Simplified Cybersecurity Platform

ShadowSpear supplied us with a complete security package for our cloud. I call it SOC-in-a-box. They came as a complete package to monitor threats and vulnerabilities. So, it replaced any tool we would’ve used. We did not purchase a SIEM; we’re using ShadowSpear. We did not purchase network monitoring software; we’re using ShadowSpear. We did not purchase additional scanners; we’re using ShadowSpear. All of those things that make up an incident response and threat and vulnerability management team in the cloud is for us, ShadowSpear.

We reached a point where we realized that building our own SOC team wasn’t the best choice for us. Part of it was that we realized that it would take a long time to build out a true SOC team and we wouldn’t be able to effectively support our clients at a reasonable cost.

We had all the things in place to catch 99.9% of anything that might come in. We had everything in place to catch everything except what ultimately led me to SpearTip. We had an attack from the inside – I had never contemplated it.

The frequency of events was rising, and the attacks were becoming more sophisticated, going from recovering from backups to business crippling attacks.

Within an hour of me calling them, they were in my network and doing their thing.

We needed to establish a SOC for the cloud. That means hiring a leader and multiple associates with appropriate skills and implementing multiple tools as we shifted from on-prem to what would be best for our cloud environment. It probably would have taken a year to bring in the talent and new cloud-focused tools, and to develop the necessary APIs, all while keeping up with the implementation we had already begun.

If I had to hire staff to do these same types of security initiatives, it would cost me two, three times as much as what I’m paying SpearTip to do that. So, it gives me a little more freedom to use those dollars to repurpose and bring in other talents to do things that are going to help move the business forward, financially.

We didn’t have a dedicated group focused on security, we just had people doing that. And now we just don’t need to do that because SpearTip is such a good partner.

SpearTip completely saved that investment for me and my partners. I’m going the distance with ShadowSpear.

SpearTip can keep up better than some larger organizations. They’re more like a sports car than a tank – a little bit more nimble, a little bit more agile at this point which is what you need to keep up with cybersecurity right now.

I was impressed with how [SpearTip] handled things and communicated while they were doing a client’s attack recovery. They were very, very cooperative, and very willing to explain what their software was, what it did, how to work through the incident response plan, what forensic data they actually needed. It was a very different experience than some encounters I had with potential partners.

A service like what SpearTip offers is going to become as normal as the light bill over the next few years. There is no other way.

I like the simplicity of their pricing, an all-in-one monthly per workstation cost. Instead of you worry about how much data was being ingested and net pay for certain levels of service, it is great having an all-encompassing price.