Intelligent CISO Issue 05 | Page 51

COVER STORY nd-user ed Transaction Services Group, a global provider of revenue management solutions, has leveraged BeyondTrust’s Privileged Access Management and Vulnerability Management solutions to attack complexity and reduce risk within the organisation. T The company manages the revenue management function for clients in industries including health and fitness facilities, sports clubs, property management companies, maintenance providers, home service providers and insurance companies. It currently has more than four million customers globally and processes approximately US$2 billion worth of transactions per year. TSG is utilising BeyondTrust’s Privileged Access Management and Vulnerability Management solutions to provide valuable intelligence about potential risks, helping to reduce its susceptibility | Issue 05 rou p C IO f o r Tran oup s Gr saction Ser vice ATTACKING COMPLEXITY AND REDUCING RISK he parent company of a number of leading revenue management solutions providers, Transaction Services Group (TSG) has a global presence, operating in Europe, Asia, Australasia and the US. www.intelligentciso.com y, G to cyberattacks. David Kennedy, Group CIO for Transaction Services Group, praises the technology for providing visibility of vulnerabilities in the network and on company devices. He said: “Unless you have visibility, you can’t make informed decisions. We needed to understand where to best spend our budget and where the risk was that needed to be mitigated.” Privileged access accounts, he said, are what the attackers are really trying to get to as they are then able to traverse the network and identify the information they want to manipulate. That’s why it’s so important to secure privileged accounts first as they are the ‘top of the pyramid’. “Having single reporting frameworks and reducing your technology complexity helps you get the best bang for your buck as far as time is concerned,”