The Challenge: Gaining visibility and context to pre-empt attackers
Telit Cinterion is a global end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) solutions enabler, providing complete solutions that reduce time to market and costs through custom-designed devices, enterprise-grade wireless communication modules, MVNO services and industrial IoT platforms. Founded in 1986, Telit Cinterion operates globally with key locations in the US, Brazil, Italy, Israel, and Korea, and additional offices in the UK, South Korea, Germany, Japan, China, and Australia.
Itzik Menashe, Telit Cinterion’s CISO & Global VP IT, was looking for a way to get rid of the endless manual effort that he and his team exert in trying to understand the exposure of the digital assets they’re responsible to protect. Not only do they waste precious time, but often they don’t attain the visibility and context they need to smoothly run security operations. This is even more challenging due to the company’s large global footprint, and its growth through multiple M&As, making for a very heterogenous digital environment. The security team was bombarded with numerous scanners emitting countless siloed findings.
Tonic provided the situational awareness needed to quickly and confidently take decisions on security operations. Tonic’s automated context extraction delivered unprecedented context into every digital asset, including asset function and criticality, ownership, exploitability, and business impact.
“Tonic put my entire software stack and team in ‘beast mode’: I can enrich any alert from any tool and instantly understand the situation.”
Itzik Menashe, CISO, Telit Cinterion
Context Telit Cinterion can trust
The team uses Tonic’s proprietary security knowledge graph to see the big picture, as well as to drill down into the context of any asset. “The knowledge graph allows my team to better understand the business context in the enterprise ontology,” says Itzik. “This makes them more effective in reducing attack surface, improving triage accuracy, and expediting remediation. Tonic’s reasoning is transparent and explainable, providing context that I can trust.”
Elevating their security posture
Leveraging Tonic’s AI data fabric, Telit Cinterion ramped up its cybersecurity defenses as well as its operational efficiency.
“As a CISO, I’ve seen countless tools that promised business context, none of them delivered on the level that Tonic reached,” said Itzik. “It allowed us to take efficiency to a whole new level. My team achieves more, makes the most of our existing tools, and has greater visibility and control of information within the departments. For me, Tonic is a platform that delivers efficiency, focus, and confidence.”
Itzik Menashe, CISO, Telit Cinterion
Summary
Faced with thousands of disconnected security findings across a complex global environment, Telit Cinterion used Tonic to automatically enrich assets with business and ownership context. The result: faster prioritization, a 50% reduction in remediation time, and dramatically fewer exposures requiring action.
About Tonic Security
Tonic is reshaping Exposure and Vulnerability Management by providing the context security teams need to accelerate prioritization and remediation of vulnerabilities and threats. Powered by Agentic AI and a security Data Fabric, the Tonic platform extracts meaningful and actionable context about any type of entity in the organization that affects its security posture. The more complex the environment, the more Tonic can help make sense of enterprise data – breaking silos, establishing coherence, and leveraging unstructured data and organizational knowledge to deliver rich context. Leading organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, rely on Tonic to slash remediation time and reduce risk to key business processes.
