Why ControlScan Managed Detection and Response?

ControlScan performs Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for organizations that don’t have the internal bandwidth to keep a vigilant watch over the security events in their IT environment. We employ the right people and the right processes to efficiently supplement your organization’s cybersecurity management efforts.

Our team identifies intrusions as they are happening, so you can extract them from your environment before any damage is done by:

• Defining, implementing and updating security rules
• Running targeted threat hunting sequences to trace anomalies
• Examining alerts to separate true concerns from false positives
• Addressing and appropriately escalating threats in real-time

What sets us apart?

ControlScan MDR includes monitoring for syslog devices such as Network Devices, POS Systems, etc. But those devices are not counted as an endpoint with licensing. Those systems are integrated into logging during the onboarding process.

Many MDR providers dictate that their response to be a notification to the customer that an event has occurred, with no active further investigation or hands-on remediation of the threat and affected systems. ControlScan provides hands-on true “response”. Our analysts perform extensive investigation and correlation of any event on the customer network and performing the necessary actions in real time to ensure the customer environment remains protected.

Our Cyphon platform will hash known bad viruses and can monitor any new threat.

What is included with ControlScan MDR?

As part of our MDR service, we collect, aggregate and normalize your organization's log data from servers, endpoints, applications and security devices for compliance and infrastructure management. Our expert security analysts monitor and analyze your log events, freeing up your IT resources to focus on growing your business.

The ControlScan Security Operations Center (SOC) captures and compiles data from both physical and digital sources to develop a level of decision support not possible in a standard monitoring environment. This process combines our people, processes, and technology to analyze and act on robust data sets - allowing us to see the whole picture of an enterprise. We keep your business optimized and running no matter what challenges arise.

Our SOC runs 24x7 and is staffed by highly trained SecOps personnel. Located in Hunt Valley, Maryland, the SOC is a secure facility featuring video surveillance, biometric access control, redundant fiber-optic Internet connectivity, and battery and diesel redundant power.

24x7 Managed Detection and Response of threats and attacks against your systems and networks.
ControlScan provides a fully managed solution incorporating:

• Log Collection and Correlation
• Monitoring and identification of anomalies and security threats in your organization.
• Cloud Application Monitoring for Office 365, Gmail, on-premise Microsoft Exchange
• ControlScan provided Next Generation Endpoint Protection
• File Integrity Monitoring with 3 or 12 months of retention (MDR and MDR+)
• Interactive web-based dashboards
• Cloud Productivity Tool Connectors (Office 365 or Google GSuite)
• Command and Control Traffic; Identify source/ block and quarantine quickly
• Defend against spray password attacks
• Disable Account Access Attempts
• Defend Network Probing
• Identify Rogue Machines

ControlScan MDR replaces traditional Log Collection (SIEM) and Endpoint (Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware) solutions.

Installation

ControlScan MDR provides a consolidated installer that is easy to use and deploy, with only four clicks to completion on average. The installer also supports centralized deployment through any existing software management systems in place (SCCM, Active Directory, etc.)

PCI Fulfillment

MDR can assist in completing sections of PCI requirements:

• Requirement 3: Protect stored cardholder data
• Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software
• Requirement 10: Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data

Questions?  Contact me today.

Joe Gaeta
ControlScan
Direct: 678-694-0687
Mobile: 404-435-7376
jgaeta@controlscan.com

Managed Endpoint Security from ControlScan

Stop advanced threats from infiltrating your systems.

As technology continues to advance, so does malware. Today’s advanced cybersecurity threats are bypassing traditional antivirus technology. Malware creators are becoming more innovative, creative and better funded. The proliferation of online accounts, integrated applications and devices allows multiple points for malware to enter a network and introduce even more challenges for IT administrators.

The Essential Solution for Endpoint Security

The ControlScan MDR Essential service provides the necessary next-generation endpoint protection for businesses to address today’s challenges in protecting valuable assets. Through the service, managed endpoint security helps prevent, detect and respond to advanced threats—including ransomware—by leveraging live threat data to identify as well as block and remove threats that traditional antivirus is unable to recognize.

Key benefits of the ControlScan MDR Essential Service

Using the power of real-time threat detection with constant threat feed updates, the ControlScan MDR Essential solution helps stop advanced threats from infiltrating your systems.

• ControlScan has your back:  Our innovative endpoint software is managed and deployed by your team and then backed by the ControlScan Security Operations Center (SOC). 24x7x365 support provides assistance with managing and maintaining the security and protection of your assets. Each of your servers, desktops and laptops remain secure, because the ControlScan security operations specialists are available to assist your team with issues or questions at any time.
• Reduced operating costs:  A breakdown in security can bring employee productivity to a halt, and this downtime can significantly impact your bottom line. Malware can attack multiple endpoints at once, taking weeks to exterminate, but with the ControlScan MDR Essential service, you can keep the gears of your business in motion and your valuable assets protected.
• Next-gen innovative security solution:  In order to secure your organization, you need an additional layer of protection to help thwart targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats. The ControlScan MDR Essential service provides this additional layer of protection using innovative, best-in-class technology that delivers prevention and remediation through advanced artificial intelligence, behavioral monitoring, and the most advanced threat detection capabilities.
• An agile security solution:  ControlScan MDR Essential offers protection for any size organization or IT environment. Moreover, our solution can grow and scale with your business.
• Robust and comprehensive reporting:  You won’t feel in the dark or worry if your endpoint solution is deployed correctly. We provide real-time, self-service dashboards showing the deployments of your solution, along with proactive alerting if assets within your organization stop reporting for extended periods of time.
• Baked-in compliance:  In order to achieve and maintain compliance with certain security and privacy standards, companies must actively manage antivirus and malware prevention systems and prove that the solutions are operational and up to date. The ControlScan MDR Essential service helps your business specifically comply with PCI DSS and HIPAA antivirus and host-based intrusion prevention requirements.

Why You Need the ControlScan MDR Essential Service

ControlScan takes a revolutionary approach to endpoint protection. It begins with a fully managed solution that is maintained by the award-winning ControlScan Security Operations team to actively detect and prevent security threats across your systems. Then, it extends beyond threat detection and prevention to include active response to threats, thereby quickly taking action to stop and clean up threats identified in your systems. 

By correlating threat indicators, the ControlScan MDR Essential service blocks system and application exploits, potentially unwanted apps, ransomware, and malicious code from negatively impacting your endpoints.

Core features include:

• Antivirus and Anti-malware protection
• Advanced Machine Learning exploit prevention
• Ransomware detection and prevention
• Advanced threat indicators of attack identification
• In depth threat details and root cause analysis
• Remediation and malware removal support

Ready to see how the ControlScan MDR Essential service can make your business more secure? Contact me today or schedule a call with me here.

...but what if you cannot afford a fully-staffed cybersecurity team?

According to a recent piece on HelpNetSecurity.com, fully staffed teams are more confident in their ability to respond to cyberthreats.  I encourage you to read the full article HERE.

But what if you cannot afford a fully-staffed team? That's a big investment:  To have 24/7 detection and response to threats, an organization would need three full-time cybersecurity professionals on the payroll at minimum.  Full salary plus benefits and all the other HR expenses.

That's where ControlScan Managed Detection and Response (MDR) can help.  

ControlScan performs Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for organizations that don’t have the internal bandwidth to keep a vigilant watch over the security events in their IT environment. We employ the right people and the right processes to efficiently supplement your organization’s cybersecurity management efforts.

Our team identifies intrusions as they are happening, so you can extract them from your environment before any damage is done by:

• Defining, implementing and updating security rules
• Running targeted threat hunting sequences to trace anomalies
• Examining alerts to separate true concerns from false positives
• Addressing and appropriately escalating threats in real-time

What sets us apart?

ControlScan MDR includes monitoring for syslog devices such as Network Devices, POS Systems, etc. But those devices are not counted as an endpoint with licensing. Those systems are integrated into logging during the onboarding process.

Many MDR providers dictate that their response to be a notification to the customer that an event has occurred, with no active further investigation or hands-on remediation of the threat and affected systems. ControlScan provides hands-on true “response”. Our analysts perform extensive investigation and correlation of any event on the customer network and performing the necessary actions in real time to ensure the customer environment remains protected.

Our Cyphon platform will hash known bad viruses and can monitor any new threat.

What is included with ControlScan MDR?

As part of our MDR service, we collect, aggregate and normalize your organization's log data from servers, endpoints, applications and security devices for compliance and infrastructure management. Our expert security analysts monitor and analyze your log events, freeing up your IT resources to focus on growing your business.

The ControlScan Security Operations Center (SOC) captures and compiles data from both physical and digital sources to develop a level of decision support not possible in a standard monitoring environment. This process combines our people, processes, and technology to analyze and act on robust data sets - allowing us to see the whole picture of an enterprise. We keep your business optimized and running no matter what challenges arise.

Our SOC runs 24x7 and is staffed by highly trained SecOps personnel. Located in Hunt Valley, Maryland, the SOC is a secure facility featuring video surveillance, biometric access control, redundant fiber-optic Internet connectivity, and battery and diesel redundant power.

24x7 Managed Detection and Response of threats and attacks against your systems and networks.
ControlScan provides a fully managed solution incorporating:

• Log Collection and Correlation
• Monitoring and identification of anomalies and security threats in your organization.
• Cloud Application Monitoring for Office 365, Gmail, on-premise Microsoft Exchange
• ControlScan provided Next Generation Endpoint Protection
• File Integrity Monitoring with 3 or 12 months of retention (MDR and MDR+)
• Interactive web-based dashboards
• Cloud Productivity Tool Connectors (Office 365 or Google GSuite)
• Command and Control Traffic; Identify source/ block and quarantine quickly
• Defend against spray password attacks
• Disable Account Access Attempts
• Defend Network Probing
• Identify Rogue Machines

ControlScan MDR replaces traditional Log Collection (SIEM) and Endpoint (Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware) solutions.

Questions?  Contact me today.

Joe Gaeta
ControlScan
Direct: 678-694-0687
Mobile: 404-435-7376
jgaeta@controlscan.com

Did you miss ControlScan's latest MDR webinar? Good news! Download the replay...

On Tuesday, September 17th, ControlScan's Director of MDR Operations, Tom Callahan, led a webinar entitled "How SMBs Can Benefit from the Latest MDR Trends".  If  you missed it, we are happy to provide you with a replay.  You can download it HERE.

Every business today must have a robust cybersecurity program in place to protect itself and its customers. Smaller and mid-sized businesses in particular are discovering that managed detection and response (MDR) services can provide the cost-effective, turnkey threat detection and incident response capabilities that they require.

The 2019 Managed Detection and Response Report (available soon), sponsored by ControlScan, is based on the results of a comprehensive survey of 385 IT and cybersecurity professionals. In teh webinar we walk through these results and their specific application to the SMB.

In this educational webinar you will learn:

• The 7 critical security operations challenges MDR services resolve;

• Why effective endpoint security is a key component of MDR; and

• How to cost-effectively implement and quickly see a return on your MDR investment.

Contact me today to learn more about ControlScan MDR.

ControlScan Partners with CrowdStrike to Deliver Powerful Endpoint Protection to the SMB with MDR Essential

The fully managed solution extends ControlScan Managed Detection and Response services to help smaller businesses access essential endpoint protections

ATLANTA, Sept. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ControlScan, a leader in managed security services specializing in compliance, detection and response, today announced general availability of its MDR Essential managed endpoint security service. The new service leverages the ControlScan Cyphon™ and the CrowdStrike Falcon® platforms to deliver fundamentally important endpoint detection, prevention and response capabilities to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).

SMBs often struggle with the entry point to a stronger security posture. Many do not have dedicated security personnel, nor do they have the expertise needed to select and implement effective endpoint security.

“MDR Essential is our point of entry solution for businesses needing to get essential security coverage in place, immediately, without breaking the bank,” said Tom Callahan, director of MDR Operations, ControlScan. “Our partnership with CrowdStrike allows us to further extend the industry-leading Falcon endpoint solution with the talents of our in-house security analysts and our 24x7x365 SOC for MDR.”

The CrowdStrike Falcon platform is the only solution to unify key endpoint security capabilities such as next-generation anti-virus (NGAV), endpoint detection and response (EDR), managed threat hunting, IT hygiene and threat intelligence, all delivered through a single, intelligent, lightweight agent. CrowdStrike’s innovative, cloud-native technology allows organizations to quickly and easily deploy the platform at scale to secure workloads across on-premise, virtualized, and cloud-based environments running on a variety of endpoints on or off the network.

“The increasingly complex threat environment has demonstrated that threat actors are not afraid to take aim at organizations of any size. SMBs are particularly susceptible to cyberattacks, given that they often lack the necessary resources to provide the required protection to secure their assets,” said Matthew Polly, vice president of Worldwide Channels and Business Development, CrowdStrike. “We are proud to partner with ControlScan to bring the powerful endpoint detection and response of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to the MDR Essential solution. Together, we will fortify the defenses of vulnerable SMBs against devastating attacks so that they may continue to focus on the growth and health of their business.”

MDR Essential is also available as a value add for organizations with merchant portfolios, such as managed service providers (MSPs), value added resellers (VARs) and payments technology providers. Through its partner ecosystem, ControlScan delivers managed endpoint security and other threat detection and response services to hundreds of organizations throughout North America.

MDR Webinar tomorrow! Join us!

Tuesday, September 17th at 2:00 pm Eastern

Every business today must have a robust cybersecurity program in place to protect itself and its customers. Smaller and mid-sized businesses in particular are discovering that managed detection and response (MDR) services can provide the cost-effective, turnkey threat detection and incident response capabilities that they require.

The 2019 Managed Detection and Response Report (available soon), sponsored by ControlScan, is based on the results of a comprehensive survey of 385 IT and cybersecurity professionals. Join us as we will walk through these results and their specific application to the SMB.

Attend this educational webinar and learn:

• The 7 critical security operations challenges MDR services resolve;
• Why effective endpoint security is a key component of MDR; and
• How to cost-effectively implement and quickly see a return on your MDR investment.

CLICK HERE to register. Or, contact me today to learn more about ControlScan MDR.

UPCOMING WEBINAR: Managed Detection and Response (MDR): How SMBs Can Benefit from the Latest Trends

Tuesday, September 17th at 2:00 pm Eastern

Every business today must have a robust cybersecurity program in place to protect itself and its customers. Smaller and mid-sized businesses in particular are discovering that managed detection and response (MDR) services can provide the cost-effective, turnkey threat detection and incident response capabilities that they require.

The 2019 Managed Detection and Response Report (available soon), sponsored by ControlScan, is based on the results of a comprehensive survey of 385 IT and cybersecurity professionals. Join us as we will walk through these results and their specific application to the SMB.

Attend this educational webinar and learn:

• The 7 critical security operations challenges MDR services resolve;
• Why effective endpoint security is a key component of MDR; and
• How to cost-effectively implement and quickly see a return on your MDR investment.

CLICK HERE to register. Or, contact me today to learn more about ControlScan MDR.

ControlScan and Cybersecurity Insiders Release New Managed Detection and Response Research Report

Business leaders share their current cybersecurity challenges, as well as drivers for procuring managed security services to effectively address today’s advanced threats.

ATLANTA, Sept. 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ControlScan, a leader in managed security Cybersecurity Insiders to produce an all-new industry research report. The 2019 Managed Detection and Response Report reveals current security program challenges and illustrates why and how organizations outsource for managed detection and response (MDR) as well as advanced endpoint security.
services specializing in compliance, detection and response, has collaborated with

According to the report, more than half (53%) of businesses surveyed are managing their security programs entirely in-house. Of these, 41% said “speed of incident response issues” are a key business challenge. Moreover, this same group of respondents indicated they had not experienced a security incident in the past 12 months (as opposed to 23% for the entire survey sample), and, therefore, were potentially unaware of any past occurrences and/or active security threats.

“For most businesses, staying on top of today’s advanced security threats is a significant undertaking,” said Tom Callahan, director of MDR Operations, ControlScan. “We commissioned this research to better understand how companies are acknowledging and addressing these challenges.”

Altogether, survey respondents selected the following as their top three security operations challenges:<

• Cybersecurity skills shortage in-house (58%);
• Cost and complexity of building in-house (49%); and
• Lack of 24x7 security coverage (37%).

“Many businesses are just beginning to learn about managed detection and response services,” said Holger Schulze, CEO and founder of Cybersecurity Insiders. “MDR delivers value to the small and medium enterprise in particular, because internal resource constraints often limit their ability to spot and react to network intruders.”

To download a complimentary copy of the 2019 Managed Detection and Response Report, visit ControlScan.com/2019-mdr-research-report. For more information on ControlScan Managed Detection and Response, please visit ControlScan.com/MDR. For more information on Cybersecurity Insiders, visit Cybersecurity-Insiders.com.

About the Survey 
The 2019 Managed Detection and Response Report is based on the results of a comprehensive online survey of 385 IT and cybersecurity professionals conducted in July and August of 2019. The survey’s respondents range from technical executives to senior managers and IT security practitioners, across the spectrum of company sizes and industries, representing a balanced cross-section of organizations.

About ControlScan                                                  
ControlScan managed security and compliance solutions help secure IT networks and protect payment card data. Thousands of businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada partner with us for easy, cost-effective access to the expertise, technologies and services that keep cyber criminals and data thieves at bay. With highly credentialed cybersecurity and compliance experts, 24x7 managed detection and response, advanced endpoint protection, managed UTM firewall services, ASV vulnerability scanning, QSA and HIPAA assessments, security penetration testing, PCI compliance programs and more, we’ve got your back. For more information visit ControlScan.com.

About Cybersecurity Insiders
Cybersecurity Insiders is an online community of information security professionals to provide a comprehensive, one-stop source for everything related to cybersecurity – connecting people, opportunity, and ideas. For more information visit Cybersecurity-Insiders.com.

Introducing MDR Essential from CrontrolScan

ControlScan MDR Essential is a new solution that was built with the security and budget conscious consumer in mind. It leverages ControlScan’s existing, award-winning managed threat detection and response solution to provide an essential set of protections and services to our customers, keeping them safe, while not breaking the bank.

MDR Essential is powered by the ControlScan Cyphon(TM) and the CrowdStrike Falcon® platforms.  It provides fundamentally important capabilities as a cost effective 24x7 service, including fully managed, next generation anti-virus and anti-malware technologies; tamper protection to ensure you stay protected, even from advanced attacks; integrated Threat Intelligence managed by our 24x7 Security Operations Centers; and active threat response from malware, ransomware, and behavioral detection. What's more, this is all backed and led by our security operations team in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

Watch the video (8m 41s), then visit https://www.controlscan.com/mdr-essential/ to get started.

ControlScan Now Offers Its Managed Detection and Response Services to Businesses Using Microsoft Office 365

Real-time security monitoring of on-premise and cloud-based environments helps resource-constrained businesses avoid cybercrime.

ATLANTA, Dec. 12, 2018 - ControlScan, a leader in managed security and compliance solutions that help secure networks and protect payment card data, today announced that its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services are now available to businesses utilizing Microsoft Office 365. The move further assists businesses that struggle with timely threat detection and incident response due to a lean IT staff and/or limited information security expertise.

An additional risk for businesses with Office 365 implementations is the lack of visibility to systems and data flows in the cloud, which can create a security monitoring gap. This is especially true of businesses that have not invested in the higher-priced license levels. The ControlScan MDR service works with all Microsoft Office 365 license models and includes 24x7 security monitoring and event correlation, file integrity monitoring (FIM) and more.

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“Deploying Office 365 provides limited insights to your account activity, but without significant licensing increases, there’s no way to monitor and detect for malicious behaviors,” said Tom Callahan, Director of Operations, MDR, ControlScan. “ControlScan adds the
real-time threat monitoring and intrusion detection layer, while also capturing historical account activity so you can perform audits or
forensics at any future date.”

Analysts in the ControlScan 24x7 Security Operations Center (SOC) provide continuous monitoring to the customer’s Office 365 environment activity in real-time, analyzing contextual information and watching for advanced security threats, such as file changes and other unusual activity in SharePoint and OneDrive, as well as correlating with the threat behavior activity Microsoft provides with their more advanced licensing models. If any malicious or unwanted activity is detected, the SOC analysts immediately go to work to contain and remediate it.

For more information on ControlScan managed security and MDR services, please visit ControlScan.com.

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About ControlScan                                                 

ControlScan managed security and compliance solutions help secure IT networks and protect payment card data. Thousands of businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada partner with us for easy, cost-effective access to the expertise, technologies and services that keep cyber criminals and data thieves at bay. With highly-credentialed cybersecurity and compliance experts, 24x7 managed detection and response, advanced endpoint protection, managed UTM firewall services, ASV vulnerability scanning, QSA and HIPAA assessments, security penetration testing, PCI compliance programs and more, we’ve got your back. For more information visit ControlScan.com.

The more cybersecurity tools an enterprise deploys, the less effective their defense is.

That's according to IBM's fifth annual Cyber Resilient Organization Report. Research suggests that, although cybersecurity investment and planning are increasing steadily, the actual effectiveness of a company's defense is not.

Why? Too many tools and increased complexity.

Contact me today to learn how ControlScan can reverse this trend for you with our Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service.  With ControlScan MDR, you essentially hire us to function as your threat detection and response team!  We provide 24/7/365 protection with our advanced software, artificial intelligence, and our security analysts in our Security Operation Center. 

For a monthly or annual fee, ControlScan MDR provides:

• Managed next-generation anti-virus/anti-malware
• Managed threat intelligence
• Endpoint detection
• Incident response
• Log event collection and correlation (Managed SIEM)
• Proactive threat hunting
• File integrity monitoring
• SaaS threat monitoring (Cloud IaaS and PaaS)
• Log data retention

Reduce the complexity.  Reduce to cost.

Increase the protection.  ControlScan MDR.

ControlScan MDR: Can you afford to wait?

Here is a startling fact from ControlScan's Director of MDR Operations:

Roughly 30% of customers on-boarded to our MDR services in the past couple months had pre-existing malicious activity inside their networks detected within hours! All had anti-virus and anti-malware software running previously.

How confident are you that your network is secure? Learn how ControlScan MDR can help you.
Contact me today.

Financial Services Firm Cutter, LLC Chooses ControlScan for Managed Security Threat Detection and Response

Cybersecurity risk reduction a prime motivator for Cutter, which holds multiple portfolios of small and mid-sized merchants.

ATLANTA, Dec. 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ControlScan, a leader in managed security services specializing in compliance, detection and response, has been chosen by Cutter to help the financial services firm reduce its cybersecurity risk. According to the newly signed agreement, ControlScan will provide Cutter with 24x7 threat detection and response as a managed security service.

According to the ControlScan 2019 Managed Detection and Response Report, IT teams spend an average of 40 hours per month monitoring endpoints and security logs. Because of this, 62 percent are at best only moderately confident in their ability to respond to a cyberattack. Cutter recognized its ability to reduce this risk in their own business by utilizing the ControlScan Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service.

“Cutter purchases portfolios and residual streams and manages every portfolio, each containing hundreds if not thousands of small and mid-sized merchants,” said Denise Shomo, President, Cutter, LLC. “ControlScan’s MDR service gives us confidence that qualified security analysts are watching our IT environment around the clock, ensuring that the data we’re entrusted with doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.”

“Cutter’s leadership team has taken the time to understand the business’s cybersecurity risk,” said Chris Bucolo, SVP Market Strategy, ControlScan. “Through this up-front investment, as well as implementing 24x7 threat detection and response, Cutter has proactively taken control of its security posture.”

The ControlScan MDR service leverages the company’s security operations center (SOC) and its proprietary SIEM platform, Cyphon, which captures and compiles data from both physical and digital sources. This elite combination of people, processes and technology provides Cutter with a managed security partnership they can rely on.

ControlScan is also a longtime PCI program partner for Cutter. Since 2010, ControlScan has helped thousands of merchants within Cutter’s portfolios achieve and maintain compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

For more information about ControlScan and its range of managed security services, please visit ControlScan.com/MSS.

About ControlScan
ControlScan managed security and compliance solutions help secure IT networks and protect payment card data. Thousands of businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada partner with us for easy, cost-effective access to the expertise, technologies and services that keep cyber criminals and data thieves at bay. With highly credentialed cybersecurity and compliance experts; 24x7 managed detection and response; managed UTM firewall services; ASV vulnerability scanning; security penetration testing; PCI compliance programs; QSA, QSA(P2PE), QPA and HIPAA assessments; and more, we’ve got your back. 

For more information visit ControlScan.com.

About Cutter, LLC
David Daily, CEO of Cutter, founded the company in 2006 with a primary focus of helping ISOs and merchant level sales (MLSs) leverage the value of their residual income streams. At the time, he saw an increased need to provide them with an avenue to sell their residuals. Originally based in Franklin, Tenn., Cutter has grown to 22 employees and is now headquartered in Wyomissing Pa., with branches in Birmingham, Ala., and Franklin. Since its inception, Cutter has completed hundreds of portfolio acquisitions and is now actively pursuing other types of purchases to include software companies with SaaS revenues and ISVs. 

For more information, visit Cutterfinancial.com.

ControlScan Press Contact
Stacey Holleran
Director, Corporate Communications
678-694-0654
sholleran@controlscan.com

The perfect CyberSecurity companion to your network's firewall...

Security is not about point solutions, it is about protection in depth.

There are new types of threats every day. Firewalls are essential.  Managed Endpoint Security from ControlScan goes above and beyond.

Introducing MDR Essential from ControlScan.  

By combining MDR Essential with a firewall, you can replace traditional anti-virus and anti-malware software while adding 24x7x365 monitoring.

With MDR Essential from ControScan, you get:

• Next Generation Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware/Anti-Ransomware
• Backed by industry leading threat intelligence from Crowdstrike
• All aspects of Policies, Whitelisting/Blacklisting, and Threat Intelligence management handled by ControlScan's Security Operations Center (SOC) team
• Traditional Hash or Pattern based detection PLUS Behavioral Threat Detection through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Immediate Protection (No lead-up/training time.)
• Incident Response
• Up to 40 hours per month of hands-on incident response activities
• Automated Response Actions do not count towards the 40 hours.
• (95% of incidents are handled by automated response with Analyst oversight.)
• Incident Response Hours Usage Includes:
• Investigation of Potentially Malicious files or executables to determine Indicators of Attack or Compromise
• Removal and Cleanup of Persistence mechanisms if necessary
• Custom Requests

All this for $3.50 per Windows/MacOS/Linux endpoint per month!

Contact me today to learn more.

Managed Security from ControlScan. The right choice.

At ControlScan, we believe that every business should have the means to protect itself and its

customers from being victimized by cybercriminals.  Therefore, our mission is to let nothing block our customers’ paths to a strong security posture – not budgetary restrictions, not lack of expertise, and not human resource constraints.

ControlScan performs managed detection and response (MDR) specifically for organizations that don’t have the internal expertise and/or bandwidth to keep vigilant watch over the IT security of their environment.  Our 24 x 7 x 365 U.S.-based security operations center (SOC) ingests over one terabyte of data daily from over 25,000 managed endpoints, keeping watchful eye for malicious activity.

We are focused on small and medium businesses (SMB).  As an SMB ourself, we understand our clients’ challenges. We have made it our mission to help the businesses that need it the most.  We take the time to understand each client’s business model and design a program that aligns with their unique goals and business needs.

Our SOC utilizes proprietary security information and event management (SIEM) technology and our self-service portals enable real-time data sharing. This means that our clients see exactly what our analysts in the SOC are seeing – unlike other providers to whom you pay money yet do not know if they are even keeping watch.  Our clients know their ControlScan analysts by name.  Our clients don’t just have to call us with an issue; they can call us with any question about their environment.  Furthermore, ControlScan can generate reports for company stakeholders and compliance.

Beyond MDR, ControlScan encourages a “layered strategy” to cybersecurity. One might call it an "evolutionary" approach.

Crawl – with Next Generation Advanced Endpoint Protection.

• Protect critical network asses against advanced threats and malware (e.g., ransomware) with our best-of-breed endpoint agents.

Walk – with MDR and Managed Firewall.

• Incorporate threat intelligence from our SOC analysts for behavioral analytics of advanced threat actors and malware variants on endpoints and critical assets.  Protect the perimeter network by deploying our fully managed firewalls which are monitored 24x7x365.

Run – with Managed SIEM.

• Store all logs from assets in cases of a breach for critical evidence.  File integrity monitoring (FIM) is included and our Managed SIEM meets compliance regulations.

Fly – with a Fully Managed Security Package from ControlScan.

• By partnering with ControlScan, your organization is able continually strengthen its security and risk posture by having a holistic security package deployed.

Contact me today to learn more.

Affordable Data Security? Yes, it’s true.

Does cybersecurity protection make it to the top 10 on your priority list? If you’re like most businesses, you recognize that data security is important, but you don’t know where to start. And besides, if you found a solution, how would you even implement it, and what would you do if you were alerted of a threat?

We work with thousands of small and mid-sized businesses just like yours, and we’re here to tell you that smart, affordable security is possible.

Introducing MDR Essential from ControlScan

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Essential was designed for the SMB. It provides managed endpoint security to prevent, detect and respond to advanced threats—including ransomware. (Don’t know what an endpoint is? No problem. Examples of endpoints include laptops, desktops and servers.)

Think of MDR Essential as antivirus on steroids. It’s smart, and it blocks threats that traditional antivirus is unable to recognize. Even better, our team of security experts manages the solution for you, so you don’t lose sleep at night.

If you’d like to learn more, check out our website or give me a call at (404) 435-7376. I’m available to help answer any questions and walk you through best practices for securing your business.

Cybercrime isn’t going away. Let’s make sure you’re protected.

Is your cybersecurity on autopilot?

Cybersecurity tools like firewalls, SIEM systems and endpoint security technologies are designed to help protect your IT network. But without an actual human to actively utilize the data coming from these tools, your security defenses are essentially on autopilot.

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ControlScan Extends Managed Security Services Capabilities With Dunbar Cybersecurity Acquisition (Press Release)

MSSP cites growing need to proactively address cyber threats.

ATLANTA, Oct. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ControlScan, a leader in managed security and compliance solutions that help secure networks and protect payment card data, announces it has acquired Hunt Valley, Md.-based Dunbar Cybersecurity, including its well-established Security Operations Center (SOC) and powerful SIEM platform, Cyphon. The move brings additional advanced capabilities to the best-in-class managed security services ControlScan delivers to the mid-level enterprise.

With this strategic acquisition, ControlScan will strengthen the threat detection and response capabilities of its established solution set, helping the businesses it serves better manage an unprecedented number of incoming cyber threats. The company’s decision to expand its capabilities comes from recent research, including the 2017 Threat Monitoring, Detection andResponse Report, which found that a majority of organizations do not have the internal manpower and/or expertise to effectively detect and respond to cybersecurity threats.

ControlScan CEO Mark Carl

“Having a strong cybersecurity defense is business critical, but as attackers become increasingly advanced, it’s no longer realistic to assume that defense is 100 percent impenetrable,” Mark Carl, CEO, ControlScan said. “ControlScan has a solid track record of helping businesses defend, and we are now enhancing our means to actively detect and quickly respond to intrusions in real time, as they are happening.”

“Our goal is to provide an effective, mature cybersecurity and threat detection program for the businesses we serve,” said ControlScan COO Schane Simpson, who oversees operations of the company’s Managed Security Services division. “The Dunbar Cybersecurity acquisition bolsters our team of expert security analysts and allows us to leverage the Cyphon platform to proactively identify and mitigate suspicious network activity on our customers’ behalf.”

Tom Callahan, Director of Operations for Dunbar Cybersecurity, will continue with ControlScan as Director of MDR Services. “Dunbar Cybersecurity’s growth has supported ongoing innovation in the way we monitor, detect and respond to our customers’ cybersecurity threats,” Callahan said. “Becoming a primary component of the ControlScan Managed Security Services solution further advances the strong ROI we provide.”

The bulk of Dunbar Cybersecurity’s security analysts will be retained by ControlScan post acquisition. Dunbar Cybersecurity customers can expect a seamless transition to ControlScan Managed Security Services where they, along with current ControlScan customers, will be presented with additional managed security and compliance-related services.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. For more information on ControlScan Managed Security Services, including its new MDR capabilities, please visit ControlScan.com/MSS.

About ControlScan                                                 

ControlScan managed security and compliance solutions help secure networks and protect payment card data. Our elite cybersecurity professionals leverage best-in-class security technologies to support thousands of businesses with a single goal: To stop cyber criminals in their tracks. As both a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV), we also deliver a full suite of Payment Card Industry (PCI) services, including strategic PCI compliance programs that help processors, acquirers, ISOs and payment facilitators manage cyber risk and strengthen merchant relationships. For more information about our company and its solutions, please visit ControlScan.com.

About Dunbar Cybersecurity                                 

Dunbar Cybersecurity delivers solutions that allow our customers to maintain their business operations while protecting sensitive information and achieving compliance. We assess and monitor all things digital about your business, so your team can work without the worry of cyber threats. Learn more at https://www.dunbarsecuritysolutions.com/cybersecurity/.

Contact:

Stacey Holleran                                                                                 

Director, Corporate Communications                                                                                      

678-279-2645                                                                                     

sholleran@controlscan.com

                                                                                        

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