Case Study: One of the Largest Utility Companies in the Southern U.S. achieves $100K+ savings and 24x7 MDR security with Critical Start

Devising a Strategy that Secures and Saves Money

Largest Utility Company needed expert help to architect a stronger, cost-effective security strategy and turned to Critical Start’s Cybersecurity Consulting team to evaluate their existing technologies and processes and recommend a world-class approach that reused current investments and integrated new tools as needed.

Critical Start identified ways to reuse the customer’s SSL decryption and next‑generation firewall capabilities, immediately saving the Largest Utility Company over $100K, and designed a modular strategy to avoid unnecessary spend. Critical Start then brought in its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team to provide 24x7x365 monitoring and Level 1 incident response, delivering a full security operations model without additional internal staffing.