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Colin Anderson, Chief Information Security Officer at Levi Strauss & Co.
Data security is paramount to
operations during the rapidly
transforming cybersecurity
landscape. Colin Anderson,
Chief Information Security
Officer at Levi Strauss &
Co., explains why it selected
Exabeam to protect its
corporate brand as well as to
protect its consumer trust.
LEVI STRAUSS & CO.
UTILISES EXABEAM
PLATFORM TO BOLSTER
SECURITY OPERATIONS
ounded in 1853, Levi
F
Strauss opened a wholesale
dry goods business in San
Francisco that became
known as Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.).
Today, LS&Co. is one of the world’s
largest and most recognisable brandname
apparel companies and a global
leader in jeanswear. The company
designs and markets jeans, casual wear
and related accessories for men, women
and children under the Levi’s, Dockers,
Signature by Levi Strauss & Co. and
Denizen brands.
Challenge
As one of the world’s most recognised
apparel companies, Levi Strauss & Co.
operates a globally dispersed team.
With the threat landscape changing,
traditional systems based on an EPS
model were falling short. LS&Co was
looking for a security partner that could
scope a solution to meet its needs.
The company sought a team that was
fast-moving and whose skills could be
augmented by a SIEM that incorporates
automation into its tools.
“Looking at the landscape of SIEM
products out there, we were searching
for underlying technology and
architecture that lends itself to meeting
the needs of a more agile security team,”
said Colin Anderson, Chief Information
Security Officer at Levi’s.
“One of the big challenges a lot of us are
facing is that we want to try to automate
and orchestrate more,” said Anderson.
“We’re trying to leverage technology
to help manage the growing amount of
data and the growing number of attacks
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