minimal modification and no chance of human error in the critical task of securely managing and distributing passwords. “SecureAck allows skilled professionals to spend time working on value-add and implementing additional features, controls, and processes; meanwhile A-Ops is carrying out the mundane tasks.” Commenting on the abilities of SecureAck and A-Ops, the company’s Founder and CTO, Simon Phillips says, “At a time when teams are stretched and security professionals are forced to work like machines to defend organisations against a ferocious threat landscape, the ability to rely on intelligent automations that always work the way they are meant to reduces security risk and alleviates the pressure of defending against a highly volatile cybersecurity landscape. This is while the ability to integrate the entire security stack and negate the need for some bigger ticket purchases enables security leaders to meet the pressure to “do more with less” in a challenging economic environment.” Over the last 12 months, A-Ops has boasted 100% availability – meaning no downtime for any customers – and it is being used to run a staggering 115,000 automations each day, which totals at 3.5 million a month. Alongside this, 60% of SecureAck’s customers are benefiting from its MAaaS offering to enhance the potential of the platform. This isn’t all that makes the company stand out, for it also prides itself on the quality of its SLAs, which outperform industry competitors on metrics such as platform availability. Indeed, SecureAck’s offering is nothing short of exceptional – and at its foundation is of course its expert team and an internal culture that encourages learning and collaboration. Cybersecurity is a highly skilled profession, and it is an industry that is moving at such a rapid pace that it can be challenging to keep abreast with, but SecureAck nurtures a team environment that makes this possible. Consequently, its people can create and maintain such brilliant, technologically advanced solutions that its customers know they can completely rely on them. Looking ahead, the future is looking incredibly bright for SecureAck as it continues building innovative integrations within A-Ops to deliver core security functionalities at a fraction of the cost. An integration with AWS OpenSearch, for example, lets security teams carry out SIEM-like functions and negates the need for a costly investment in a dedicated SIEM solution. Additionally, SecureAck has expansion on the cards, with plans to branch out to North America, as Simon shares, “We are confident in SecureAck’s ability to penetrate the market, given its watertight SLAs, fast ROI, and simple integrations with popular enterprise apps and services to maintain the standards that have underpinned its rapid growth to date.” Contact Details Company: SecureAck Contact: Simon Phillips Email: [email protected] Website: www.secureack.com
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