The Channel Company Modernizes Cybersecurity, Begins Zero Trust Journey Amidst Global Expansion

First, TCC completed a NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) assessment to evaluate its existing security posture, identify the most critical cybersecurity gaps and assess new regional regulatory requirements facing the business.

Then TCC enlisted Blue Mantis to develop a Zero Trust Architecture based on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) 2.0 model. This critical step included a thorough examination using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF), which revealed cybersecurity gaps and priorities and provided a strong foundation for TCC’s Zero Trust Architecture. CISA describes Zero Trust as a security framework that assumes that all network traffic is untrusted until proven otherwise.  TCC’s objective was to holistically address identified gaps in its cybersecurity strategy and this exercise with Blue Mantis helped accomplish this mission.

• Dramatically improved cyber hygiene across a growing base of end users globally. 
• Greater productivity, flexibility, mobility and cost savings delivered through a newly implemented BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy. 
• Increased level of trust and communication between TCC’s executive team and IT especially as it applies to organizational risk management and the effort required to further TCC’s information security modernization initiative.