Case Study: Pharmaceutical Company improves security and meets compliance with Optiv

Pharmaceutical Company Discovers Gaps and Improves Security through In-Depth Assessment

Pharmaceutical Company, a large organization with about 1,000 employees, needed to protect sensitive research, design, manufacturing, and financial information while meeting strict internal compliance requirements. The company turned to Optiv for an external penetration test and in-depth security assessment to better understand its environment’s security gaps and identify vulnerabilities before attackers could exploit them.

Optiv performed blind public-information gathering, vulnerability analysis, focused penetration testing, and exploitation testing to simulate real attack scenarios against the Pharmaceutical Company’s environment. As a result, the customer uncovered previously unknown security issues, received specific remediation recommendations, and met internal compliance requirements while keeping its security team focused on other priorities.