Case Study: East Coast Metal Distributors achieves rapid containment of a crypto virus with Huntress

Huntress Helps East Coast Metal Distributors Quash an Encryption Virus

East Coast Metal Distributors, a Durham-based HVAC wholesaler with 48 branches, faced a fast-spreading crypto virus that began encrypting files across their environment. William Garner, VP of IT, working with outsourced IT provider Logically, turned to Huntress and its managed detection and response platform to augment their existing security layers and improve detection and response capabilities.

Huntress was deployed quickly and non-intrusively, working alongside East Coast and Logically to trace the attack, identify the point of entry, and contain the outbreak to just 10 servers. Huntress’s incident work enabled a clear chain-of-events, faster recovery of services, and gave the team confidence that the encryption was contained and remediation could proceed.

East Coast Metal Distributors

William Garner

Vice President of Information Technology