Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, NCR Atleos operates the world’s largest independently owned ATM network. A leader in self-service financial access solutions, the company offers clients expertise, operational scale, and always-on services to deliver comprehensive self-service channels.
When it became an independent company, NCR Atleos faced the challenge of protecting a 10-fold increase in business users and IT endpoints—all while meeting stringent banking industry security standards. With Qualys, the organization has boosted the visibility of threats across its environment by almost 50%, as well as streamlining and accelerating vital remediation activities.
28,000 endpoint devices across more than 60 countries
Hybrid environment comprising on-premises servers and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform & Microsoft Azure environments
PCI DSS compliant web applications
NCR Atleos was established when its parent company NCR divested its ATM business. As a newly independent enterprise, NCR Atleos aims to unlock growth opportunities in its self-service banking, payments and network, and telecommunications and technology businesses. However, becoming a separate entity also presented challenges. Almost overnight, the company’s information security team faced the challenge of managing a 10-fold increase in business users and IT endpoints. In addition, the security organization needed to discover assets across a far more complex, segregated environment and effectively detect, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities.
Discover all assets across the new business, including cloud and on-premises attack surfaces
Continuously scan for and effectively prioritize the remediation of vulnerabilities
Detect vulnerabilities embedded in open-source software libraries
Act fast to mitigate the risk of zero-days, critical vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
Comply with stringent regulatory requirements, including the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Secure an enlarged enterprise while keeping operational costs and headcount lean
With so many new assets coming over following the split from NCR, it was extremely difficult to discover what we had and identify our third-party risks. By ramping up our use of Qualys, we were able to increase our visibility of threats very quickly.
By working with Qualys, NCR Atleos streamlined and enhanced its approach to vulnerability management on its journey to becoming an independent company.
With Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management, the organization can discover unmanaged, internet-facing assets—building up a complete picture of its environment. And using Qualys VMDR with Qualys Security Configuration Assessment (SCA) and Software Composition Analysis (SwCA), NCR Atleos can leverage its Qualys Cloud Agents to check for PCI DSS compliance and gain real-time insight into zero-days in open-source software.
Increased visibility of assets and vulnerabilities, elevating leadership confidence in vulnerability management reporting
Discovered and remediated significant zero-day vulnerabilities within a key business application
Enabled accurate, risk-based prioritization of vulnerabilities using the Qualys Detection Score (QDS)
Delivered vulnerability detection and security configuration assessment in a single solution
Boosted asset coverage across a hybrid multicloud environment with Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management
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Benefits
Increases visibility of vulnerabilities by almost 50% with Qualys SwCA
Detects zero-day vulnerabilities with zero false positives to date
Accelerates remediation for the most serious cyber threats
Automates key vulnerability management processes, improving operational efficiency
Facilitates compliance with banking industry requirements such as PCI DSS
Lays the foundation for even more effective prioritization in the future with Qualys TruRisk scores
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