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Maritz Enhances Security and Compliance with Next-Gen WAF

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Technology Category
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Event-Driven Application
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Virtual Private Cloud
Applicable Industries
  • Cement
  • National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
  • Product Research & Development
Use Cases
  • Tamper Detection
  • Traffic Monitoring
About The Customer
Maritz is a holding company that provides a variety of services to Fortune 500 companies and beyond. Its businesses offer market and customer research, customer loyalty programs, sales incentives, employee rewards and recognition programs, and meeting, event, and travel incentive services. The company has multiple business units and applications, each with different technology stacks. Maritz hosts a PCI environment, as several of its business units accept credit card information, and therefore must report annually on PCI DSS compliance. The company was seeking a solution to enhance its security posture in support of PCI DSS requirement 6.6.
The Challenge
Maritz, a holding company providing a range of services to Fortune 500 companies, faced a significant challenge in enhancing its security posture to support PCI DSS requirement 6.6. Several of its business units accept credit card information, necessitating annual reporting on PCI DSS compliance. The company decided to implement a web application firewall as an additional layer of security for its PCI environment. However, with numerous business units, applications, and diverse technology stacks, Maritz needed a single product that could be deployed across all current and future hosting environments, whether physical or virtual, on-premises or cloud. The company was also seeking a solution that was easy to use, with automated blocking and simple deployment, to replace their previous open-source solution that required extensive manual effort to operate.
The Solution
Maritz chose to deploy Signal Sciences, initially rolling it out to 5% of its corporate application footprint. The deployment was so successful that Maritz decided to expand it to cover 90% of total applications across multiple business units. Signal Sciences' simple agent and module software was deployed directly to the web server, without requiring changes to traffic flow or impacting legitimate traffic or performance. Maritz uses Signal Sciences' API to ensure agents are up to date and functioning properly, and the dashboards provide visibility into flagged and identified malicious IPs. The solution's ease of deployment and effectiveness led to its acceptance across the organization, and it will now be a corporate-wide offering with an opt-in model. Importantly, Signal Sciences did not require Maritz to set up a new team to manage the product, fitting in seamlessly with their existing Security Operations Center and standard operating procedures.
Operational Impact
  • The deployment of Signal Sciences has brought several operational benefits to Maritz. It has provided visibility at the application layer, enabling more meaningful conversations about application security between the infrastructure services group and engineers. Developers can now see attacks in real-time and take immediate action. Signal Sciences' automatic traffic categories also provide application engineers with insight into anomalies, many of which can be cleaned up with minimal effort. The solution's virtual patching capability has provided insights into common vulnerabilities exposure (CVEs), allowing the team to block malicious attempts and buy time to fix the underlying vulnerability. As Signal Sciences continues to build out its CVE library, this will become even more valuable and time-saving.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Expanded coverage to 90% of total applications across multiple business units
  • Automated blocking of certain attack patterns that previously required manual investigation and mitigation
  • Integration with existing Security Operations Center, eliminating the need for dedicated FTEs to manage the product

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