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SecureLink empowers organisations to protect themselves in an increasingly online world

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SecureLink is providing flexible solutions that meet Europe’s cyber security needs, powered by a strong combination of artificial and human intelligence-driven solutions Writer: Phoebe Calver | Project Manager: Vivek Valmiki

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EME ecureLink has uniquely positioned itself in the market with an approach to cyber security that is based around utilising the right people, processes and technology.

SecureLink combines marketleading technology with years of experience by some of the industry’s most talented experts to provide its customers with the services and solutions they need to safely enable their business.

During the 15 years that the Company has been in operation, it has established many fundamental features that are vital for successful cyber security. SecureLink has taken its industry expertise and turned it into a holistic approach, and with the right people at the helm it uses technology to strengthen that knowledge.

“A huge turning point for the Company occurred earlier this year with acquisitions that enabled SecureLink to boom in size,”

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Security Doesn’t Have To Be Complicated SIMPLER SIEM FOR THE ENTERPRISE • LogPoint typically takes days rather than months to install • Straightforward licensing model that doesn’t penalise data usage, unlike other SIEMs • Plain English search functionality and clean, intuitive design • By partnering with Securelink, LogPoint helps underpin the expertise of a market leading Security provider, enabling them to focus on creating business value for their customers • Deploy LogPoint as a managed service, and you have all the alerts and insights from a premium SIEM, at a level of access that's right for you and with experts on hand when you need them

TOP SCORE FOR LOGPOINT IN GARTNER PEER INSIGHTS LogPoint is the Silver Award winner of the 2017 Peer Insights Customer Choice Awards in SIEM

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SIEM is an invaluable tool in your cyber security arsenal, giving you real-time alerts to data breaches and advanced threat intelligence to help spot problems before they compromise your network.

Yet SIEM is often seen as expensive and complicated to install, making many organizations think twice before considering it.

Intuitive by nature and agile by design, LogPoint is a premium enterprise SIEM with world-class features, but simpler to deploy.

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Immediate action on any malicious activity

Stop worrying about meeting regulatory requirements

Real-time visibility to optimize your business

LogPoint discovers and manages any data breach, before the damage is done.

The software employs proactive monitoring, rapid trouble-shooting as well as advanced correlation and searches, to detect even the most complex threats.

Ticking all the compliance boxes is a constant challenge for European enterprises, and failure to adhere to requirements could lead to heavy fines.

LogPoint’s reports have been specifically developed to cover the broadest spectrum of regulatory domains, and the added security and business insights will be vital for your organization.

Better understanding of your enterprise data means better decisions are made. It’s that simple.

The powerful visualization means you have a good overview, which helps to optimize work-flow and identify critical events early.

LogPoint solves all your common security management challenges: IT security, Compliance and Operational Insight.

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some of the big players out there which is brilliant for our reputation - but we think that being relevant is equally as important. Size without flexibility is pointless and that’s why you see flexibility as a part of our strategy.

“The customer wants to share the benefits that comes with a “box mentality” such as a lower price, scalability and faster migration; but at the same time they want to tweak the solutions to fit their unique needs. We have pinpointed those customer-specific areas and created a package so you can have the best of both worlds. I think this is a reason why our customers stay, and what make us really strong in the market.”

Consumable technology

explains Hans Edin, Chief Marketing Officer at SecureLink. “Our customers are looking for a pan-European provider who has the breadth and depth of security expertise needed, and is able to deploy and manage this in a consistent manner across geographies.

“We now have a presence in nine countries across Europe, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the UK, Benelux and DACH region. Sharing the same culture, mindset and DNA has made the migration easy and we are now supporting our customers and running at full speed with all the resources and knowhow. Our focus has always been cyber security, allowing us to offer best practice and the latest and greatest knowledge to customers.”

SecureLink has evolved greatly from its early days, continuously adding new layers of solutions and services.

It covers everything you could expect from a market-leading provider such

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SecureLink is always looking forward as a company, particularly when it comes to the projects that enables the customers even more. When looking at the way its customers as managed detection and response, want to consume technology, it assessment and governance services, is clear that customer portals and managed services and 24-seven everything that comes with it will be support services. a game-changer.

“Although we have worked “When it comes to storage I think extensively to upscale our services, we all like how we can scale our we’ve never forgotten our legacy. By usage up or down. Dropbox is a good having the knowledge of yesterday, example; it’s easy, quick and in realtoday and what’s around the corner, time,” Edin describes. “Cyber security our customers are safe knowing will eventually, in some areas, end up that we are at the forefront of the with similar processes. The customer industry,” explains Edin. “Our strength will have full insight and control, and and focus lies in meeting the demands we need to be there enabling these placed upon us by our customers when requests in a secure and safe way. it comes to our services.”

“We need to challenge ourselves with what can be done to simplify Ears to the ground the process for our customers so With its experience in the industry, they have the best security and at SecureLink has perfected its ability to the same time can be as flexible as keep ears to the ground and remain on the business of today demands. At top of the industry demands it is faced the end of the day our customers with. want to have a good night’s sleep “We pride ourselves on remaining knowing that their information is in flexible in our decision-making despite safe hands. On top of that they want our large size as a company,” adds to have a quick response; whenever Edin. “We have been compared to they want, more or less.

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The Rise and Rise of SIEM Organisational leaders today face an increasingly multi-faceted challenge when trying to secure their organisational environments from within, while at the same time adhering to evolving compliance requirements. Compliance and security are no longer siloed disciplines, with new legislation such as GDPR insisting that keeping data safe is a governmental requirement as much as a commercial imperative.

At the same time, networks are becoming more sophisticated, with data held at multiple locations or in the cloud rather than centrally, and spread across many systems. For public and private sector alike this has resulted in a complex security picture that is difficult to control and problematic to understand.

In response to the continuously pressing threat of cyber crime, organisations are turning to a multitude of security vendor technologies to try and mitigate their risk.

However, these technologies - firewalls, email servers, web security - all produce their own unique logging information, but don’t interact with each other. This is where SIEM can help.

SIEM (Security Information Event Management) systems take in data from sources across the infrastructure. This data is collated in a single place, cross-referencing the multiple data inputs to provide a comprehensive real-time understanding of what’s happening throughout the network.

Critically, from a cyber crime perspective, one of the main benefits of SIEM is speed.

No organisation is entirely impervious to an attack, but if you can quickly discover where and how the network has been compromised,

you can more effectively contain damage and get back to business as usual. SIEM instantly flags anomalies, which can be investigated and acted on accordingly.

SIEM technology has never been more relevant, yet there seem to be multiple barriers to using it successfully. SIEM has a more than partially justified reputation as being very expensive, a hassle to install, and so complicated to manage that it requires an army of costly, highly trained people to get the best from it.

Leading SIEM specialists, LogPoint have taken a different approach to this cost and installation dilemma though. By creating a unique licensing model that doesn’t penalise the user for importing more data, the customer is encouraged to use the technology in innovative and forward-looking ways. The contextual understanding of their infrastructure is vastly increased, so positively contributing to organisational insight and ROI, as well as helping spot data breaches quickly and making compliance reporting less time-consuming.

LogPoint’s solution is flexible enough to work with whichever systems are already in place and, by partnering with SecureLink, the IT skills shortage issue is entirely sidestepped, so organisations without the capability to fully utilise the SIEM on their own have access to technical experts who help them get the best from the technology at a level that suits them.

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Securely connecting your people to your most critical applications shouldn’t be left to chance.

Start with Okta. Go Anywhere.

The pace of innovation today is relentless and accelerating, which makes staying up-to-date on the latest solutions that will help employees be more productive, protect their business and increase their bottom line almost impossible. This pace isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

Managing and Securing the Extended Enterprise Today the universe of people that IT needs to manage doesn’t just comprise employees: IT also needs to connect contractors, partners, suppliers, franchisees and more to company resources and tools. That could mean hundreds of times as many people as there are in a core business. At the same time, the number of apps have grown exponentially, as have the devices accessing them.

Identity-driven security is a crucial layer in any modern security stack. Okta’s IT Products are geared towards IT and security leaders. At a high level, these products simplify the way people connect to enterprise technologies, while increasing efficiency and keeping IT environments secure. In today’s perimeter-less world, identity is now the only way to control who has access to what information, when and how.

Transforming the Customer Experience But connecting people and technology now extends beyond even this vast proliferation.

As every company is becoming a technology company, organisations of any size and across all industries are building mobile, web, and API-driven applications, using technology to transform their customers’ experience. To do that effectively, business leaders and developers alike need to find new ways to delight and engage customers, while also keeping their information secure.

This unlocks the ability for any company to use Okta as the identity layer of their customers’ experience.

Okta + Securelink = Strong Delivery of Enterprise Identity and Security

With identity, we have the potential to power a vast transformation in technology — connect any person to any technology, both inside and outside an organization.

“As the foundation for secure connections between people and technology, Okta seeks to work with partners that will help us achieve our vision to enable any company to use any technology — cloud applications, mobile devices and more,” said Nick Miles, Director of Channel EMEA at Okta. “We are excited to work with Securelink, an established partner with considerable expertise in Identity & Access Management, to help support and execute on that vision in Europe. With Okta, Securelink’s clients will be able to give their employees, customers and partners access to the best tools available, while enforcing strong security policies.”

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RAPID7 Your challenges are complex.

The solution doesn’t have to be.

We believe that complete, deep understanding of customer needs is fundamental to successful outcomes.

We recognise that it’s our job to make sure security solutions are working for you - not the otherway around.

SecureLink and Rapid7 are working together to safely enable businesses in an increasingly connected world through industry-leading products and services across web and application security, malware, endpoint security, data protection, cloud security, vulnerability management, incident detection and response, and more.

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“Security is an enabler rather than a showstopper. Only with a parachute do you have the proper equipment in place to actually take the jump, while having fun at the same time. We see ourselves as easy to do business with, and although today’s businesses can just about live without a sophisticated portal, we will soon take the customer experience to the next level within cyber security.”

Industry-specific skills

One of the biggest challenges for companies in the IT business is finding the right people, with the right skills, for the job. In efforts to enhance skillsets within the market, SecureLink has created a university which provides a training programme for students.

“Our university enables the students to expand their skills and become a part of the SecureLink family, alongside activities that will make them an even bigger asset to our team,” states Edin. “We hope that this

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will, together with other activities, make us more attractive to younger people that are aiming to start their career in cyber security.

“We have a great mix of people from all over the world. Despite the large array of people applying to work with us, it is still hard to find the right fit because of our demands.”

Investing in tomorrow

Despite the ever-expanding size of SecureLink, the Company remains incredibly careful when choosing what investments to make. Strategic investments over several years have resulted in a strong company. Some of the focus is now on maintaining and expanding the new SecureLink offices across Europe.

There are many areas of business, particularly within the UK and Germany, that SecureLink can move into while building and establishing its business there.

“Right now, Germany is a fairly new area for us and it is a transition that we are working on as we speak,” explains Edin. “We have to work on our brand awareness in these new areas, as well as brand value to ensure that people realise we are the natural partner for their business.”

In the cyber security industry you can never stand still. To stay on top, and remain attractive as an employer, SecureLink is investing in its consultants, experts and specialists so customers are provided with the best recommendations cbased on their their risk appetite, needs and demands.

Edin concludes: “We take pride in our knowledge within cyber security.

Our philosophy is very simple: we empower organisations to protect themselves in an increasingly online world so that they can maintain the trust and confidence of their customers. Put simply, we safely enable business.”

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