Cyber Security Strategy for Private Equity Business

Client

Wizard Cyber partnered with a buy and build private equity company to assist with designing, building and delivering a cybersecurity strategy for the organisation. Private Equity investors are increasingly asking for more reassurance on the cybersecurity that is in place. At the end of the day, these investors are trusting private equity firms with large amounts of capital and they want the reassurance the company has appropriate security measures in place.

We presented our Microsoft Azure Sentinel SOC & MDR system that took advantage of the entire Microsoft security stack and demonstrated how this rollout could happen with minimal disruption.

Challenge

The customer has been relying on their small in house IT team to cover the tasks for cybersecurity. IT and cybersecurity have rapidly required two different approaches and although the IT team had adequate levels of protection and good use of multiple vendor technologies they were not monitoring or responding to many of the systems that were in place. Unfortunately, the IT team was understaffed and too busy with the BAU IT support to be able to give cybersecurity the attention it required.

The objective of the customer was to improve the cybersecurity posture. The IT team wanted to offload the entire cybersecurity segment to a partner that could free them up to concentrate on BAU and IT projects but was keen to get a solution that was easy for them to enrol new users and monitor when needed.

The customer also wanted to be able to move quickly once they agreed as this was a big issue for the board and they wanted to see big improvements almost instantly.

Solution

Our Azure Sentinel SOC & SIEM service was the perfect fit for this customer and once we demonstrated the level of information and control that could be unlocked by correctly licensing their Microsoft tenancy we were able to get the initial deployment started within hours. We have invested a lot into Azure Sentinel and its the single pane of glass view that is required to be able to properly understand what is happening.

Results

As their security partner and Azure Sentinel SOC providers we currently deliver the following services:

24/7 Monitoring of the entire estate
Full Microsoft security stack configured, monitored and controlled by our SOC team
Continous threat hunting

Some of the technology that is in place:

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
Microsoft Intune
Conditional Access
MCAS/Cloud App Security
Microsoft Defender XDR

Your business, our mission

Wizard cyber offer enterprise-grade, cost-effective cybersecurity solutions to the SME market. As a Microsoft Gold Partner and Azure certified experts, we are utilizing the Microsoft Azure Sentinel platform to achieve this and offer this to all customers in any industry of any size. We have a team of talented cybersecurity professionals who have the very best value and ethos who are passionate, talented and strive to deliver our customers' best service. If you would like to discuss your cybersecurity concerns or hear more about how we can help kick start your cyber journey to becoming secure and resilient against cybersecurity breaches and attacks.