Challenge:

• Summit Utilities needed a unified platform to support real-time control monitoring across a complex and growing tech infrastructure.
• Little did the team know that an encryption gap was created by a missed step in a new process.
• Existing security tools had failed to surface the issue, leaving the organization vulnerable despite having policies in place.

Solution: 

• Summit’s GRC Cybersecurity Analyst Jamie Brookes integrated Anecdotes across Summit’s tech stack with nine proprietary plug-ins.
• Using out-of-the-box and custom monitoring rules, Jamie quickly surfaced a security issue that none of the security tools had flagged.
• Anecdotes surfaced the issue immediately by consolidating GRC data to help trace the vulnerability to its root cause.
• Jamie now tracks compliance continuously and shares findings weekly. GRC data from Anecdotes informs remediation efforts and process updates. 

"We wouldn’t have caught this issue without Anecdotes. Now we know where the problem is and how to fix it." 

— Jamie Brookes, GRC Cybersecurity Analyst, Summit Utilities