Aryzta

Aryzta is a global bakery company producing and distributing baked goods to supermarkets, restaurants and foodservice providers across North America, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The threats it faces have the potential to disrupt operations and damage both reputation and financial position.

Like most complex IT environments, Aryzta's core challenge was transparency: understanding how each individual part of the architecture was protected, in order to build a holistic view of cyber security maturity. That view needed to serve two very different audiences within the business, board members who need to understand and approve funding for risk mitigation, and technicians who work at the operational level on day-to-day risk and corrective measures. Before this engagement, Aryzta was managing security through multiple disconnected tools and providers rather than one coherent platform.

Aryzta runs Smarttech247's VisionX MDR platform, fully integrated into its own system landscape, alongside Nophish, regular QBRs, strategy consulting, and Tanium, all coordinated through Smarttech247 rather than managed as separate vendor relationships.

The integration itself is the headline result: instead of jumping between different tools, the team works through one platform with full transparency, at the technician level for daily operational work, at the security officer level for overview and community reporting, and at board level for progress reporting on critical points. Consolidating onto one platform has reduced maintenance and administrative overhead, and having Smarttech247 handle the broad field of security lets Aryzta's lean internal security team focus on what's specifically relevant to them, rather than trying to cover everything with their own headcount.

Aryzta needed a partner who understands the entire market, holds a solid position within it, and can track trends and developments well enough to consult, not just execute. That combination of advisory and hands-on delivery, SOC and CM provider within Aryzta's secure landscape, is what makes this feel like one strategic partnership rather than a set of fragmented vendor relationships that need to be manually stitched together.

"One of the main success factors was that we could integrate the VisionX MDR platform into our own landscape, which helps us achieve very efficient transparency. You're not jumping backwards and forwards between different tools, you just hook onto the VisionX MDR platform and everything is transparently shown."