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Fortra Solution Brief © Fortra, LLC and its group of companies. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. (al-sb-0223-r1-at) Visibility is Key for Effective Cybersecurity Fortra.com About Fortra Fortra is a cybersecurity company like no other. We're creating a simpler, stronger future for our customers. Our trusted experts and portfolio of integrated, scalable solutions bring balance and control to organizations around the world. We're the positive changemakers and your relentless ally to provide peace of mind through every step of your cybersecurity journey. Learn more at fortra.com. Fortunately, there is another way to achieve the security your organization needs with 24/7 monitoring provided by highly skilled cybersecurity professionals. The answer is Fortra's Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response® (MDR) solution. With Alert Logic MDR, we become an integral part of your team, providing industry-leading service value and a commitment to thoroughly understand your unique business and security needs. Continuous Visibility with a Tools + People Approach It's crucial to have the right platform, intelligence, and expertise to achieve effective cybersecurity. Alert Logic provides the most comprehensive MDR coverage for your workloads across your environment. Our global security operations center (SOC) is staffed by more than 150 experts in security and information technology disciplines. Our expertise and technology leads to your desired outcomes. Our SOC provides constant vigilance, filtering out the noise and investigating and responding to incidents 24/7. Our customers are alerted only to those security incidents that need attention, so they can stay focused on their core business while having peace of mind that their network and data are being watched. Stories from the SOC Vigilance Reduces Exposure to Risk Attackers often use current events as a catalyst or cover for their attacks. During these times, vigilance reduces exposure to risk and it's not uncommon to see a spike in scans from nation states and other third-party attackers. However, most of these attacks are correlated, not coordinated — meaning they are automated and somewhat random until they identify vulnerable targets. During a geopolitical event, Alert Logic security analysts noticed a rise in traffic polling systems on a client network. Certain services use specific TCP/IP ports, and the system is designed to respond to queries with information about the platform and version to facilitate connection. However, that information also can be used to identify and target vulnerable systems. The analyst contacted the customer about the activity with remediation guidance of a configuration change to prevent systems from responding to requests from unknown external sources. The result was a dramatic drop in scanning activity. This is just one story of how the combination of data feeds across multiple compute environments, analytics, and experienced people filtering out noise to recognize correlation between activity and potentially malicious outcomes leads to effective cybersecurity. 1. 2022 Cost of a Data Breach , IBM Security 2. 2022 Cost of a Data Breach , IBM Security 3. 2022 Cost of a Data Breach , IBM Security 4. Global Ransomware Damage Costs Predicted To Exceed $265 Billion By 2031 5. Gartner Says Cloud Will Be the Centerpiece of New Digital Experiences 6. Bridging The Cybersecurity Talent Shortage - Alert Logic 7. ISC2-Cybersecurity-Workforce-Study.ashx 8. The Cybersecurity Talent-to-value Framework For more information, please visit AlertLogic.com