Case Study
What MarkerStudy had to say:
Overview
Industry
- Insurance
Challenges:
- Secure rapidly expanding network.
- Identify suspicious insider activity.
- Prevent advanced persistent threat.
- Protect sensitive customer data.
Benefits:
- Full visibility of the network environment.
- Early detection of previously unknown threats.
- Prevent emerging threats from escalating into a crisis.
- Improved consumer confidence from better-protected data.
Business Background
Markerstudy Group was founded in 2001 to provide insurance solutions through a network of UK insurance intermediaries and distribution divisions. Markerstudy Group of Companies comprises of a variety of complementary businesses and brands, which provide a full range of insurance products and services including windscreen and vehicle repair, accident management and niche insurance. The company is primarily known for its leading insurance brands Markerstudy Insurance, Zenith Insurance, Geoffrey Insurance (previously Chaucer Direct) and Auto Windscreens. With millions of customers and almost 4,000 members of staff throughout the UK and Gibraltar, this rapidly expanding company manages a vast dataset containing sensitive, personally-identifiable information.
Challenges
To protect its increasing customer database and brand’s reputation, MarkerStudy recognised the need to safeguard against intruders and emerging threats
The Redsquid Solution
MarkerStudy Group chose to deploy Redsquid’s threat detection and analysis service, monitoring network traffic using the Darktrace Cyber Intelligence Platform.
Results
Redsquid offered a unique combination of Darktrace analytics, cutting-edge technologies and subject matter expertise. Redsquid’s team of professional Analysts investigated suspicious activity and determined the severity of threat, providing in-house security teams with actionable intelligence, preventing the loss of customers’ data and serious damage to reputation and operations.
The Darktrace technology was initially set up in the main data centre. Since the success of the Proof of Concept, Markerstudy have restructured their entire network in order to utilise the service more effectively. The insurance group also benefitted from having immediate visibility of newly acquired businesses when they join the Markerstudy network.
Conclusion
Redsquid’s ongoing threat detection and analysis service boosts Markerstudy’s cyber defence system. The insurance group optimises its capacity for effective threat mitigation through having the ability to detect and understand the severity of internal and external threats. In addition, it has comprehensive documentation of the entire network.
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