The average time to identify a malicious attack is 191 days.
The corresponding average time to contain an attack is 66 days.
Industry Challenge
The average time to identify a malicious attack is 191 days. The corresponding average time to contain an attack is 66 days. These stats clearly underpin the importance of fast and conclusive threat detection, an activity that demands total traffic visibility at all times. Abtran identified this need quickly and wanted to improve their internal data handling processes and gain more visibility without affecting efficiency. Their primary want was to ensure that customer information is used and handled in the most secure way possible by all members of the organisation. Abtran needed to sharpen their focus on cybersecurity due to the expansion of their digital services. To address this, the implementation of a SIEM alongside Watson for cybersecurity allowed them to predict, identify, understand and eliminate cyber threats. Moreover, Abtran needed to ensure compliance with the recent EU GDPR, PCI and ISO27001
The Solution
In order to gain visibility of their network and a way to protect their organisation against the growing number of cybersecurity attacks, Smarttech247 implemented an on-premise IBM QRadar SIEM along with Watson for Cybersecurity. Abtran was the first company globally to use IBM Watson as part of their managed security service package.
What the customer said
“IBM Watson for Cyber Security enables our security team to predict, identify, understand and then eliminate cyber threats. This gives Abtran the confidence to stay ahead of ever-increasing cyber threats.” – Aisling Deasy, CIO