When United Motors Group (UMG), one of the largest automotive dealers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, began a digital transformation in 2021, it made cybersecurity one of the most important elements of its vision that technology is indispensable to its strategy and success.
And as part of that vision, UMG Group Head of IT Muhammad Junaid wanted to create a cybersecurity roadmap where vendors could work with their existing tech stack in harmony. At first, UMG looked at a traditional SIEM solution, but they soon realized they needed something more robust to achieve the goals they had set. Muhammad knew they needed a solution that offered the best of modern cybersecurity technology and could cover their whole threat landscape. It’s this kind of eagle-eyed approach to comprehensive cybersecurity that makes Muhammad a Taegis Titan.
As part of your digital transformation, what did you learn you needed in your cybersecurity platform?
Our overarching thought process aimed at achieving continuous monitoring and auditing of the threat landscape and devising ways to mitigate these threats. Obviously, if we had to handle all of that in-house, we would need to hire many people. With a smaller team, our strategy was to bring in a vendor that could handle all these tasks for us.
What made you choose Secureworks® for your cybersecurity?
Upon examining their offerings in detail, we discovered that they provide comprehensive end-to-end threat monitoring while also offering a highly sophisticated managed services portfolio. This aspect was particularly appealing to us. Managed services are not something everyone provides. The features like an extended period for log retention, more advanced analytics that can give you a real-time view of your threat landscape that covers your entire ecosystem and most importantly, with Secureworks, they incorporated their product within our existing technology stack.
What benefits have you seen since adding Taegis ManagedXDR?
We maintain a small internal team that collaborates with Secureworks. Through their solution, we can effectively manage our entire ecosystem. When we see the solution working, it gives us big comfort. The analytics that are there as part of the overall solution, the way Secureworks collaborates with our team on various threats that are being identified, and the way they give us an understanding of how we optimize our current products to further protect ourselves. These are some of the real benefits that we are getting.
You can learn more about Muhammad and how Secureworks has helped UMG, read the case study.