COVER STORY
With a goal to increase efficiency
and innovation throughout the Group,
McLaren has embraced workforce
trends like flexible or remote working,
meaning that its staff are no longer
all based at the McLaren Technology
Centre. However, they still need to
access their data wherever they are in
the world and across various corporate
devices like smartphones and laptops.
Providing superior managed
security services to McLaren’s
expanding network perimeter
24x7 cybersecurity is so important
for McLaren across many areas of
the group, from its customer data and
products to the organisation’s internal IT
infrastructure. Secureworks deployed a
holistic cybersecurity solution which not
only protects data but allows safe and
quick access to key systems for users.
Taking a consultative approach,
Secureworks assessed how McLaren
manages its cybersecurity to ensure its
data is well protected without limiting
access to its employees.
For McLaren, having a trusted partner to
take an objective and measured view of
the group’s cybersecurity risk and where
it might want to position itself while
delivering flexibility about how that could
evolve over time was essential.
Digital
Transformation
and our connected
world create for us
the opportunities
of greater insights
coupled with the
potential to lose
IP, lose customers’
data and ultimately
be exposed to
vicious threats and
challenges.
Cloak to make sure vulnerabilities are
dealt with instantly, keeping McLaren’s
data secure.
The solutions in use today include
Secureworks iSensor, which allows
McLaren to leverage Secureworks
security experts who scour the global
threat landscape for latest threats,
delivering a risk profile and strategy to
help ensure that its sensitive data is kept
secure and accessible. Intelligent CISO spoke to the McLaren
Group’s COO, Jonathan Neale, to find
out more about the challenges the
organisation was looking to address and
why it looked to Secureworks.
The Secureworks platform leverages
Machine Learning and Artificial
Intelligence to evaluate telemetry
gathered from multiple security
controls, which includes everything
from the car information on race days to
customer data. We know that as sensors go towards
zero dollars and weight towards zero
kilograms, the payload of the sensors in
everything is getting bigger. This means
that more data insights are available
across our thread of technology.
Threats are highlighted in real-time
to the on-premise cybersecurity team
with Secureworks Advanced Endpoint
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What security challenges has
Digital Transformation created?
Looking at our journey through sensor
integrations, edge computing, secure
data distribution, data modelling and
ultimately out to the cloud where we
have neural networks and Artificial
Intelligence now processing some
of that data, that thread widens what
the historical security envelope would
have been.
If we add that to mobile workforce and
heterogenous technology stacks where
you want the best of breed, it’s a really
challenging environment.
Digital Transformation and our
connected world create for us the
opportunities of greater insights
coupled with the potential to lose
IP, lose customers’ data and
ultimately be exposed to vicious
threats and challenges.
What were your main priorities
when looking for a vendor?
We’re looking for much more than a
good vendor, we’re looking for a good
partnership together with common
values. Those common values are
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