A Manufacturer's Path to Secure Cybersecurity

SMC Corporation, the world’s largest manufacturer of pneumatic components and a global leader in automation, faced the ongoing challenge of keeping its data and IP safe. Threats proliferate at an alarming speed with ever-increasing sophistication, and SMC lacked a systematic cybersecurity approach across their multiple, global locations. 

SMC turned to Critical Start to implement a single, centralized security solution for 24x7x365 coverage and accelerated incident response. 

Through Critical Start’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services, SMC security teams have saved over 22,000 hours annually investigating false positives, with less than 5% of alerts ever escalated to SMC from Critical Start’s SOC. Read more about their story, and how they continue to see a 3.5X return on investment, below.