2021

Constant vigilancehelps build asafer futureKaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
passes every test with flying colors, providing
international chemicals business with vital extra
immunity against cyber criminals.
Founded near Vienna almost 200 years ago, the Donau Chemie Group supplies industrial chemicals
used in hundreds of everyday products and processes.

Chemicals• Headquartered in Vienna, Austria• Kaspersky Managed Detection andResponse (MDR), Kaspersky Endpoint
Security for Business Advanced andKaspersky Security Awareness Training“ Kaspersky MDR wasincredibly easy toactivate and shows
great value, with thedetailed information itprovides helping us tofine-tune our defenses.”
Christian Lang, IT Manager,Donau Chemie AG

Today, the group employs around 1,100 people in 11 countries, predominantly in Europe andthe USA. The family-run Donau Chemie Group with its headquarters in Vienna is a leading
company in the chemical industry in Austria, Central Eastern Europe, Germany, Italy, theUSA and the Philippines. The focus is on the production of inorganic industrial chemicals
such as sulphuric acid, electrolysis products and calcium carbide as well as the productionof environmental products for the purification of water. The portfolio of the Donauchem
Division comprises the distribution and mixing and blending of a comprehensive range
of industrial chemicals and specialties in various qualities (technical, chemical orpharmaceutical). Donau Carbon develops, produces and supplies high-quality, tailor-madeactivated carbon products and offers suitable service concepts. Donau Kanol develops andproduces consumer goods in the fields of medicine, cosmetics, household and technology,and animal and garden. Its 2018 revenues exceeded €370 million.

Challenge
Donau Chemie’s success relies on the uninterrupted operation of its manufacturing
centers, the skills of its scientists and the expertise of its sales, marketing andcustomer service teams. Secure, reliable and integrated IT keeps the corporate engine
running smoothly and efficiently.
The protection of its IT is especially important as it manages large volumes of valuable
data, including the company’s own priceless manufacturing formulas and processes.
It also must safeguard Donau Chemie’s own confidential corporate data and that of its
customers and suppliers, as well its employees’ personal information.
When the company faced increasing threats from cybercriminals targeting businesses
with ransomware, and employees with sophisticated phishing scams, IT Manager,
Christian Lang, took immediate steps to put robust defenses in place to protect thecompany, its people, trading partners and assets.
Explains Christian: “We selected Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business Advanced
for its excellent performance in identifying and blocking dangerous software. And since
we deployed the solution, we haven’t had a single successful attack, which is great!”To this Christian added Security Awareness training programs from the extensive
Kaspersky portfolio, to equip both Donau Chemie’s IT team and its colleagues inother departments, with the knowledge, skills and good habits to operate safely andsecurely at work.
“For me, this is where good IT security really begins,” says Christian, who estimates that
Kaspersky Security Awareness training programs save Donau Chemie at least €45,000
every year.

21,100employees€370m“But, while I’m very satisfied with these measures, and we have renewed our existing
agreements with Kaspersky recently, I’m always looking for IT to add value, to simplify
processes, to deliver efficiencies and reduce manual errors. So, I’m constantly looking
ahead to see how we can improve and what additional steps we can take to help to stayahead of our competition – and the cybercriminals.”in annual revenues

The Kaspersky solution€45,000

During one of his regular conversations with Kaspersky, to review the performance ofexisting solutions and assess Donau Chemie’s evolving requirements, Christian wasasked to consider the merits of Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR).

saved annually throughcybersecurity training

Kaspersky MDR implements all the latest approaches to cyber threat hunting, further
improving the effectiveness of Kaspersky products, by supplementing multiple,
automated detection technologies with the unique, hands-on skills and experience ofworld-class professional analysts.
The key advantage of Kaspersky MDR is that it detects attacks that automateddetection and prevention tools may have missed, including new, more elusive andharder to identify malware-less attacks, those disguised to look like legitimate admin
activity or those lying dormant in IT infrastructure, ready to be activated by an attacker.
“I was interested but I needed to understand what MDR added to the protection
I already had from Kaspersky Endpoint Solution,” explains Christian.
“I agreed to a trial of Kaspersky MDR, but I was concerned that it might take a lot oftime and additional resource to install and set the trial up, at a time when we wereparticularly busy with other projects. So, it was very pleasing to find out that thetest could be configured in just 15-30 minutes by simply connecting to the existing
Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business Advanced system.”

3Confidence
Cybersecurity solutions and experts areprotecting Donau Chemie 24/7/365

At first, given the excellent performance of existing cybersecurity measures, theMDR test produced routine weekly administration reports. Then, when there wassuspicious activity that couldn’t be automatically prevented, Kaspersky MDR instantly
triggered an alert and a personal phone call to Christian to advise him of the issue andrecommended action on efficient mitigation.

Fine tuning
Security
Endpoint attacks reduced
to zero“Kaspersky MDR was incredibly easy to activate and shows great value, with thedetailed information it provides helping us to fine-tune our defenses. When evaluating
all our options, it came out top of a range of potential additional cybersecurity
solutions that I was considering. So, at that moment, I decided to extend our use ofKaspersky solutions by adding MDR to our cybersecurity portfolio.

ControlManagement console ideal for small
IT team“Years ago, I regarded Kaspersky as a business specializing in anti-virus but now it’s
clear the company is so much more than that. In fact, given the performance of its
solutions, I’m considering using the Kaspersky penetration testing service next, as I
think that its experts are the only ones capable of really assessing the real strengthof our defenses and ensuring that we are doing all that we can to stay safe.”

Detailed MDR reports inform businessdecision-making and create peace ofmind

Cost
Priceless protection from data theft,and preservation of business continuity
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