{"id":34630,"date":"2019-10-23T08:24:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T08:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=34630"},"modified":"2019-10-29T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T08:29:00","slug":"racing-post-bolsters-endpoint-security-with-sentinelone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2019\/10\/23\/racing-post-bolsters-endpoint-security-with-sentinelone\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing Post bolsters endpoint security with SentinelOne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Racing Post, a specialist print and online digital publisher, has protected against a growing number of cyberthreats after deploying a next generation endpoint security solution from SentinelOne.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Racing Post is a market-leading, multimedia\nsports company, providing a mixture of premium data, award-winning editorial\ncontent and expert tipping services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since starting as a newspaper in 1986 it has\nbecome an industry leader for horse racing news, cards and results, providing\nunrivalled sports content through various channels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, it has invested heavily in its\ndigital portfolio, developing a number of innovative products including a\nmobile app and a new customer-facing website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also operates a growing B2B division, a\nthriving publishing arm and has expanded its digital product range into sports\nother than horseracing \u2013 such as football, golf and boxing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In light of the\ndigitalisation process, Racing Post needed an endpoint security solution that\nwould futureproof the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turned to SentinelOne<\/a>, an autonomous endpoint protection\ncompany, deploying its next generation endpoint protection platform to secure\nits distributed workforce, platforms and systems against a growing torrent of\ncybersecurity threats, especially ransomware. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nchallenge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A growing and\nprogressive organisation with a strong brand heritage, Racing Post has evolved\nfrom a daily newspaper specialising in horseracing into an international\ndigital content provider, serving both B2C and B2B customers through\nmultiple platforms, across a diverse range of sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenged by the\nescalating threat landscape, Racing Post has made significant investment into\nreinforcing its security posture through ISO27001 certification, people,\nprocesses and policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In doing so, it\nrealised its legacy anti-virus solution was no longer fit for purpose in\nprotecting against modern malware and the growing prevalence of ransomware\nattacks. With its staff using solutions across different operating\nenvironments, including Windows, Mac and Linux, it needed a technology that\nwould seamlessly integrate with different operating systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a growing, ambitious and dynamic business we needed a\ncybersecurity solution that would protect us, not obstruct us,\u201d said\nJohan Pieterse, Racing Post Group\u2019s Chief Security Officer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt needed to\nprotect the business today and into the future as we look to deliver new and\ninnovative digital services to the market. It needed to be comprehensive but\nnot complex and create as little overhead as possible from both a technology\nand people perspective, allowing us to fully automate manual processes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nsolution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SentinelOne\ndelivers autonomous endpoint protection through a single agent that\nsuccessfully prevents, detects and responds to attacks across all major\nvectors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designed\nfor extreme ease of use, the S1 platform saves customers time by applying AI to\nautomatically eliminate threats in real time for both on premise and cloud\nenvironments and is the only solution to provide full visibility across\nnetworks directly from the endpoint<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\nSentinelOne\u2019s solution was an immediate contender, it was only when it caught\n28 out of 29 ransomware attacks during a simulated proof of concept trial that\nthe Racing Post was completely won over. Once deployed, SentinelOne\u2019s cloud\nsolution gave the Racing Post the ability to manage and oversee its entire\nsecurity across all platforms via a central dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter\ninstallation my team ran a simulation to test the new system, unbeknown to me,\u201d\nsaid Pieterse. \u201cMoments later my inbox began flooding with emails saying which\nmachines have viruses and how SentinelOne was quarantining the problem in real\ntime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy initial\nfright turned to confidence that we really were safe in SentinelOne\u2019s hands as\nI got continuous messages assuring me the problem was being dealt with. We haven\u2019t\nhad that luxury with previous vendors and have usually only become aware of a\nproblem as we discovered it, not via the anti-virus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cOur goals were to\ntotally automate our processes, ideally working with a partner that truly felt\nlike an extension of our team. We found that partner in SentinelOne,\u201d\nadded Pieterse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intelligent\nCISO <\/em><\/strong>spoke to Pieterse to find out more about the\nimplementation. <\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What digitalisation process has the\norganisation undergone and what security challenges have these created?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going from a traditional print title into digital, we had\nto complete the journey of moving from on premise data centres to the cloud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The natural concern is always security \u2013 we were moving from\nan on-prem data centre service which we installed, managed and controlled, into\nthe ether where we have no idea what’s actually happening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We embraced that process and reviewed what we wanted to do,\nhow we wanted to do it, how we could improve things, how we could be more cost\neffective and efficient, and then we took it step by step, making sure we were\nsecured by design at heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are there any particular threats facing\norganisations like yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think generally you have malicious actors on a daily\nbasis who try to see if they can find vulnerabilities with the aim of attacking\nyour site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think there is anything specific to us \u2013 it\u2019s about\nasking whether you have a good security hygiene and ensuring all the bases are\ncovered.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are never going to be 100% protected but it\u2019s about\nstaying on top of that and using your resources as effectively and efficiently\nas you can. And if something does happen and you\u2019re aware it\u2019s happening then\nyou can do something about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you select SentinelOne?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We came up for renewal with our existing anti-virus vendor and\nI wanted to do a proof of concept with SentinelOne. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the thing we couldn’t test properly initially was\nransomware, until my team found a site which allows you to simulate 29\ndifferent ransomware vector attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The existing vendor only picked up one out of 29. The\nSentinelOne product picked up 28 of 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was also concerned about installation as we hadn\u2019t had a\nvery good experience with the previous one. But with the help of SentinelOne it\nwas actually a very nice streamlined process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immediately we started seeing a reduction of\nincidents reported to the helpdesk.  Previously\nthere would have been a number of incidents that the helpdesk had to go and\nservice due to anti-virus causing problems or conflicts etc. Since SentinelOne,\nthat\u2019s stopped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other thing I like about SentinelOne is that, during\nthis period, we had some mergers and acquisitions and it was a very nice, easy\nprocess to go and roll the product out to other group companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It made my life much easier with acquisitions, where in the\npast with previous anti-virus, it would have been a real pain to get that\nrolled out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How far would you say the system has future-proofed\nthe organisation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beauty of SentinelOne is that it just sits in the\nbackground and does its job without hard maintenance. I\nnow have the confidence that my estate is protected whereas I didn\u2019t have the\nconfidence in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What best practice approach should other CISOs\ntake to find the right endpoint security solution for them?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t just look at the cost, look at the full benefit\npackage. Don\u2019t just go for the cheapest anti-virus to tick\nthe box because it’s not as simple as that. Cheap might be very expensive later.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Racing Post, a specialist print and online digital publisher, has protected against a growing number of cyberthreats after deploying a next generation endpoint security solution from SentinelOne. Racing Post is a market-leading, multimedia sports company, providing a mixture of premium data, award-winning editorial content and expert tipping services. Since starting as a newspaper in 1986 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":34805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,57,93],"tags":[6232,13672,69,4855,13673,13674,13675],"class_list":["post-34630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-enterprise-security","category-top-stories","tag-ciso","tag-content","tag-data","tag-endpoint-protection","tag-johan-pieterse","tag-publisher","tag-sentinelone"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34630"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34792,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34630\/revisions\/34792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}