industry unlocked
to connect to,” Whelan added. “And we
can look at that and within 10 seconds
say ‘we know exactly what that is’, but
it’s not worrying which at the same level
is much harder to filter that out and
it’s harder to not listen to. So this has
given us a more fine-tuned approach to
identify that traffic.”
Selecting Vectra
Whelan said: “We had been using a
different product which had been doing
a good job for us for about three years
but it hadn’t really been developed.
“So we went looking in the space of
network-based detection, for a product
which had to have that level of Machine
Learning in it.
“We try to be as innovative as we can so
we’re always looking at new products to
see what they do differently to what is
already on the market.”
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If someone is
determined to get in
then they will. But at
least now we have
a way of detecting
it earlier and maybe
stopping it before
it happens.
After running Proof of Concepts on
two products, the Ardagh Group
selected Vectra.
“Its back-end services have been very
good and the roll-out has been great. It’s
pretty much plug and play so we got it
out there pretty quickly,” Whelan said.
“We couldn’t cost justify 120 plants so
I think we have it in about 30 locations
at this stage all feeding back into the
central brain.”
Justifying the business case for
the technology to the board
Whelan said: “For us, in a way, it’s
easy because the re-routing of a single
invoice between us and one of our big
customers could be worth millions.
“So we’re saying that we’re putting all
these controls in place to make sure
that bank account details don’t get
changed without proper authorisation
and approval.
“And if you’ve got people in finance
doing things like that then we really need
to manage the risk so that someone
doesn’t access that data through a
different path and make those changes.
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