CUSTOMER CASE STUDY BITUMAT

Sophos Offers Wideranging Protective Cover toWater Proofing & Thermal
Insulation Industry Leader
BITUMAT, a leading manufacturer and exporter of waterproof andinsulation materials based in Saudi Arabia has sprawling manufacturing
facilities spread over 100, 000 square meters. As an organization wellaware of the advantages that tech delivers to improve process efficiency,
it is riding the digital transformation wave. Accordingly, it also wants
to move from a traditional cybersecurity posture towards a more agile,
cutting-edge and all-pervasive security environment that helps protect
against both known and unknown threats. Their search for provensecurity solutions that would protect their organization in the face ofan evolving threat landscape ended at Sophos security solutions.

CUSTOMER-AT-A-GLANCE
BITUMAT
Industry
Water Proofing & Thermal Insulation
Building Materials Manufacturer

Websitewww.bitumat.com
Number of Users
100-199

Sophos Solutions
XG Firewall 210
Central Intercept X Advanced
Central Intercept X
Advanced for Server

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY BITUMAT‘We wanted to move from legacy firewall solutions to next-gen network security that wasavailable at an ideal price point, but still offered the protection we needed for our evergrowing and evolving network. Our organization also wanted to enforce best security
practices across our endpoints and server to safeguard these from prevalent andsophisticated security threats. Sophos was the vendor of choice for us because of its deeprooted expertise and comprehensive experience in both network and endpoint security.’
Syed Yousuf Hasan Quadri, IT Administrator

Challenges:
Ì No support for legacy firewall solution
and a need to move to more advanced
network security features
Ì Small IT team unable to proactively handle
requests, which was impacting the overall
IT security posture of the organization
Ì Elevate existing security strategy to new
and improved level of maturity wherein both
network and endpoint security talk to eachother and share actionable intelligenceÌ Protect data from constantly evolving
attacks that emanate from a growing
threat landscape and attack vectors
Ì Better visibility into user activity to identify risky
behavior and deploy security policies that prevent
such behavior and ensure quick remediation

Data breaches and a need to be one step aheadof cyber threats were the critical security risks
BITUMAT wanted to guard against. The IT teamconducted a thorough evaluation and analysisof their existing cybersecurity posture to identify
key security gaps. They realized they did not haveenough visibility into network security traffic andthat they also had to deploy endpoint protection tiedin with their need for proactive security; the core
objective was to detect and block never-beforeseen threats.
“While we wanted a comprehensive security coverthat extended across our network and endpoint,
we did not want to be bogged down by a security
solution whose management and control wastime intensive. Our solution had to be extensive,advanced, and more importantly easy to deploy andmanage,” explains Mr. Quadri.

The baseline requirement of BITUMAT was simple –The security solution had to deliver a very high levelof IT security.

Emergence of Sophos as aStrategic Imperative
BITUMAT is an old Sophos customer and have beenusing SOPHOS endpoint products whose license
has been renewed. The organization has alsochosen Sophos XG Firewall to bolster its network
security. BITUMAT was aware of the Sophos’
expertise and experience in network security
and its sterling track record as a security vendor
that straddles both the network and endpoint
security space. The IT team was cognizant ofSophos’ sterling record being backed by security
technologies that move in step with the evolution

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY BITUMATof cyberthreats. They recognized Sophos being at
the forefront of developing security technologies
that safeguard organization network and endpoints
proactively from the latest known and unknownthreats.
So, a move to Sophos and its powerful security
products was a natural step as they wanted to workwith a vendor that covered all aspects of networkand endpoint security, that too with a focus on topnotch security performance.

Sophos Empowered
Cybersecurity Infrastructure
The Sophos XG Firewall delivers truly nextgen features in the form of extensive threat
management, monitoring and providing visibility
into applications, web traffic and user activity. At
the same time its offer in-depth analysis of all theencrypted traffic on BITUMAT’S network.
One of the biggest benefits of XG Firewall is a
streamlined user interface and easy firewall rulemanagement for large rule sets with grouping with
at-a-glance rule feature. This makes it easy forevery small IT team to push security policies acrossthe organization.
This firewall offers drill-down visibility into network
traffic irrespective of whether it’s encrypted, evasive
or elusive. It also offers more clarity into customer

networked applications, and instantly identifies
suspicious or malicious threats on your network andinitiate preventive action. It works in conjunctionwith SophosLabs Intelligence powered by deeplearning to identify brand new and zero-day threats
before they have a chance to invade the BITUMATnetwork.
With Sophos Intercept X Advanced and Sophos
Intercept X Advanced for Server BITUMAT benefits
from a comprehensive approach to endpoint
and server protection. Unknown threats arestopped right at the gates with deep learning AI inIntercept X that identifies unknown malware withsignatureless threat detection by analyzing fileattributes from hundreds of millions of samples.
Advanced anti-ransomware of Intercept X detects
and blocks the malicious encryption process usedin ransomware attacks, ensuring the organization
stays safe from ransomware attacks.

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Sophos solutions work in sync with one another andshare data to automatically isolate compromised
devices, at the time of cleanup, and restore network
access after threat neutralization and all thiswithout human intervention.

Deployment Results
The IT team is extremely satisfied with Sophos’
network and endpoint security products that use
the best of modern and traditional techniques toreduce the attack surface and deliver top-classdefense against even the most advanced malware.
“Sophos XG Firewall provides all-encompassing
security to our organization’s network and weespecially love how easy it is to categorize andmake specific rules to better protect certain usergroups on the network,” said Mr. Quadri. What’smore, the IT team has benefited from Sophos
Central Management whose dashboard offers asingle pane of glass into the network landscape.

“We highly recommend Sophos XG Firewall andSophos Intercept X Advanced for Endpoint andServer as they are configured for different types ofnetwork landscapes and endpoint deployments.
Sophos has also taken into consideration theneeds of small/medium/large organizations,which allowed us to pick security solutions as per
our needs and requirements,” signs off Mr. Quadri.

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