44 INTERVIEW Winning the cyber war BY LAURA HYDE Armor Defense‘s Chris Drake discusses the company‘s mission, founded upon his cyberattack encounter, and how its newly launched Nexus portal offers clients visibility into the preemptive defences that effectively mitigate ongoing cyberattacks According to Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2024, its customers are confronted with over 600 million cyberattacks each day. This alarming statistic underscores the critical need for organisations to take decisive action against these attacks. They need the right expertise, tools, policies, processes and robust user training to effectively and efficiently combat these threats. Cybersecurity experts like Chris Drake, founder and CEO of Armor Defense, are essential allies in this fight. “Armor was founded in 2009 after a hard lesson: a customer at my previous company was hacked; it wasn’t just business – it was personal,” says Drake. “That breach became the spark that created Armor, which has one mission: to ensure no company suffers like that again.” Drake and his team of experts now protect over 1,500 companies across 40 countries, outmanoeuvring threats in the cybersecurity battleground. “We are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, fast-growing startups, and everything in between,” says Drake. “‘Between you and the threat is our promise to shield our customers from cyberthreat actors looking to cause them harm.” Armor works continuously to adapt its services to stay ahead of sophisticated actors. “We gather intelligence from a wide array of sources and follow up with enrichment, research, investigation and correlation to ensure accuracy and relevance,” says Drake. “Upon synthesising the data, we tune controls and rules to enhance detections without increasing the number of false positives. This tuning is an essential part of our promise to our customers. We show them meaningful and actionable alerts without creating alert fatigue.” Armor customers get peace of mind with this comprehensive approach. “Our goal was to find a managed detection and response partner we could trust to safeguard our organisation and show us the actions taken to protect our unique environment,” says Keith Buck, chief innovation officer at ViTel Net, a telehealth provider. “Armor provides this security intelligence and optimises “ ‘Between you and the threat is our promise to shield our customers from cyberthreat actors”
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