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Client

Our client is a leading global technology firm successfully providing wide ranging IT services to large multi-national enterprises across many different industries including Retail, Finance, Telecoms, Manufacturing and Government.

Amongst the array of products and services they offer, our client’s expertise lies in the design, deployment and management of mission critical payments systems. These systems are needed to create a scalable and robust PCI Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) network infrastructure to process credit card data in a secure and compliant environment.

BlockAPT has been working closely with our client to mitigate against the risks of cyber-theft of cardholder data which could be detrimental to their entire payment ecosystem.

Using our automated, intelligent, cybersecurity BlockAPT platform, we have successfully created a secure payments arena deeply integrated with a plethora of vendors and applications.

Real time cyber-threats can be detected, responded to, communicated and prevented in an automated manner with minimal disruption to business.

Challenges

The collection, management, filtration and categorisation of many millions of events and logs from disparate systems, into a single view to make PCI audits easier. Rigorous PCI-DSS regulatory requirements demanded a platform that would monitor and manage existing infrastructure from several disparate network and security vendors.

The business requirement was to strengthen the overall PCI-DSS security infrastructure, improve reporting visibility while reducing the time and cost to deliver various audit and compliance requirements. The end goal was to simultaneously make PCI-DSS a “business as usual process” whilst maintaining regulatory compliance – all completed in a quick time-scale with minimum disruption to their business.

Strengthen the overall PCI-DSS security infrastructure with minimal disruption.

Improve reporting visibility and reduce the time and cost to deliver various audit and compliance requirements.

Solution

BlockAPT met all of the client’s requirements successfully providing consulting expertise gained through designing, deploying, and managing complex network and security infrastructures. The culmination of which was the deployment of our innovative, automated, modular BlockAPT Platform.

The BlockAPT platform’s ‘Monitor’ functionality was used to receive a large number of logs from disparate network and security devices. Using our sophisticated security analytics and threat intelligence engine, the raw data was analysed, sorted and processed efficiently and effectively, thereby speeding up the delivery of PCI-DSS audit and reports.

The BlockAPT platform’s ‘Manage’ functionality was used to deeply integrate various disparate network and security devices. This enabled the client to have full management of their total infrastructure from a single pane of glass.

With integrated communication tools, detection and automation of responses to cyber-attacks targeting the PCI DSS infrastructure, the client was in a stronger position to futureproof their business and continue to provide their customers with a safe and secure service against future cyber-threats.

24/7 security monitoring across digital estate.