Case Study: du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company) achieves 80% audit cost reduction and 80% faster time-to-market with the Qualys Private Cloud Platform

du Uses Continuous Security Monitoring to Reduce Auditing Costs by 80% and Accelerate the Launch of New Services

du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company) is a UAE national telecom provider serving over seven million customers with mobile, fixed-line, broadband and IPTV services. Faced with a highly complex, heterogeneous network and time-consuming manual certification processes, du struggled with costly configuration audits and delays that slowed the launch of new revenue-generating services.

du deployed the Qualys Private Cloud Platform (Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance and Web Application Scanning) to automate continuous scanning, enforce policy templates mapped to NIST/CIS and centralize remediation workflows. The result: audit costs dropped by about 80%, time-to-market for new services improved by ~80%, compliance and reporting were automated for internal and customer environments, and du turned the platform into a managed security offering—keeping data in the UAE while creating new revenue streams.

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Roshan Daluwakgoda

Senior Director, Managed Services