Case Study: Global Aviation Manufacturer achieves enterprise-wide ransomware protection and ISO readiness with Secureworks

Cybersecurity is important for all companies. But when you serve and share data with airlines, it’s imperative

A holding company Secureworks supports — a preeminent manufacturing partner provider in the Americas with four facilities in three countries serving major airlines — faced disparate systems from acquisitions, uneven IT maturity (including an almost entirely paper-based site), geographic staffing shortages, and rising cyber threats that jeopardized revenue, production (75 production lines), ISO certification, and reputation. Leadership determined building a large internal security team would be too slow and costly and sought an external partner, selecting Secureworks and its Taegis-powered, 24/7 managed security services.

Secureworks deployed round-the-clock threat tracking and protection and partnered with the company to build a lean six-person internal team, extending the firm’s security capability across 10,000 employees and multiple sites. The program is estimated to save roughly $6M/year from avoided ransomware, $1.8M/year from prevented breaches, protect ~$2M/week in profits and ~$300K/hour from avoided downtime, double the security team’s effectiveness, enable pursuit of ISO certification, and potentially increase revenue by 5–6% while reducing insurance costs 5–10%.