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Three-Year Managed Security Partnership with a Global Manufacturing Group

Three years, eight countries, and a security function the group never had to hire

Client: Global Manufacturing Group

3 years
Continuous engagement — still active
8
Countries covered
ISO 27001
Certification achieved for flagship entity
0
Material security incidents during engagement

The Challenge

Scaling Security Operations Without Scaling Headcount

A diversified manufacturing conglomerate operated across eight countries with no internal security team and no SOC. Each site had made its own decisions about patching, access and backup, and none of it was reported centrally. A ransomware incident at one subsidiary took a plant offline and made the gap a board matter — but the group could not justify building and staffing a SOC of its own.

  • No internal security team and no SOC at any of the eight country operations
  • A ransomware incident at a subsidiary had already taken a plant offline
  • Patching, access and backup decided site by site and reported nowhere centrally
  • Volumes that could not justify building and staffing an in-house SOC

The Solution

Embedded Managed Security Partner Across All Sites

Security Brigade took the security operations function outright rather than supplementing it — continuous monitoring, incident response, the annual assessment programme and CISO-level advisory across every site. The engagement was sequenced deliberately: understand the estate first, test it second, monitor it continuously third, with the board seeing the same picture throughout.

Services used

Managed SecurityVAPTIncident Response

Our approach

  1. 01Year 1: baseline assessment across all eight countries, a group incident-response plan, and Lemon onboarding for every site
  2. 02Year 2: full VAPT programme across the estate, plus a red team exercise against the two most critical plants
  3. 03Year 3: continuous ShadowMap monitoring of the external estate and an ISO 27001 readiness programme
  4. 04Ongoing: dedicated analyst team, four-hour incident-response SLA, quarterly reporting to the board

The Results

Enterprise-Grade Security Without Building an In-House SOC

The group moved from learning about incidents after the fact to seeing them as they happened, and reached ISO 27001 certification in the third year. The engagement is still running: the security function exists, and the headcount was never hired.

3 years
Continuous engagement — still active
8
Countries covered
ISO 27001
Certification achieved for flagship entity
0
Material security incidents during engagement

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