CASE STUDY
landscape for latest threats, delivering a risk
profile and strategy to help ensure that their
sensitive data is kept secure and accessible. Those common values are a belief that the
appropriate use of technology transforms the
workplace and our customers’ experience.
The Secureworks platform leverages Machine
Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence
(AI) to evaluate telemetry gathered from
multiple security controls, which includes
everything from the car information on race
days to customer data. Why did you choose Secureworks?
Threats are highlighted in real-time to
the on-premise cybersecurity team with
Secureworks Advanced Endpoint Threat
Detection Powered by Red Cloak to make sure
vulnerabilities are dealt with instantly, keeping
McLaren’s data secure.
Intelligent CIO Europe spoke to the
McLaren Group’s COO, Jonathan Neale,
to find out more about the challenges the
organisation was looking to address and
why it turned to Secureworks.
What security challenges has Digital
Transformation created?
We know that as sensors go towards zero
dollars and weight towards zero kilograms, the
payload of the sensors in everything is getting
bigger. This means that more data insights
are available across our thread of technology.
Looking at our journey through sensor
integrations, Edge Computing, secure data
distribution, data modelling and ultimately
out to the cloud where we have neural
networks and AI now processing some of
that data, that thread widens what the
historical security envelope would have been.
If we add that to mobile workforce and
heterogenous technology stacks where
you want the best of breed, it really is a
challenging environment.
Digital Transformation and our connected
world create for us the opportunities of
greater insights coupled with the potential to
lose IP, lose customers’ data and ultimately
be exposed to vicious threats and challenges.
What were your main priorities when
looking for a vendor?
We’re looking for much more than a
good vendor, we’re looking for a good
partnership together with common values.
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Based on the trust of our technical
partnership, we want to be focusing our
time on the applications layer, the data
and our customer and product experiences.
The global nature of Secureworks and its
ever-changing threat analysis means that we
couldn’t possibly be as good or attentive.
Secureworks analyses around 30 billion log
events for us on an annual basis and that is
an eyewatering number for a company of
our size. The company’s ability to use AI and
Machine Learning to spot the threats within
that data is second-to-none.
We have peace of mind that Secureworks is
looking at what’s going on in the emerging
technology space and we know that it
is monitoring threat profiles which are
constantly changing.
THE COMPANY’S
ABILITY TO USE
AI AND MACHINE
LEARNING
TO SPOT THE
THREATS WITHIN
THAT DATA IS
SECOND-TO-NONE.
How would you summarise the main
benefits of the solutions?
Great partnerships are fundamental to the
way we go about racing. It’s a partnership
that McLaren is very proud of. We know that this complex environment is
always changing. The fact that Secureworks
work with so many blue-chip organisations
to analyse the threat environment, the
solutions and help people embrace different
technologies means that it is far better
placed to do the heavy lift of that work and
allow us to focus on areas where we need to
pace drop.
Can you outline the challenges
of distributed data and how
Secureworks tackles this? In addition, the client portal has enabled us
to demonstrate our success to the board as
we can provide specific KPI/KRI metrics.
With data fundamental to our business
success, security needs to be second-to-
none and Secureworks has enabled us to
achieve this. How far has this future-proofed
the company?
Not only do we have security today, but we
are able utilise its expert team, which spends
endless hours scouring the global threat
landscape to deliver a risk profile and strategy
that will enable us to ensure our data is
continuously kept secure and accessible.
The Secureworks platform leverages Machine
Learning and Artificial Intelligence to
evaluate telemetry gathered from multiple
security controls, which includes everything
from the car information on race days to
customer data.
In addition, threats are highlighted in real-
time to our on-premises cybersecurity team,
allowing us to make sure vulnerabilities are
dealt with instantly.
Nothing is ever taken for granted and
who knows where the future threats are
coming from. It’s difficult to rest easy but
we have confidence working together in
partnership with an organisation at scale.
Secureworks works with a range of blue-chip
organisations which are using these products
and services to continually update them. This
is a much better place to be in than fighting
it alone and puts us in a strong position to
anticipate threats and react.
How have the solutions
enabled efficiencies?
As this partnership has allowed us to
outsource the majority of our cybersecurity
resources; our in-house team are able to focus
their time and resources on any projects that
bring direct benefits to McLaren. n
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