New cloud security tools allows Eagers to future-proof its digital business
By Neil Dowling on 8th October 2022 Dealerships, News
The move, which occurs in the wake of other cybersecurity issues in Australia, comes after Eagers indicated it wanted to boost security beyond the current AWS and Azure cloud security tools.
Eagers has now adopted Check Point CloudGuard software that it said will deliver improved visibility into the cloud environment and help the company with automating governance and managing complexities across its multi-cloud assets and services.
Eagers said that a key milestone for its digital transformation was to adopt a cloud-based environment that could encompass the complexities of its business operations. Because of the size and diversity of the company, it relies on technology including the development of dealership apps, mobile apps and online car sales.
It started by migrating its on-premises Microsoft Exchange environment to Office 365. From there, the IT team migrated servers to AWS and Azure. This involved more applications and in-house development being moved into the cloud and the company’s security team needed an easier way to see—and secure—everything.
But it said that with a safety-first approach in mind, relying on native AWS or Azure cloud security tools wasn’t enough. With the limited resources of a small team, Eagers needed better visibility into each environment to increase security controls for the cloud-based assets.
Eagers’ National Information Security, Risk and Governance Manager team needed a solution that offered management simplicity, enabling more time to focus on improving operations and customer experience; and they wanted a vendor with proven expertise so they could lean expertise, again focusing on improving/growing business.
The team’s head, Mark Nix, said: “We could scan for vulnerabilities in each cloud environment, but the native tools didn’t really cover all of the functions we needed.”
“We needed a better solution for gaining visibility and ensuring compliance, which also allowed us to shift-left capabilities to implement security into the new development at the code level.”
Check Point Software was chosen for its state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions beyond threat prevention. It also ensured continuous posture alignment with DevOps best practices and enabled DevSecOps to build security into the code pipeline.
“Check Point CloudGuard delivers a well-rounded, industry-leading approach to cloud and DevOps security,” said Mr Nix.
“Best of all, we can manage the entire environment from one place instead of having multiple management interfaces for different parts. That’s key for us.”
Check Point Software managing director of Australia and New Zealand, Les Williamson, said: “With automated security functions and visibility over the entire business from a single pane of glass, Eagers Automotive’s operating environment now has best practice cloud protection utilising a prevention-first approach, enabling the team to focus on progressing its digital transformation roadmap.”
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security provides unified, cloud-native security across applications, workloads, and networks against the most sophisticated threats. With it, Eagers’ team gained visualisation of all cloud traffic, security alerts, assets and auto-remediation from a single platform.
Instead of manually reviewing individual code or outsourcing the function, CloudGuard will automatically search for vulnerabilities as code moves through various gates to production.
If a vulnerability is detected, the code cannot proceed further until it meets the standard required.
By Neil Dowling
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