Case Study: Large Automobile Company achieves improved security posture and incident response readiness with Mandiant

Large Automobile Maker Enriches Its Security Posture

Large Automobile Company suffered a major breach that exposed gaps across people, processes and technology and recognized it remained a high-value target. To assess and strengthen its security operations and incident response, the company engaged Mandiant to perform a Response Readiness Assessment evaluating its SOC and IR capabilities against industry best practices.

Mandiant identified operational gaps across six core competencies and delivered a two‑year roadmap; the vendor helped implement 24/7 global monitoring, a SIEM and EDR, automated case management, prescriptive incident playbooks, formalized threat intelligence and stakeholder reporting, and a metrics program (DRAIN/CVR). These changes reduced staff time spent tracking incidents, improved detection and containment workflows, shortened time to remediation, and drove measured maturity improvements from an Absent/Ad Hoc/Initial posture in 2016 to Optimized by 2018, with positive executive appraisal and ongoing annual assessments by Mandiant.