Case Study: Large Public Energy Utility Company achieves enhanced internal visibility and rapid threat detection with Attivo Networks ThreatDefend platform

Major Energy Provider Chooses Deception Technology to Better Protect Critical Assets

A Large Public Energy Utility Company faced limited internal visibility and inadequate detection for insider threats and post-perimeter compromises across a complex environment that included SCADA, datacenter, and user systems. To add a proactive defense layer without increasing workload, the customer selected Attivo Networks and deployed the ThreatDefend™ deception platform, including BOTsink engagement servers and Attivo Central Manager.

Attivo Networks implemented ThreatDefend with BOTsink and centralized management, integrating deception into the existing security stack and feeding alerts to the organization’s SIEM and ticketing systems. The deployment quickly uncovered misconfigurations and other issues—providing an almost immediate return on investment—required no additional staff to operate, improved detection and incident response, and left the organization confident it can detect and slow sophisticated or insider attacks.