Case Study: Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) achieves ransomware protection and faster threat detection with Trend Micro Deep Discovery and Deep Security

RNDC protects the heart of their organization from ransomware

Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) is the second‑largest U.S. distributor of premium wines and spirits, with a family‑owned heritage and about 8,000 employees operating a highly virtualized, hybrid IT environment. Because orders, warehouse automation and delivery routing depend on uninterrupted data flow, RNDC faced rising ransomware and advanced persistent threats that exploit everyday protocols and lateral movement — a risk made worse by thousands of external data sources, mobile devices and unsupported legacy servers.

Working with Softchoice, RNDC deployed Trend Micro Deep Discovery for network‑wide detection and Deep Security for virtual patching and IPS protection of legacy and cloud workloads. Deep Discovery exposed and stopped covert attacks (identifying threats within minutes) and Deep Security prolonged legacy hardware life while automating protections under a single pane of glass. The solution delivered ROI within a year, alerted RNDC to multiple daily attacks, and has prevented any security incident from disrupting sales or shipping since implementation.

Republic National Distributing Company

John Dickson

Director, IT Infrastructure