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Case
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Credit Union |
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The Challenge
Anitian began working with a
regional credit union in 2001. At that time, the company had
numerous security problems. Existing security vendors had
failed, repeatedly to resolve endemic network and employee
abuse problems.
The Solution
Anitian started with a basic
strategic plan. Slowly over the course of many years, the
organization would implement new controls to protect assets
and resolve network problems. From 2001 to 2006
Anitian implemented new enterprise firewalls, intrusion
prevention, web filtering, two-factor authentication,
SSL-VPN and numerous policy and process improvements.
The Impact
Over the past seven years, the
customer has become one of the largest credit unions in the
Pacific Northwest. This company is now heralded as a
leader in information technology. They have some of the most
sophisticated and robust security controls in the nation. A
recent federally mandated security audit noted in their
comments: "this is one of the most security-savvy credit
unions we have ever seen." |
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Municipal Government |
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The Challenge
In the summer of 2004, Anitian
won a small contract with a large municipal government to
perform remediation analysis. Four other security vendors
were also selected at that time to perform other projects.
Anitian completed the remediation work under budget and was
immediately called back to do a larger project. This
involved helping the CIO to unify multiple, disparate
agencies on to some common best practices for security. It
was a monumental challenge that a global security consulting
firm was unable to accomplish with a six-figure budget.
The Solution
Anitian, working off a
five-figure budget, came up with a novel approach. A common
"report" that would help all agency IT staff understand best
practices for the entire government entity. The report was
long (about 375 pages), but it described best practices for
dozens of different domains such as perimeter security,
encryption and change control. The report also included a
security maturity self-assessment tool. This allowed each
agency to perform their own, internal assessment of their
security maturity.
The Impact
The affect of this document was
profound, to say the least. While it prompted numerous
discussions and debates, it also got a group of highly
divergent agencies to start using the same language and
concepts. This eventually transpired into a common set of
policies, guidelines and standards (which Anitian also
helped write). The project was extremely successful
and has become a standard model for other municipal
governments looking to unify information security management
and governance. |
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Manufacturing |
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The Challenge
Anitian began working with a
medium sized manufacturing company of 2003. At that time,
the company had a very minimal network and serious
reliability issues on workstations. Company owners
were looking to expand and grow the business. But they
needed a secure and reliable network.
The Solution
Anitian worked with senior
management to slowly introduce new technologies and new
processes over the next two years. This included a
migration to a new network, new firewall, end-point
protection and spam filtering.
The Impact
Over the past three years, the
customer has more than doubled their business. And all the
time, Anitian has helped their network become a reliable and
secure part of their business. Downtime is almost
non-existent. Employees have almost no spam messages.
Desktop computers are reliable. And the business has been
able to add many other new services. |
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