Company
AMANA is the United Arab Emirate’s trusted design-build company, specializing in industrial construction for over three decades. The company has locations in over seven countries, over 130 repeat clients, and over 8,000 employees. Its reputation is built on the ability to repeatedly provide turn-key solutions for fast-track projects.
Challenge
The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector is a highly targeted industry for cybercriminals using email as the primary communication attack channel. As such, AMANA was experiencing a large amount of malicious emails within that attack surface. They needed protection against Business Email Compromise (BEC), vendor account takeovers, and other types of attacks. The existing approach and tooling created suboptimal results and a poor experience for the SOC team. The company investigated SlashNext, Abnormal Security, and Perception Point. AMANA chose SlashNext. AMANA Technology Manager Daniel Vargas said “SlashNext met our needs by having the highest level of efficacy when compared to the other two vendors.”
Solution – Generative AI Powered Email, Mobile, and Browser Protection
- Stops credential stealing, BEC, spear-phishing, legitimate link compromise, social engineering scams, ransomware and malware in real time with fast 99.99% detection rates and a one in 1 million false positive rate.
- Five-minute set-up and deployment immediately demonstrates ROI by revealing compromised devices in the organization.
- Prevents smishing and BTC with zero-hour protection against the broadest range of link based and natural language threats in any mobile application.
- Integrated browser extension stops zero-hour link and exploit threats in all web messaging apps including email, ads, social, search, and collaboration.
- Educates employees at the point of click to reinforce training programs.
Results
SlashNext Email+ Security immediately increased the security footprint with a more robust next-gen solution and detected more multi-stage BEC and natural language attacks. The types of attacks included malicious emails, QR Code attacks, and other known attack vectors. SlashNext met AMANA’s needs and required less hands-on effort than other vendors when the product was configured.
According to a recent FBI IC3 report, the average cost of each successful BEC attack is $124K per attack. At AMANA, the number of attacks caught by SlashNext saved over $2.2 million dollars in mitigation the first year. SlashNext’s intuitive and easy-to-use console not only thwarted zero-hour phishing attacks, it also saved security analysts over eight hours per week to perform other critical security job functions.
“SlashNext met our needs by having the highest level of efficacy when compared to the other two vendors.”
– Daniel Vargas, Technology Manager, AMANA
