California construction
company uses OpenText EnCase and OpenText Security Services
to reduce risk.
WATERLOO, Ontario, Nov. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ:
OTEX), (TSX: OTEX), today announced that Webcor, a premier provider
of commercial construction services throughout California, worked with OpenText to improve
their security expertise, find and mitigate threats, and reduce the
company's cyber risk profile. During a presentation today at Enfuse
On Air 2020, the companies discussed how OpenText experts helped
Webcor improve their overall cyber resilience.
"OpenText was very effective in risk mitigation, and in defining
the scope of work necessary to improve our security posture," said
Kim Bates, Vice President, CIO at
Webcor. "They gave us the security framework that we needed to
implement at Webcor. Without OpenText, our risk profile would be
much higher."
Early in 2020, Webcor knew it needed to investigate potential
threats across the organization's endpoints and devices, including:
laptops, desktops, and servers. Webcor initially engaged OpenText
Managed Security Services to augment the Webcor IT staff and
increase its security expertise.
"To effectively and efficiently manage cyber risks today,
organizations need a combination of cyber resilience expertise and
technologies, like OpenText EnCase," said Muhi Majzoub, OpenText
Chief Product Officer. "During this tumultuous year, OpenText
has been proud to work with customers like Webcor to help ensure
they can continue to operate their businesses in a seamless, safe,
and secure way."
The OpenText Professional Services team helped evaluate Webcor's
current security posture, and procedures to develop a robust
security plan that included a cross-layered detection and response
(XDR) and an event management solution to augment the more
traditional solutions in place at Webcor. OpenText now provides a
managed detection and response service that includes a monitoring
and incident response capability that can help customers like
Webcor reduce the need to maintain full-time security staff.
Based on the success of the managed service deployment, Webcor
also conducted a full security risk assessment with the OpenText
Threat Hunting Service. The assessment resulted in crucial
improvements to the overall security defenses of Webcor's software,
hardware, and networks, increasing its ability to react to security
events in real-time.
"The OpenText Threat Hunting Service was extremely effective,"
said Jay Grant, IT Security Director
at Webcor. "We isolated real-world threats and remediated them. We
have full visibility into what those issues were and their root
causes. More importantly for me, with the help of OpenText, we used
that as springboard to develop a security plan and an architecture
to prevent, detect, and remediate any future threats."
"When COVID-19 hit and Webcor transitioned to a remote work
model, the company was already better positioned than most," Grant
explained. "We were actually well-placed when the pandemic hit
because of the way we architected our infrastructure with OpenText.
We had the connectivity and the security already set up. The
additional visibility OpenText provided has greatly enhanced cyber
resilience here at Webcor."
OpenText and Webcor presented their experience this week during
OpenText Enfuse On Air, the leading conference on information
security, data discovery, and forensic investigations. The session
is available on-demand beginning today for all registered
attendees. Registration is free and available here.
For more information on OpenText Managed Security Services,
visit:
https://www.opentext.com/products-and-solutions/services/managed-services.
For the full OpenText and Webcor case study, visit:
https://www.opentext.com/customer-stories/customer-story-detail?id=1563.
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