Sony Streamlines Security Solution Purchasing with Private Marketplace

Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include electronics, gaming, movies, and music. Sony was looking to make software and services more easily available to its staff. The company wanted employees to have the freedom to quickly adapt as needs changed. With most of its needs focused around security and third-party monitoring, Sony had been working with Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader. The company moved purchasing of Trend Micro’s solutions from a purchase order process to an AWS Marketplace Private Marketplace, a customized, private catalog of approved products available in AWS Marketplace. By doing so, it reduced the time for users to procure approved software from 60 days to a few minutes.