Creditsafe earns high scores for hybrid cybersecurity

• Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security
• Cybersecurity & Privacy - Identity & Authentication Management
• Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

• Business Operation

• Cybersecurity Services
• System Integration

Businesses want to verify that prospective partners are financially viable, with strong credit histories. Offering the industry’s most predictive scoring algorithms, Creditsafe helps businesses make sound, informed decisions about engaging with other firms. Creditsafe must ensure its information is secure from cyberattacks, while maintaining superior system performance for its employees and high virtualization density for optimal efficiency. The company’s prior security solution offered IT limited visibility and reporting about outbreaks. Its scanning of servers and laptops would also slow system performance and reduce productivity of users. To resolve these issues, Creditsafe conducted proofs of concept against a range of competitive solutions.

Creditsafe is the world’s most-used supplier of online company credit reports. With 200,000-plus subscription users and 16 offices in 12 countries, Creditsafe delivers accurate and up-to-date credit information on over 240 million businesses in an easy-to-use format for businesses of all sizes. Headquartered in Cardiff, United Kingdom, Creditsafe operates within the financial services industry and employs 1,500 people, including 25 IT staff. The company is known for its predictive scoring algorithms that help businesses make informed decisions about engaging with other firms. Creditsafe's mission is to provide reliable and comprehensive credit information to ensure businesses can verify the financial viability of their prospective partners.

Creditsafe has deployed the Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra Security solution to protect more than 1,200 systems on various operating systems, including virtual machines. Creditsafe also depends on Bitdefender for full-disk encryption. GravityZone Ultra strengthens Creditsafe’s protection against sophisticated attacks with effective endpoint detection and response. Geraint Treharne, Creditsafe’s head of information security and compliance, explains: “Bitdefender EDR has helped us increase our resilience against cyber-attacks. EDR makes detection more accurate and provides a solid background on what’s happening at the endpoint. This helps us decide how to respond—whether we block suspicious files or processes or isolate an endpoint.” The company’s 1,500 employees use thin clients or desktops to access Bitdefender-protected Citrix resources via the cloud. IT uses the GravityZone cloud console to manage the entire environment. Bitdefender’s integration with Active Directory, automatic uninstall of McAfee, and control via relay servers all helped make the deployment quick and easy for the IT team.

• Bitdefender completes full scans in a few minutes, compared to an hour previously.
• CPU utilization has fallen from 60 percent to barely registering on usage scales, increasing virtualization density.
• Creditsafe avoided increasing its Citrix server environment by 30 percent when it moved to Amazon Web Services.

• Completed full scanning functions in a few minutes, compared to one hour previously.
• Decreased CPU utilization from 60 percent to almost nil.
• Implemented policy changes in seconds across the entire infrastructure versus 30 minutes.