The client is a financial services company based out of US. They were looking for a vendor who could safeguard their IT infrastructure and help them reduce their rising operational and maintenance costs. Infosys on-boarded the client’s infrastructure to it's Managed Security Service (MSS) platform and performed log monitoring and incident response via Infosys Cyber Defense Center (CDC) thereby saving cost and efforts.
Key Challenges
- High renewal and maintenance costs of the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool
- Lack of expertise in cybersecurity domain
- Excessive operational costs for people management and infrastructure setup
The Solution
Cost-effective security and compliance monitoring
- Provided integrated platform offering SIEM in a solution-as-a-service model to reduce the operational and maintenance costs
- Worked on a shared model to support SOC operations which in turn reduced costs involved in people management
- Standardized processes and procedures to support security audits and abide by regulatory compliance
Benefits
Proactive investigation of security incidents and malicious activities
Reduced dependency on third-party vendors for security monitoring
Performed trend analysis to identify traffic anomalies and successfully reported about 700 security incidents related to brute force attempts, recon activity, uncleaned virus on endpoints, and malicious behavior in the network
Enhanced vulnerability detection by notifying 50+ threat advisories to the client
