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Catena Media gains critical security visibility
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Security Compliance
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Software
- Professional Service
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Security Claims Evaluation
- Remote Asset Management
- Remote Control
Services
- System Integration
- Software Design & Engineering Services
The Challenge
Headquartered in Malta, Catena Media is a high-quality online lead generation company for iGaming and financial services, leading the way with record-breaking retention rates of over 5 million monthly users. With more than 400 employees managing 2,600 customer brands across the globe, obtaining real-time security insights across the company’s ecosystem was a top priority. With a lean security staff, attempting to optimize security operations with the incumbent open-sourced security incident and event management (SIEM) solution was introducing many challenges. The solution ran on-premises and had stability and scalability issues. While the open-sourced solution had an active community, there was limited dedicated support to aid Catena Media with product issues. Ultimately, it required a lot of time and effort to manage, which was precious time the security staff needed to spend on other, priority efforts.
About The Customer
Catena Media is a leading online lead generation company for iGaming and financial services, headquartered in Malta. The company boasts record-breaking retention rates of over 5 million monthly users and manages 2,600 customer brands globally. With a workforce of more than 400 employees, Catena Media is dedicated to providing high-quality leads and maintaining a robust online presence. The company operates in a highly competitive market, necessitating advanced security measures to protect its vast ecosystem and ensure the safety and satisfaction of its clients. Catena Media's commitment to innovation and excellence has positioned it as a leader in its industry, continually striving to enhance its operations and security infrastructure.
The Solution
Moving away from an open-sourced approach, Giannella Borg, Information Security Lead for Catena Media, outlined several requirements for the company’s SIEM. It needed to have a cloud-based architecture with broad integration capabilities and, of the utmost importance, it needed the ability to visualize security information quickly and clearly. Following a multi-vendor evaluation, Catena Media selected the Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM Enterprise as the leading solution that met and exceeded her requirements. The power and simplicity of Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM Enterprise enabled the security team to readily move through the journey of learning key security findings to fix any issues, building out additional security capabilities, and innovating to expand attack prevention capabilities. With Sumo Logic’s powerful search features, the company could visualize what was going on across its security infrastructure, as well as its customer ecosystem. After gathering data on security issues, the team expanded the integrations, including threat intelligence, vulnerability scans, and others. Leveraging Sumo Logic’s API to automate processes, Catena Media frequently uses terraform.io, an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool. Instead of the current, manual process of code deployments, the company saw an opportunity to leverage Sumo Logic’s API to help automate workflows, as well as visualize the hundreds of collectors.
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