Understanding the Impact of Cybersecurity Breaches:
Security breaches occur when an intruder gains unauthorized access to an organization’s protected systems and data, an early-stage violation that can lead to things like system damage and data loss.
In 2019 alone, there were just over 7,000 reported breaches, with more than 15 billion records exposed as a result. Cybercriminals use hacking techniques and malicious applications bypass security mechanisms to reach restricted areas. These attacks cause damage to an organization’s reputation and can occur on a massive scale. This case study will explain how Compuquip Cybersecurity successfully contained a data breach on a telecommunications company’s on-premise environment AND successfully migrated their entire infrastructure to the cloud.
Project Background
The Client’s Unique Cloud Migration Scenario
The unique aspect of this case study is that not only was Compuquip Cybersecurity called in to analyze and contain a security breach, but we were also able to fully migrate the client’s entire on-premises infrastructure to the cloud on the other side of the incident. This was a fixed fee project that was delivered on time and within budget.
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The Client’s Successful Cloud Migration Process
The cloud migration project consisted of transferring the critical on-premise servers first, which took about 24 hours to plan and execute. Additionally, we deleted all malicious artifacts from the ransomware and moved 7TB of data to the cloud for users to access within 24 hours as well, which was a huge accomplishment.
The Business Benefits of a Successful Incident Response Plan
The benefits of implementing an Incident Response Plan for this organization included:
- Being prepared to face security incidents confidently and effectively.
- Mitigating the potential damage after a security incident.
- Maintaining the trust relationship with customers, partners, and investors.
- Improving communication between different departments.
- Strengthening defenses against future incidents with lessons learned.
The benefits of migrating to the cloud for this organization included:
- Scalability
- Cost-Effectiveness
- Remote Collaboration
- Integration
- Disaster Recovery
- Task Automation
- Enhanced Flexibility and Agility
- Reduced Maintenance
Of all the benefits of moving to the cloud, this telecommunication company benefited the most when it came to reduced maintenance. Since the company didn’t have a strong security team to keep up with system patches, we believe that an unpatched vulnerability was the primary vector of attack. Moving to the cloud allowed the client to focus more on its primary business while the cloud provider handled critical infrastructure issues like patching, updates, and access control.
Savings Impact
Cost savings is one of the main reasons why organizations migrate to the cloud. By moving to the cloud, this telecommunications company was able to lower its capital expenses since it no longer had to purchase or maintain hardware and equipment. These savings are quite significant since it not only includes the expense of the initial purchase, but also the cost of unused resources. With cloud-based services, customers only pay for the computing resources they utilize, avoiding the wasteful costs associated with server sprawl.
Translatability
Many of the areas found within this telecommunications company’s on-premise environment were translatable to the cloud. The chosen cloud provider had many options to choose from when it came to selecting the instance most appropriate for each IT function. Migrating to the cloud does come with a number of new terms and those who are mainly familiar with on-premise environments might have to take some training to learn more about the cloud space. Compuquip Cybersecurity provided initial cloud training to familiarize the team at the telecommunication company.
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