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Aprio Saves Time and Effort
While Improving Outcomeswith Taegis™ VDRCompany: Aprio
Industry:

BusinessAdvisory Services

Country:

United States

Employees: 700+Solution
Aprio leverages Secureworks
Taegis™ VDR to automatically
identify and prioritize
vulnerabilities in client
environments.

Overview
Founded in 1952, Aprio has grown to be the largest independent, full-service CPA-ledbusiness advisory services firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. Aprio currently has over 700
team members spread across over 50 countries. Aprio provides digital transformation andcybersecurity advisory services to support customer business objectives and proactively
advance the availability, integrity, privacy and security of data.

Challenge
Jeff Kramer, Executive Vice President, Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity Advisory
Services, recognized the shortcomings of the vulnerability management tools they wereusing. “Prioritizing based on risk is a time-consuming challenge; other vendors wereexpensive, and we still had a long list of vulnerabilities which is handed to the infrastructure
team,” Kramer explained, “We need to find what is important within the unique context ofeach environment and be able to measure remediation outcomes.”
Exacerbating the challenge is the complexity introduced by hybrid-,multi-cloudinfrastructures, where organizations struggle to understand what assets are on theirnetwork, the first step in vulnerability management. Kramer explained, “The tools we wereusing couldn’t help discover the customer assets that were there; we felt that there aregaps on the cloud side.”

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CA S E ST U DYKramer also sees a practical problem that applies across service providers and customers
alike, “We need to be able to focus remediation activity, based on the results of vulnerability
management, to be as effective as possible.”

Solution
In working toward achieving their goals, Kramer views the relationship between Aprio andSecureworks as a partnership. VDR saves time by automatically prioritizing vulnerabilities
based on risk, an outcome that is extremely difficult to achieve with time-consuming
manual processes. This helps both drive and measure the results that Aprio customers wantto see by getting prioritized, real-world and actionable information based on the specificsof customer environments.
“Let’s not understate that this is materially different,” Kramer said. VDR automaticallydiscovers assets and applies advanced machine learning in assessing the risk thatvulnerabilities pose within the context of a particular environment. The VDR Health Scorealso tracks the risk profile of customers, providing an ongoing, tangible measure ofvulnerability management and remediation efforts, rather than a snapshot in time.

Benefits
In simple terms, VDR discovers the assets, as Kramer pointed-out, “workstations, websites,storage, cloud,” assesses the vulnerabilities, and uses global and environment-specificfactors to rank vulnerabilities based on risk.

“We know we arematerially improving
the risk profile ofsmall to mediumsized businesses byleveraging Secureworks
Taegis VDR.”
Jeff Kramer
Executive Vice President,
Digital Transformation andCybersecurity Advisory
Services, Aprio“VDR uses the context
around vulnerabilities toprioritize them without
teams spending a bunchof time”
Jeff Kramer
Executive Vice President,Digital Transformation andCybersecurity Advisory
Services, Aprio

Aprio, and their customers, have experienced multiple benefits from using VDR including
being able to focus and measure remediation efforts. “There are lightbulb moments, wecan provide the information customers need,” Kramer explained. Helping small to medium
businesses understand their risk profile, and achieve the outcome of reducing risk withfocused remediation is of significant value in how Aprio helps their clients. As Kramer put it,“We know we are materially improving the risk profile of small to medium-sized businesses
by leveraging Secureworks Taegis VDR.”

About Secureworks
Secureworks® (NASDAQ: SCWX) is a global cybersecurity leader that protects customer progress withSecureworks® Taegis™, a cloud-native security analytics platform built on 20+ years of real-world threat
intelligence and research, improving customers’ ability to detect advanced threats, streamline andcollaborate on investigations, and automate the right actions.

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