Industry: Utilities
Company: European Utility Company
Location: Europe
Product: Invicti Enterprise
“With the majority of an organization’s resources and applications now accessible over the Internet, this creates new risks that we need to be fully aware of, control and mitigate. As a web application vulnerability scanning platform, Invicti allows us to assess the security posture of our websites to provide deeper coverage.”
A European multinational organization offering water, waste, and energy management services was looking for a better approach to managing the security implications of global cybercrime threats. One of their key challenges was their transition to cloud-based environments. They needed a web application security solution that would provide a deeper understanding of their threat landscape and integrate well with their existing workflows, offering more comprehensive coverage of their assets.
The challenge: Combating global cybercrime as a multinational company
Cybercrime is a global issue that continues to impact organizations in every industry. As this organization manages sensitive customer data, it must constantly ensure that the security of its industrial and financial systems is properly managed with sufficient protection for its network in the cloud.
“The legislative context regarding cybersecurity is constantly changing, especially for operators of vital services. Our organization is not immune to these threats, and therefore we must make progress in the field of cybersecurity. The security of industrial and financial systems, as well as the protection of our customers’ data, are key issues that require close attention.”
To keep up with the evolving cybersecurity threats, the organization’s executive committee knew that each regional business leader needed to adopt cybersecurity policies and procedures and integrate them into existing processes. They also needed more modern tools that would help them implement the right security protections for known and unknown assets, including vulnerable and legacy web application components.
Solution: Modernizing web application security with Invicti
Through this initiative, local business managers in each regional unit in the organization were empowered to implement cybersecurity measures and policies into their operations. They chose Invicti as their tool to identify poor development practices and find web server configuration errors that could compromise cybersecurity.
“By empowering local managers to delegate scanning, we now routinely test all websites and web applications exposed to the Internet to assess risks. When Invicti identifies risks and vulnerabilities, managers can quickly remediate them and prevent problems.”
Using Invicti as their security solution, the international team now scans every new website they want to publish. This coverage allows them to detect vulnerabilities faster and provides a deeper and more accurate understanding of the security posture of their web asset inventory for complete visibility and improved risk management.
Benefits: More complete coverage with KPIs
Since implementing Invicti, the organization has been able to scan its web applications effectively across development, quality assurance (QA), and production. This helps identify flaws early, before they turn into larger cybersecurity issues. Scans run daily and can also be triggered proactively by business unit managers. Teams may also run scans ahead of production releases to evaluate newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Key benefits include:
- Visibility across the organization’s web assets
- Deep coverage of development, qualification, and production
- Easy integration of ticketing systems with development workflows
- Quality support for fast issue resolution
In addition, the organization leverages the Invicti API. This allows them to run scans and retrieve results. The results are available for each specific group of websites and web applications. They then integrate these results into their global cybersecurity KPI dashboard. This gives each business unit the same baseline vulnerability management policies. It also ensures everyone understands the risks and how to mitigate them.
Automated, accurate security for a global team
Since switching to Invicti, the organization has been able to transform its approach to web application security. They are now ahead of potential threats long before new applications are deployed, detecting issues that other solutions easily miss.
“Invicti is better at assessing web application security because it detects more vulnerabilities than traditional scanning solutions on the market. Other solutions focus their analysis on system and network vulnerabilities, rather than web application vulnerabilities, which is Invicti’s strength.”
With more complete automated coverage, business unit leaders can address security issues that would have previously gone unnoticed or untested. This improves the protection of an organization’s industrial and financial systems, as well as their customer data.
