Large Refractory Manufacturer Seamlessly Achieves ISO 27001 Compliance

Industry:Iron & SteelLocation:Asia Pacific

The company is the fourth largest refractory manufacturer in the world and a leading supplier of refractory materials for iron, steel, aluminum, copper, and ceramics refractory plants.

It also provides refractory management services, engineering services, and technical support services. Furthermore, the company has extensive plant facilities capable of manufacturing more than 4,00,000 metric tons per annum.

They were using several tools and third-party vendors for their overall vulnerability management needs.

Hence, this led to siloed interfaces and multi-point solution approaches, which obviously were manually driven through multiple agents, leading to irregular scans, significantly limited visibility to IT assets, prolonged patch management lifecycles, and a lack of remediation controls to fix security risk exposures.

Additionally, they found it extremely challenging to gain real-time insights into security risks, assess existing security controls, reduce risks, and create audit-ready reports to meet ISO 27001 compliance goals.

The company decided to drive maturity and excellence in their security operations to meet compliance needs.

They chose SanerNow for its undoubtedly superior security features, reduced complexity, and the single-pane-of-glass visibility it offered into the technology infrastructure.

SanerNow gave them a risk-based view of their attack surface and helped them quickly identify, detect, prioritize, and remediate critical vulnerabilities.

With its automated and continuous assessment capabilities, built-in security intelligence, risk prioritization, and real-time insights, SanerNow basically helped the client to understand the vulnerabilities and proactively remediate them deeply.

Their infrastructure management team simultaneously used SanerNow’s vulnerability and patch management tools to reduce risk exposure and remediate vulnerabilities.

• Single cloud-based, centralized console for detecting and patching vulnerabilities
• Manage and patch vulnerabilities with intelligent, lightweight multi-functional agents
• Accurate prioritization with high-risk vulnerability detection
• Automated patch management with in-built vulnerability remediation tools
• Seamless patch fixes for Windows, Mac & Linux within 24 hours of release by vendors
• Actionable, insightful dashboards for a 360-degree view of security posture
• Zero disruption patching with pre-tested, verified patches with rollback features

Moreover, the real time risk assessment reporting features of SanerNow emphatically helped the client to monitor and evaluate IT risks in one place, mitigate key risks, revise security strategy, and identify all the pieces needed to solve the compliance puzzle. This includes:

• Latest vulnerabilities based on their severity, number of compliant and non-compliant devices
• Patch details based on their severity, vulnerability, misconfiguration, and patch trend details
• Vulnerabilities by their respective CVSS score
• Clarity on devices with high vulnerability count
• Highly exploited vulnerabilities across devices
• Detailed insights on missing security misconfigurations
• Non-compliant rule deviations in the network
• Misconfiguration remediations to mitigate risks
• Network devices with missing security patches
• Insights into risky IT assets, license violations, outdated operating systems, and applications

• Easy deployment & no manual interventions
• Up-to-date posture assessment through automated scans in 5 minutes
• Reduced total cost of ownership with one platform to address multiple security use cases
• Powerful visualization of IT infrastructure topology for rapid assessment
• End-to-end automation capabilities from scanning, detection, assessment, prioritization and remediation
• Automated patch management for faster remediation
• Just-in-time technical support

• Significantly gained deeper visibility into IT infrastructure and security operations
• Enabled in establishing a reliable asset inventory to build effective information securitymanagement systems to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability
• Ensured security controls are working optimally to prevent threats
• Rapid identification and fixing of compliance gaps
• Ensured business continuity by preventing cyber threats
• Continually improved security posture to keep pace with changing risk environments

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