Customer story
80 users. 24x7 security monitoring. £500 a month.
How a UK insurance broker gets continuous security monitoring and a SOC behind its business without the cost and complexity of building one itself.
UK Insurance Broker
Sector
Insurance
Location
United Kingdom
Size
Around 80 users
Cost
£500 per month
ConnectProtect
24×7 security monitoring, SOC, security data ingestion and human security expertise
The challenge
Small business doesn't mean small cyber risk.
This UK insurance broker has around 80 users.
It handles technology and information that need protecting, but like many smaller organisations, it doesn’t have an internal cyber security team sitting behind the business around the clock.
Building that capability internally would mean people.
Technology. Processes. Monitoring.
Cover for nights, weekends and holidays.
For an organisation of this size, creating its own 24×7 security operation simply wouldn’t make commercial sense. But accepting less security shouldn’t be the answer either.
The solution
A SOC without having to build a SOC.
For £500 per month, ConnectProtect provides the organisation with continuous security monitoring backed by a security operations capability.
ConnectProtect brings relevant security information from across the organisation’s environment together and monitors what is happening. Technology helps identify activity. ConnectProtect provides the people behind it. And that monitoring doesn’t stop when the customer’s IT team finishes for the day.
24 hours a day. 7 days a week. £500 a month.
Your IT team goes home. The threats don’t.
An organisation with 80 users is unlikely to have people watching its security systems throughout the night.
ConnectProtect changes that.
The customer gets continuous monitoring without needing to recruit and operate its own round the clock security team. When something requires investigation, there are people behind the service. Not just another dashboard waiting for someone to log in.
Protection for everyone
Serious security isn't just for big companies
There has traditionally been a significant gap between the cyber security available to large enterprises and what smaller organisations can realistically afford.
We don’t think there should be.
This insurance broker doesn’t have thousands of employees. It doesn’t have a huge internal security department. It doesn’t need one. ConnectProtect gives the organisation access to continuous security monitoring and human expertise at a cost designed to make sense for a business of its size.
Around 80 users.
The same need to be protected.
The economics are simple
Building 24×7 security capability takes more than buying software.
To operate continuous security monitoring internally, an organisation needs technology, expertise and enough people to provide coverage around the clock. That is a significant undertaking for an 80 user business. With ConnectProtect, this customer gets its security monitoring service for:
- £500 PER MONTH
- No internal SOC to build.
- No overnight security shift to staff.
No additional security platform for someone to spend all day watching. ConnectProtect provides the monitoring and human expertise behind the service.
01
Continuous monitoring
The organisation’s security doesn’t stop being monitored when the working day ends.
02
A SOC behind the business
ConnectProtect provides security operations capability without the customer having to build and staff its own.
03
Human expertise
Security activity can be investigated by people who understand what they are looking at.
04
Security that fits the organisation
The customer gets a level of monitoring that would otherwise be difficult to justify internally for a business of around 80 users.
05
Predictable cost
The organisation pays £500 per month for its ConnectProtect service.
80 users doesn't make you 80 times less important.
Smaller organisations face many of the same cyber security challenges as much larger businesses. They just have fewer people available to deal with them. This UK insurance broker doesn’t need to build a security operations centre.
It has ConnectProtect.
- 80 users.
- 24×7 monitoring.
- £500 a month.
“The customer’s identity has been withheld to protect its security and confidentiality.”
The organisation already had established processes for managing technology across the business. ConnectProtect works with those processes. Relevant security information is brought together. ConnectProtect provides the security monitoring and expertise. When something requires customer action, the workflow can continue through the systems its IT team already uses.
It sounds simple. It should be.
We watch the security.
Your IT team gets on with running IT.
ConnectProtect works around the way this organisation operates, not the other way around.
Because good cyber security shouldn’t create more work than it removes.
