COUNTRY FOCUS: MALAYSIA
Malaysian property developer, the
Urban Development Authority, chose
the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform
to improve its overall security posture
and gain visibility into its extended
IT landscape.
Leading Malaysian developer
UDA Holdings zeroes in on
threats with LogRhythm
Overseen by the Ministry of
Entrepreneur Development and
Co-operatives (MEDAC) of Malaysia,
the Urban Development Authority (UDA),
is a property developer that manages and
operates real estate as well as provides
services for housing, lifestyle, retail and
hospitality sectors.
Renowned as one of the top 10 property
developers in the market, UDA has played
an instrumental role in the development of
Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor and
more. To improve the developer’s overall
security posture and gain visibility into its
extended IT landscape, UDA has chosen
LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform.
The business challenge:
Blind spots in cybersecurity
As a company that is responsible for many
governmental, commercial and residential
property development projects throughout
Malaysia, it is imperative for UDA to ensure
that their data, clients’ information and
assets are well protected. However, not
only did the cybersecurity team lack the
resources, they also lacked the experience
and expertise to adequately handle the
volume and complexity of both external and
internal threats to UDA.
In other words, the team had been
unnecessarily spending a substantial amount
of time and resources manually detecting
threats, which include DDoS, ransomware,
brute force and phishing attacks.
Additionally, this manual ‘blind’
detection also meant that it was harder to
differentiate between real threats and false
positives, resulting in a huge impediment
to their ability to respond and remediate
cyberthreats in the shortest possible time.
Eventually, their ability to satisfy compliance
regulations was also impacted.
Consequently, the team realized that
they needed a security information event
management (SIEM) solution that could
enhance and centralize visibility, detect
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