Pratibha Syntex Ltd, one of the world’s largest full vertically integrated suppliers of all types of knitted textile products, faced the challenge of implementing a system that formally accounts and measures the tCO2 e emitted by the company annually. The company wanted to improve the quality of its reporting to key stakeholders and enhance its business functions. The company works with around 30,000 farmers, hires 8,000 employees and supplies renowned global apparel brands from over 20 countries. It produces around 60 million garments every year and has a strong ambition to be seen as a leader in driving societal and environmental responsibility.

Hernic Ferrochrome, the world’s 4th largest integrated ferrochrome producer, needed a robust system to manage Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality (SHEQ) and compliance within those areas. The company required a system that would integrate with the core of different information and process flow systems. A further essential requirement was a system that would exist as a management tool in handling the information obtained from the integration of these various systems. The company needed a system that would be fully functional from go-live onwards, simple to use, and can report correct data at any given time through reporting and dashboards. The company also wanted to manage all its 700 employees together with their 3000 contracted employees with regards to SHEQ. At any time, it was necessary to see who is on site as no contractor, or contractor’s staff member, who is not fully compliant in terms of rules and regulations, are allowed access to the property.

The company was using a spreadsheet-based risk management system which presented challenges in terms of data accuracy and time consumption. They needed an out-of-the-box solution that would be compatible with their strategy and goals. The company wanted to implement a company-wide EHS solution and wanted to reap the benefits quickly. They requested a rapid launch with a reduced group of users, with a plan to scale up rapidly and sequentially, site by site. The decision-making process in the company was the responsibility of two key people who were well experienced in safety management, IT and using various other systems.

Linde AG, a world-leading gases and engineering company, was facing the problem of an outdated environmental compliance system running on an old SAP release. The system complied only with the current SAP standard by about 50 percent, requiring tremendous manual effort for Linde to fulfil crucial legal requirements. The system was error-prone and no longer met business needs without significant manual effort. As a result, operation and maintenance were costly and inefficient. Linde AG needed a more efficient and standardized SAP EH&S platform. After more than a year of considering all the options, Linde selected IDS Scheer Consulting and 3E Company to take on the task.

Albany International Corp., a global leader in advanced textiles and materials processing, was in need of a secure, reliable, and cost-effective communications solution to enhance its business operations. The company operates 18 plants in 11 countries and employs 4,000 people worldwide. As Albany was evaluating its telecommunications services, it needed a solution that would not only be cost-effective but also enhance the company’s security and bandwidth with minimal investment. The ability to balance the deployment and integration of new technology without impairing the company’s daily business processes and bottom line performance was paramount in selecting the right vendor. Albany needed an experienced and efficient SIP trunking provider to achieve its goals.

Takenaka Corporation, a major general contractor founded in 1610, has a wealth of architectural data spanning over 300 years. However, turning this vast amount of data into usable information for modern architectural design was a significant challenge. The data was stored in various formats and was difficult to manage and use effectively. The company wanted to use this data to expand the possibilities of architectural design and to integrate it with the thoughts and feelings of people today. The company was using Tableau, a Business Intelligence tool, to visualize this data, but it was not sufficient for their needs.

Thumbs Up (Bury) Ltd, a manufacturer and supplier of plastic housewares and storage products, faced a major disruption to their business due to the infection of their computers with the Zeus Trojan. This disruption included downtime of their email system. The infection occurred while the company was in the process of swapping their email system from BTpop to Microsoft Exchange to improve productivity. However, even after the implementation of Microsoft Exchange, email-borne viruses continued to disrupt the business. In addition, about a week after the infection the company’s telephone lines were temporarily hijacked by hackers posing as BT engineers, so that if the bank phoned to verify any transactions the calls could be intercepted by the hackers and it would appear that they were speaking to the company.

One of Danieli’s key challenges was protecting its intellectual property, specifically its designs for machinery and industrial plants. Moreover, as a public company, Danieli was concerned with protecting its corporate image while providing protection against a quickly evolving and adapting threat landscape. Additionally, the company was looking for a solution that would easily extend the same level of security across all locations with the ability to manage everything from one centralized and unified console. The leadership team realized the need for a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution — a solution that would solve all of these issues. The importance of security in other internal company departments was not always at the forefront of people’s minds. Many people have the perception that security is not a priority until after a breach has occurred. The introduction of a DLP solution highlights the significance of handling data that could jeopardize the company if it were in the wrong hands.

The Intelligence Community (IC) customer was facing several challenges including crowded desktops, facilities at capacity causing a strain on power, excessive cooling, limited floor space, network proliferation, decreasing annual budgets, and a need for cross domain collaboration. They embarked on an enterprise-wide initiative for a multilevel security solution to support both high-end tactical operations support and low-end administrative users. The complete solution called for a data guard with self-release and reliable (two-person) human review capabilities. The overarching goal was for a desktop solution that can become the enterprise standard for the IC, achieving a “Culture of Collaboration.”

The company was dealing with underperforming and inflexible web and email security solutions, which were generating an average of 350 incidents each week, including false positives, that required staff time to investigate. This created a significant management burden for the company’s IT Infrastructure division. The company needed a new solution that could reduce the number of necessary investigations through better efficacy, thereby generating fewer false positives. In addition, centralized management and reporting capabilities would make investigations more efficient and reduce staffing needs. The company also needed a solution that could support their future challenges of moving to the cloud.

Rösler, a leading player in the mechanical surface finishing sector, was facing challenges with its IT security. The company had been using several firewall systems in its branches, all of which had to be separately managed and maintained. This made determining the IT security status of the entire network either rarely possible or extremely time-consuming. Tasks like updates or the securing of individual firewalls were also very time-consuming. Most firewalls in the individual branches could not be regularly monitored due to time constraints. This meant that settings and administrative activities were not being monitored on an ongoing basis, daily compliance checks were not being carried out, and configuration errors and potential security risks were not immediately being noticed. It was therefore imperative for the IT department to improve network transparency and to guarantee the simplest possible management process.

The Center for Army Analysis (CAA) was working with an infrastructure in which access to all Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Management (C4I) networks required each user to have four separate workstations and a Black Box KVM switch at their workspace. This resulted in duplication of hardware and massive power consumption. Another problem that CAA faced was a severe time degradation in moving classified information across multiple networks. This prevented the execution of critical Global War on Terror and warfighting analyses.

Kaba Access Control, a North Carolina-based manufacturing facility, has been home to some diverse operations, including a cotton mill, foundry, and furniture hardware manufacturer. The company has utilized its prior assets to build a business that includes die-casting, plating, sanding, stamping, assembly, and shipping operations, as well as in-house research, engineering, and customer support services. The facility includes 150,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space and employs over 250 personnel. Coinciding with its changing businesses, the building’s original 1905 brick structure has undergone a series of renovations and additions, morphing the once basic space into a complex web of access points. The company had managed their access points with an online, wired system, but retired the system when it could not provide expanded coverage at a reasonable cost. With input from the safety committee, the company embarked on choosing and installing a new access control system that would provide a higher level of security and accommodate its numerous users and critical access points.

Williams Racing, a Formula 1 race team, employs over 650 people who contribute to the team’s performance. This includes engineers who analyze real-time data from video analytics of their own and competitors’ cars, weather data, and over 300 sensors on the car to inform pit crews on health and performance. Cybersecurity is critical to Williams’ success on and off the track. To race competitively, their engineers need unencumbered access to the real-time data from the track and ensure that the data is not tampered with. To compete in their commercial markets, they need to protect their intellectual property from external attacks and insider threats. The COVID-19 pandemic has further complicated this task, with over 60% of Williams’ employees working remotely from unsecure home networks or remote Wi-Fi networks with unknown configuration.

The company, a leading supplier of cables and wires across several sectors, including automotive, industry, and elevators, was facing the challenge of protecting its valuable IP and that of its high-profile clients across its corporate and international locations. The company needed visibility to risky activity, indicating corporate espionage. With collaboration on a global scale, this sensitive, proprietary data is frequently on the move. Realizing data in motion can be difficult to see and control, the company needed a better way to secure it. And as the company expanded into countries with a known high risk of IP theft and corporate espionage, it wanted to ensure proprietary data was locked down. The breach of just one client’s IP could mean the loss of every clients’ trust—hurting the company’s reputation and its bottom line.

Marcegaglia, a leading steel processing company, relies heavily on the integrity of its technology and data to support its production activities and global strategies. The company employs about 2,000 licensed users with personal accounts and email addresses. In 2008, Renzo Rossi, CTO of Marcegaglia, began looking for a more efficient and secure means for thousands of users to access web content safely. Rossi recognized the need for a more efficient navigation process, company-wide, while protecting employees and data in real-time implementing and improving internal technology hand in hand with the development of the risks of the network.

Tekno Group, a company specializing in manufacturing pre-painted metallic products, was facing a challenge with their previous security solution. The solution had become cost-prohibitive and was not keeping up with advancing technologies. The company needed a security strategy that could protect their intellectual property and client data, increase prevention of threats via email and web, and was cost-effective while still maintaining the highest quality.

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a leading semiconductor company, faced the challenge of preventing the leakage of high-level internal information due to the competitive nature of the semiconductor industry. The company needed a system that could monitor internal users for signs of behavioral anomalies, identify the causes, and prevent data loss. The system needed to not only inspect unsafe actions but also monitor the entire situation, predict potential data loss incidents, and analyze causes. Additionally, the system needed to be compatible with various existing PC security software and should not interfere with the daily business of each user.

IMI Remosa, a leading manufacturer of control systems, faced a significant challenge in protecting its proprietary information. As the company continued to grow and innovate, the volume and accessibility of sensitive data increased, making the company increasingly vulnerable to data leakage and theft. The company's transition to a multinational organization accelerated the need for a security solution that could prevent data leakage and theft while ensuring safe and regular access to sensitive information. The IT organization was tasked with protecting the company's intellectual property and defining user roles and access privileges. To ensure the security and control the flow of sensitive information within the network, a security solution that provides both comprehensive Data Theft Prevention and detailed analytic reports was necessary.

The company, a Fortune U.S. 50 enterprise oil and gas company, was facing a significant challenge in securing its critical proprietary data from people-based vulnerabilities. The company's task force identified that the biggest risk was employees leaving the company, who could potentially exfiltrate proprietary information. The company was aware of data leaks but lacked the ability to understand if they were accidental or malicious. The company needed a solution that could provide irrefutable evidence in case of litigation and help them get ahead of potential leaks.

The organization was dealing with a large volume of network traffic, with 89,000 concurrent IPs being analyzed. This resulted in a significant amount of noise, with only 1% of the traffic warranting deeper investigation. The challenge was to filter out the noise and focus on the high-risk events that needed attention. Additionally, the organization needed a solution that could provide visibility into behaviors across the full lifecycle of an attack in the network, beyond just the internet gateway. This included identifying unauthorized devices on the network and detecting suspicious domain activity.

Perrigo, a global pharmaceutical company, was facing challenges with its existing procedures which led to inconsistent cloud security policy enforcement and created risk of data exfiltration. The backlog of cloud service approval requests from employees inhibited productivity. The lack of visibility into cloud service providers in use prohibited proactive cloud enablement. The company needed granular visibility into what their users were doing and the ability to provide policy controls for different business units. They needed to gain complete visibility into cloud usage, proactively block high-risk services, and increase detection of high-risk behavioral anomalies.

Morisawa K.K., a pioneer in the Japanese phototypesetting machine industry, faced a challenge with its cloud services. Each department was making its own decisions about which cloud services were secure enough for business use, as there was no organization-wide standard. This led to concerns over the amount of risk exposure due to not having clear guidelines. The Information Systems team urgently needed to prepare a set of standards for which cloud services are acceptable or not. They were also concerned about the scalability of manually keeping an inventory of those cloud services. The team was also concerned with what criteria to use and who would decide whether or not a given cloud service would be considered enterprise-ready. Morisawa was aware that many cloud services lack the security capabilities to prevent unwanted data loss or deletion.

The national healthcare organization was faced with the challenge of protecting large amounts of personal health information (PHI) across multiple tenants of O365, addressing widespread use of cloud apps, and preventing the risks of Shadow IT and unauthorized web access. The organization's initial discovery process uncovered thousands of Shadow IT apps and a lack of security controls to govern them. This led into a deeper analysis of managed apps, including over 30 tenants of O365, plus the capability for users to securely use third-party O365 tenants. Existing web gateway security appliances lacked the capabilities to secure and govern managed apps and Shadow IT, let alone multiple tenants or instances of each app. Data movement within cloud apps was also included in the new cloud security strategy. As a large healthcare organization with hundreds of millions of rows of data, the solution required data protection for any user, device, or location.

The company, a distributor in North America, was facing challenges in securing its geographically dispersed environment. Traditional security vendors were falling short when it came to stranger peripherals such as printers, scan guns, tablets, and guest devices. The company had a centralized data center and numerous physical locations across the country, making their network very distributed. Before deploying Vectra, the company was not monitoring network traffic, creating a significant gap in their security infrastructure.

The company, a Forbes Global 2000 manufacturer of specialty chemicals and advanced materials, needed to ensure its supply chain, from raw materials to finished goods, was not compromised by hidden cyberattacks. The company's supply chain spans the procurement of raw materials to formulating the plastics and adhesives that are essential ingredients in its own customers’ manufacturing processes. Cyberattacks could disrupt production operations, causing serious business disruption, reputational damage and fines for regulatory noncompliance. The company wanted to lift the burden from its security operations team, which was weighed down by huge volumes of inconclusive alerts and false positives.

The high-tech manufacturing company was undergoing a shift from discouraging the use of cloud apps to enabling it. As part of this process, Google Apps for Work was shortlisted for sanctioning since a large part of the company was already using it, particularly Google Drive for storage and collaboration. However, IT needed the ability to protect sensitive content that was being moved into Google Drive. They wanted to monitor what is there, understand how it is being used and shared, and take action only if users are engaging in risky behavior. They also needed to report to the company’s executive management, board of directors, and audit committee about cloud usage and risk. Additionally, IT wanted to identify and monitor activity in unsanctioned apps that may be redundant with the sanctioned list, and use those findings to consolidate usage onto the sanctioned apps, including Google Apps for Work.

The company initially implemented Vectra AI to protect some of its legacy systems that did not support encryption at rest. This was necessary to meet compliance requirements. The company then extended the use of Vectra AI to monitor other devices and servers within its network. The company was looking for a solution that could detect anomalous behavior and reduce the time spent on looking into logs. The company also wanted a solution that could triage threats and correlate them with compromised host devices. The company was dealing with about 300 events a day, with about 10 to 15 events requiring investigation.

CRC Industries, a global provider of over 1,300 chemical specialty products, was facing challenges in moving its internal and external data assets from legacy systems to the cloud. The company lacked the resources and technical infrastructure to handle large amounts of data and speed up the entire process without compromising on data security and integrity. The company's IT team had performed data migration for companies CRC has acquired in the past, but it was always a complex, time-consuming process. The global manufacturer exchanged data between its different business units via Excel or text files, used a legacy system to analyze them, and performed data quality checks via SQL statements. However, the only way to load data in D3FO was through its built-in templates, which mainly supported the Excel format. This made it difficult to handle, import, and export data to and from D3FO.

Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages faced a challenge of multiple disparate data sources in various locations, which required lengthy and costly ETL solutions and extensive manual workarounds to extract meaningful information and reconcile this data to their ERP systems. The company needed fast, user-friendly access to integrate and report on data from various sources to optimally manage its business within an economically challenging environment. The typical daily update processes could take up to eight hours just for one day’s data, and that could fail, leaving the business without up-to-date reporting.