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Rahm Emanuel said to never let a good crisis go to waste so I try and adopt a progressive attitude for the organisation .
be able to speak to them very clearly and concisely . What we do is try and tell the story of how an incident would affect the organisation not just from a production perspective , but from a brand reputation perspective . With SentinelOne we have excellent threat detection response , with other partners we are securing the perimeter and with our own staff we are raising digital literacy . We try and make sure this isn ’ t just technology focused , we make sure it ’ s business focused and aligned with the risk appetite of the business .
How do these business objectives align with your partnership with SentinelOne ?
I think we try and keep it simple , which is the risk appetite for Aston Martin . We have a prestige product which needs to be secured to the highest degree . We have a production line that is secured to a high degree and uses SentinelOne to make sure that we are threat hunting and detecting and responding to problems . We make sure that SentinelOne is geared towards innovating and producing new ways of working so we ’ ve recently undertaken an extension on the partnership by using Ranger and that gives us greater visibility of the corporate estate . So SentinelOne really is delivering excellent real time threat protection . The threat hunting tools gives me insight and analysis of the estate , and it allows us not just to react to incidents , but to anticipate and forecast problems going forward . SentinelOne delivers intelligence that allows for better forward planning .
What are some of the main benefits your end-users have seen since SentinelOne came on board ?
The main benefit is risk reduction . Our users know the endpoints are protected , they understand that we have active agents on the endpoint to ensure no disruption to services and I think the best technology solutions are frictionless , cause little outages and users don ’ t notice them . I don ’ t want someone to stop me in the corridor and say ‘ SentinelOne is fantastic ’. I want seamless integration and that lack of disruption . I think its implementation , its constant stream of intelligence helps us speak to the business about our production issues . When we have had issues on production , I ’ ve been able
I think being evidencebased , providing intelligence and solving the problem is where SentinelOne really shines .
to derive intelligence from SentinelOne to explain the context , the timeline and the remediation , for instance , that might have affected production in an evidence-based way that has been about resolving the problem and establishing a more secure footing going forward . I think being evidence-based , providing intelligence and solving the problem is where SentinelOne really shines .
How do you plan to continue leading your team to success ?
It ’ s a constant demand to consider how we can improve on our vision . We have a clear Target Operating Model for cybersecurity that includes SentinelOne continuing to deliver systematic benefits and improvements for our team . We focus on security standards – we want to make sure security standards are being driven up so we reduce risks , we reduce incidents and events . And when we do have major events being reported it is important that they are controlled quickly and that we learn from them . We want to innovate with our technology and we want to innovate with our tooling so we are constantly in collaboration with SentinelOne about emerging approaches we can adopt . We ’ ve also provided feedback as to the sort of security analytics we feel should be derived from the system . And then the final part is maybe a cliche but building digital literacy . For me , continuing to lead the team to success is about aligning and capitalising on risk opportunities in the most positive sense . It ’ s a constant challenge , but I love it . u www . intelligentciso . com
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