Case Study: US Communication Infrastructure Service Provider stops ransomware and shadow IT with Guardicore

This US communication infrastructure provider ensures businesses and residents stay connected in today’s fast-paced world. It’s responsible for an extensive network of cell towers and fiber networks that customers rely on in their daily lives.

US Communication Infrastructure Service Provider, a U.S.-based communications infrastructure provider operating a fleet of 6,000+ Windows laptops, needed better endpoint visibility and control to reduce ransomware risk and curb shadow IT. The company turned to Guardicore and its Centra Platform to gain granular visibility into laptop activity and stronger segmentation controls across employee devices.

With Guardicore’s streamlined Windows agent and Centra Security Platform, the team quickly deployed endpoint visibility, created centralized policies, and blocked RDP across all protected endpoints when suspicious brute-force activity was detected. Guardicore stopped the attack before any endpoint was compromised, helping the customer avoid a potential ransomware incident and an estimated $1 million+ in losses, while also preventing unauthorized shadow IT activity.