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The Third-Party
Security Challenge

Organizations need third-party support for many areas of their infrastructure, however, the risk these third-parties pose is an area of ongoing concern. These risks include;

Traditional Security Inadequate

Traditional security tools are not well suited to protect customers from security issues that arise from third-party Access.

Traditional tools are enterprise focused and don't support Operationalized Technologies (OT) and Industrial Control System (ICS) Communications.

Moreover, these tools tend are privacy focused conflating encrypted communications as security. Privacy-centric tools don’t have the means to identify and stop malicious and exploitative communications.

Secure Your Operations Today

Mini Case-Study

mini case-study

A property owner thought that their device installed by their LMS provided security. They were caught off-guard when the device did not catch the malware that infected their computers when their vendor logged in to perform updates. The device was configured for encrypted access and did not perform any security function.

Third Party Security
Control

Customers depend on the services of Third-parties who need privileged access into customer environments. Yet customers have little say and no control over the security of the third-party.

Control Your Third-Party Access

Mini Case-Study

mini case-study

A fortune 500 organizations required emergency services on their HVAC system. The responding third-party employee had issues with his laptop so he switch to his son’s gaming PC to perform the task. The gaming PC was rife with ransomware that spread throughout a substantial portion of the customer environment causing them to declare an incident.

Third-party Turnover Concerns

Managing third-party employee turnover require significant administrative burden. This is a manual process that some organization don’t have, while other contend with it at great cost and burden.

Manage Administrative Turnovers

Mini Case-Study

mini case-study

After implementation of the Acreto platform, a fortune 100 organization discovered a device installed by their BMS vendor unbeknownst to them. This device had remote access configured for 82 users from multiple third-party organizations. The vast majority of whom could not be identified or no longer worked for the company that needed access.

Securing Third-Party
OT / ICS Access

Securing Operationalized and Industrial Control technologies requires unique and robust capabilities not offered by enterprise security tools. All-the-while securing third-parties requires its own set of specialized technology capabilities, processes and methodologies.

Acreto addresses the key challenges of third-party access to OT and ICS technologies.

Acreto third-party risk mitigation services provides the tools, capabilities, process and oversight to ensure clean and reliable access for third-parties whose security you do not control.

background checks for third-party

Background checks for third-party organizations and employees.

End to end control limits

End-to-end control limits access to specific technologies

Real-time scanning

Real-time scanning for and mitigation of malicious content

Scheduled access activation

Scheduled access activation

User and acess logs

User and access logs for all communications

Limit access to ot and ics protocols

Limit access to OT and ICS protocols such as BacNET, Modbus and SCADA.

ongoing validation of employement

Ongoing validation of employment status and active elimination of dormant accounts

Why Industry Experts, Insurance Carriers and Customers Trust Acreto

Robert Flores
Former CTO, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Robert Flores

Cost, complexity and access to talent have put effective cyber-security beyond the reach of many organizations. Acreto has developed a technology that delivers isolation, controls and threat prevention for the entire infrastructure in a single platform.
This combination makes Acreto powerfully effective. Just as importantly though, they address the lack of resources and complexity challenges that have marred attempts at security.

Bob Gourley
Former CTO, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Bob Gourley

In my decades of security work for commercial and government organizations, there was a very real understanding that security was not just a bunch of products. It needs to be functionally and operationally cohesive. The industry today, with its piecemeal product approach has just not gotten this right.
Acreto addresses this problem with truly innovative technology that is complete, consolidated as well as both functionally and operationally cohesive. Acreto is the future of cyber security.

Jean-Francois Gueguen
CEO, The French American Academy

Jean-Francois Gueguen

Our consortium of French schools is distributed throughout the US and doesn’t have the expertise or budgets for a complex security infrastructure. All-the-while protecting students is our number one priority.

Acreto replaced all existing products and gave us new capabilities we didn’t have, but needed. It was easy to get up and running and after two years of using Acreto, we know it just plain works.

Kelly Robertson
Virtual CISO, M-Theory Group

Kelly

I first came across Acreto in my role as a vCISO. One of our customers was rejected Cyber Insurance and the carrier recommended Acreto to mitigate the identified risks. The sales and deployment process was easy and non-disruptive, taking only a few hours in a span of two days. The customer got insured with the coverage they needed at a significantly reduced rate. Acreto is truly an efficient and innovative security technology that I am now recommending to my other customers.

Robert Thomas
Former CEO, Netscreen & Infoblox

Robert Thomas

Security today is out of sync with how organizations use technology. There are too many one-off security products that are expensive and need hard to find experts. Ultimately this approach creates a complex mess. Acreto takes a fundamentally new approach to security that's inline with technology today. It is mindful that organizations are distributed, use diverse and non-standard technologies, and need to interoperate with third-parties. What truly sets Acreto apart is that it's effective yet simple at a level never seen before. I believe what Acreto has built is how all security will be delivered in the near future.

Eric Ashdown
Cyber Security Expert and Former CISO, Microsoft

Eric Ashdown

I love what Acreto is doing. It is an innovative and smarter way to do cyber security. As a former CISO for Microsoft, I could have used Acreto to solve so many problems, much faster and in more meaningful ways, at a fraction of the cost.

Paul Blackstone
COO, 121 Financial

paul-blackstone

Securing our offices, branches, clouds and vendors was overwhelming. Especially for our operationalized technologies, like ATMs and HVAC units. They needed individual, special consideration.
Acreto completely consolidated security into a single platform for us. When COVID hit, we were able to immediately scale to support all our work from home users. Acreto just works.

Joe Silva
CISO, JLL

A profile photo of Joe Silva, a customer of Acreto's virtual security platform.

Securing today’s hybrid infrastructure requires the ability to identify, connect, isolate, and protect an incredibly wide array of technologies.
Acreto isolates and secures all technologies, including purpose-built technologies like HVAC and elevator control systems, simply, without products or re-architecture.

Paul Blackstone
COO, 121 Financial

paul-blackstone

Securing our offices, branches, clouds and vendors was overwhelming. Especially for our operationalized technologies, like ATMs and HVAC units. They needed individual, special consideration.
Acreto completely consolidated security into a single platform for us. When COVID hit, we were able to immediately scale to support all our work from home users. Acreto just works.

Joe Silva
CISO, JLL

A profile photo of Joe Silva, a customer of Acreto's virtual security platform.

Securing today’s hybrid infrastructure requires the ability to identify, connect, isolate, and protect an incredibly wide array of technologies.
Acreto isolates and secures all technologies, including purpose-built technologies like HVAC and elevator control systems, simply, without products or re-architecture.

Robert Flores
Former CTO, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Robert Flores

Cost, complexity and access to talent have put effective cyber-security beyond the reach of many organizations. Acreto has developed a technology that delivers isolation, controls and threat prevention for the entire infrastructure in a single platform.
This combination makes Acreto powerfully effective. Just as importantly though, they address the lack of resources and complexity challenges that have marred attempts at security.

Jean-Francois Gueguen
CEO, The French American Academy

Jean-Francois Gueguen

Our consortium of French schools is distributed throughout the US and doesn’t have the expertise or budgets for a complex security infrastructure. All-the-while protecting students is our number one priority.

Acreto replaced all existing products and gave us new capabilities we didn’t have, but needed. It was easy to get up and running and after two years of using Acreto, we know it just plain works.

Bob Gourley
Former CTO, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Bob Gourley

In my decades of security work for commercial and government organizations, there was a very real understanding that security was not just a bunch of products. It needs to be functionally and operationally cohesive. The industry today, with its piecemeal product approach has just not gotten this right.
Acreto addresses this problem with truly innovative technology that is complete, consolidated as well as both functionally and operationally cohesive. Acreto is the future of cyber security.

Robert Thomas
Former CEO, Netscreen & Infoblox

Robert Thomas

Security today is out of sync with how organizations use technology. There are too many one-off security products that are expensive and need hard to find experts. Ultimately this approach creates a complex mess. Acreto takes a fundamentally new approach to security that's inline with technology today. It is mindful that organizations are distributed, use diverse and non-standard technologies, and need to interoperate with third-parties. What truly sets Acreto apart is that it's effective yet simple at a level never seen before. I believe what Acreto has built is how all security will be delivered in the near future.

Kelly Robertson
Virtual CISO, M-Theory Group

Kelly

I first came across Acreto in my role as a vCISO. One of our customers was rejected Cyber Insurance and the carrier recommended Acreto to mitigate the identified risks. The sales and deployment process was easy and non-disruptive, taking only a few hours in a span of two days. The customer got insured with the coverage they needed at a significantly reduced rate. Acreto is truly an efficient and innovative security technology that I am now recommending to my other customers.

Eric Ashdown
Cyber Security Expert and Former CISO, Microsoft

Eric Ashdown

I love what Acreto is doing. It is an innovative and smarter way to do cyber security. As a former CISO for Microsoft, I could have used Acreto to solve so many problems, much faster and in more meaningful ways, at a fraction of the cost.

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