Continuity of service – Third party risk

The Cyber Intelligence capabilities of the Kartos XTI Watchbots platform enable our customer to continuously protect the continuity of their critical service and third party risk in real time.

CHALLENGE

The main concern of our client, an important organisation in the energy and utilities sector, was to find a way to ensure the continuity of the essential service it provides to its customers, in the face of any threat or vulnerability that could disrupt it. Our client was looking for a way to reinforce its cyber security strategy by adding to the protection it already had in its internal perimeter a solution that would allow it to control the external perimeter. In this way, its cyber security strategy would not only be prepared for an effective reaction to a cyber attack, but it would also have cyber attack prevention capabilities, thus reducing the chances ofmaterialisation of a cyber-attack and thus reducing the chances of a breakdown in service continuity. On the other hand, its extensive dependence on third parties made it desirable to ascertain and control the risk that its business relations with any of them might entail.

Solution

Having understood the client’s needs, Enthec Solutions offers the energy company the most complete monitoring of its domain and subdomains through an Enterprise licence of the Kartos XTI Watchbots Cyber Intelligence platform. In this way, the company begins to control and neutralise open security breaches and vulnerabilities exposed outside its IT perimeter. In addition, Enthec proposes to the company the acquisition of a Kartos ThirdParty licence to effectively control the risk of third parties and prevent its suppliers and partners
and partners from becoming a threat to the continuity of the service.

Result

The company was able to locate and neutralise breaches and vulnerabilities that posed a direct threat to its security and service continuity.
security and service continuity. Once resolved, Kartos’ continuous, real-time monitoring allows the company to detect breaches and open vulnerabilities in the external attack surface as they occur, thus shortening the exposure time and preventing them from becoming a threat to the business.
In addition, thanks to Kartos XTI Watchbots, the company also has continuous, real-time monitoring of the risk in its value chain.