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SECUREWORKS HELPS IFFCO TO ALIGN ITS SECURITY PRIORITIES WITH THOSE OF THE WIDER BUSINESS
Goutam Pudota , CISO and Group Head of Information Security at IFFCO discusses how it – a leading manufacturer in the food and beverages industry based in the United Arab Emirates – worked with Secureworks to securely simplify and streamline its operations . Pudota explains how the company leverages Secureworks ’ XDR and VDR platforms to support cybersecurity across its cloud and IT infrastructure .
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S been working with IFFCO since the beginning of this year . IFFCO selected Secureworks based on its ability to provide a managed service that complements IFFCO ’ s inhouse capabilities . Secureworks ’ Taegis XDR platform and MDR services went live in February . It has bolstered IFFCO ’ s defensive posture , provided it with proactive cybersecurity capabilities and given it a unified view of its cloud and IT infrastructure . Secureworks provides IFFCO with monitoring capabilities , risk analysis and contextualised guidance to mitigate threat alerts . Should the need arise , Secureworks is always on hand to provide IFFCO with a deeper level of investigation through its incident response capabilities . IFFCO has a dedicated customer success manager that maintains a regular dialogue with the CISO ’ s office to discuss the latest threat intelligence and help IFFCO to constantly improve its cybersecurity infrastructure .
What does a typical working day look like for you and what ’ s the scope of your responsibility at IFFCO ?
I head the entire information security department as a CISO for IFFCO . My remit includes global operations which spans the 17 different countries we operate in , across 33 different plants .
My typical working day begins by looking at the latest threat intelligence reports , which provides me with an update of what ’ s happening across the security industry .
Then I review our internal logs and SOC reports to see if there are any incidents or actions that require my attention .
Typically , this would be followed by meetings with various business stakeholders . We ’ re a multinational business which means we have different management teams in each country and it ’ s important that I ’ m able to talk with
Goutam Pudota , CISO and Group Head of Information Security at IFFCO them on a regular basis to discuss their latest business initiatives and how we can best align our security efforts to support them .
In addition , I review and manage our ongoing security awareness campaign to ensure that everything is in line for the coming weeks and months , and that internal comms can go out as planned .
I also make sure I ’ m available to help my technical teams architect security solutions and provide them with any other support and guidance they need . www . intelligentciso . com
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