Global Streaming Media Platform Case Study
Team Cymru helps Global Media Giant Transform Security into Business Enabler
Key Insights
Enhanced Compliance
Gained full visibility of digital assets, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.
Operational Cost Savings
Streamlined processes and reduced manual efforts, optimizing resources
Proactive Risk Management
Prioritized vulnerabilities based on business impact, minimizing threats to critical operations.
Summary
A leading media streaming platform supporting global Fortune 500 organizations faced growing challenges in managing its vast 20,000 EC2 infrastructure, meeting regulatory compliance, and aligning cybersecurity with business objectives. The CISO adopted Team Cymru’s Pure Signal Orbit™ to transform their approach to cybersecurity, turning it into a business enabler.
With comprehensive asset visibility, real-time risk scoring, and integration with existing tools, the security team enhanced compliance, optimized costs, and enabled new revenue opportunities by proactively managing risks and ensuring uninterrupted operations. This strategic approach positioned the security team as a cornerstone of the company’s success.
The Challenges
The organization faced mounting challenges managing its sprawling 20,000 EC2 infrastructure while meeting stringent regulatory requirements. Operational complexity and a lack of comprehensive visibility left the security team relying on fragmented tools that delayed their ability to act decisively.
Proving business value meant the CISO needed to align the security program with operational goals, demonstrating how risk reduction could directly enable business growth. Critical insights were missing that could provide real-time visibility, prioritize threats based on business impact, and streamline workflows to free up resources for strategic initiatives.
The company faced several hurdles that required a transformative approach:
Regulatory Compliance Pressure: Supporting a broad customer base demanded strict adherence to regulatory frameworks such as FedRAMP High and SOC2.
Operational Complexity: Managing over 20,000 EC2 instances without centralized visibility created inefficiencies and risk exposure.
Limited Incident Context: Traditional tools failed to provide comprehensive external visibility, making it difficult to gather the necessary context for timely and informed decisions during incidents.
Strategic Alignment: The security team needed to improve how they supported organizational goals of cost reduction, risk management, and revenue generation.
The Solution
Recognizing the need for a solution that could align security with business objectives, the CISO turned to Team Cymru’s Orbit.
Orbit provided real-time asset visibility and risk scoring, empowering the security team to identify vulnerabilities with precision, and then prioritize those with the greatest business impact. Automated discovery streamlined processes, freeing the security team to focus on high-value activities like corporate security awareness training. By integrating Orbit with existing tools, the organization gained a cohesive view of risks, transforming its security program into a proactive, business-aligned function that safeguarded customer trust and enabled strategic growth.
By implementing Orbit, the company addressed these challenges, aligning security with its broader business goals:
Enhanced Asset Visibility and Compliance
Orbit provided comprehensive visibility into external assets, ensuring compliance with frameworks that relate to managing digital risks. The team leveraged automated discovery to enable efficient inventory management.
“Orbit helped us map everything out, showing what’s exposed and critical. It’s unmatched at discovery.”
Proactive Risk Management
Risk scoring each asset by business impact allowed the team to identify, prioritize, and address vulnerabilities proactively, minimizing operational disruptions. This alignment ensured that customer-facing services remained reliable and secure.
“We use Orbit to triage risks and prevent vulnerabilities from becoming problems.”
Cost Optimization
Automation and seamless integration with existing tools streamlined workflows, reducing manual workloads and operational expenses. For example, automating asset discovery reduced repetitive tasks, allowing team members to focus on high-value activities like corporate security awareness training.
“Integrating Orbit with our tools gives us a complete picture and helps us address critical risks first.”
Revenue Enablement
By expanding the visibility of risks and securing customer infrastructure, the CISO enabled the company to expand its offerings and create new revenue opportunities. The organization was able to continue being risk-averse, yet expand into profitable new markets.
“Orbit provides the external perspective we need to secure both our business and customers.”
Faster Incident Response
Contextual insights gained from Pure Signal enriched data enabled quicker, more informed responses to incidents, ensuring minimal impact on operations. The accuracy of data allowed the team to trust that level of potential impact, and focus response and remedial efforts.
“Orbit gives me the business impact perspective I need to prioritize efforts during incidents.”
Demonstrated Results
With Orbit, the CISO enabled the organization to elevate its security posture to support uninterrupted operations and regulatory compliance. By achieving full visibility into its external assets, the organization ensured adherence to frameworks like FedRAMP High and SOC2, avoiding risk of fines whilst strengthening customer relationships. Operational efficiencies soared as automated workflows reduced manual workloads, allowing the team to respond quickly and accurately to potential threats.
Risk-based prioritization minimized downtime by addressing vulnerabilities before they became critical issues, ensuring customer-facing services remained secure and reliable.
The enhanced security capabilities enabled the company to expand into new markets, creating fresh revenue opportunities while maintaining its risk-averse approach. Orbit proved instrumental in aligning security efforts with business goals, ensuring the company could thrive in an increasingly competitive environment.
Enhanced Regulatory Compliance
Ensured adherence to legal frameworks like FedRAMP High and SOC2, avoiding financial impact from fines whilst promoting customer trust.
Gained Operational Efficiencies
Automated workflows and streamlined processes minimized resource wastage and enhanced efficiency to discover, prioritize, respond, and recover from incidents to maintain business continuity.
Improved Risk Mitigation
Proactively addressed vulnerabilities, reducing downtime and safeguarding customer facing operations.
Optimized Collaboration
Integrated tools and real-time insights aligned security efforts with organizational priorities, enabling the team to more effectively communicate risks and actions within the organization to stakeholders, and externally with supply chain partners
Conclusion
With Team Cymru’s Orbit, the company’s CISO transformed the security function into a business enabler. By enhancing compliance, reducing costs, and enabling new revenue opportunities, the security team delivered measurable value while managing risk effectively.
Orbit continues to play a critical role in the company’s success, providing the insights and tools needed to support strategic goals and safeguard critical operations.
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