Cymulate Provides Robust Proactive Defense, Saves Leroy Merlin Over $326K Per Year
01 May 2024 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Global Retailer Integrates Breach and Attack
Solution to Improve Cybersecurity Resiliency
Cymulate, the leader in exposure management and security
validation, today announced that Leroy Merlin, a global retail
brand in the home improvement and gardening industry, has
integrated Cymulate Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) to
proactively identify security vulnerabilities and protect against
cyberattacks. Since implementation, Leroy Merlin has seen a
significant reduction in digital security expenses, saving
approximately $326.4K in year-over-year expenditures.
As a premiere player in the home improvement and gardening
retail market, serving countries across Europe, Asia, South
America, and Africa, Leroy Merlin’s investment in cybersecurity is
crucial to ensuring business continuity and reliability amongst
customers. Cymulate was brought on to assess the efficacy of Leroy
Merlin’s internal cybersecurity strategies, processes, and
solutions alongside Service IT, another security vendor focusing on
IT consultancy, cybersecurity, and outsourcing.
Cymulate Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) for continuous
security validation enabled Leroy Merlin to establish cyber risk
dashboards for each business unit, including 12 major
administrative locations, 43 physical stores, two compact express
stores, a distribution center, and an E-commerce digital
distribution platform. Since integration, Cymulate has saved Leroy
Merlin over $183K from outsourced pen tests, $32.5K from phishing
campaigns, $29.4K from security posture tools, and an additional
$81.3K in savings originally budgeted for this project.
"Counting on expert partners in the market helped us use the
right tools, eliminate the complexity of the environment, and free
up the team for a broader view of the business,” said Erick Lucas
da Silva, Cybersecurity Operations Manager at Leroy Merlin.
“Moreover, the project provided our team with knowledge about
operational security and a strategic vision of the company's
environment."
Prior to implementing Cymulate Breach and Attack Simulation
(BAS), the retailer conducted only periodic in-house penetration
tests to assess its security posture. Leroy Melvin partnered with
Cymulate with the ultimate goal of developing an effective strategy
to both improve the retailer’s IT environment security and reduce
costs. Since adoption, Leroy Merlin has been able to test its
security controls on a continuous basis, identify gaps in its
posture, and take measurable, proactive steps to enhance its cyber
resilience and modernize its security tools and assets.
Cymulate Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) enables
organizations to safely conduct threat activities, tactics,
techniques, and procedures to validate security control postures,
as well as:
- Validate security resilience and reduce exposure risk
- Optimize speed and efficiency when responding to incidents
- Justify investments in cybersecurity by showing control
efficacy and coverage gaps
- Improve ability to measure, track, and report cybersecurity
KPIs and overall threat exposure
“We’re in the business of empowering customers to take action at
a time when evaluating exposure and identifying improvement areas
can mean the difference between catching an attack early or facing
detrimental consequences,” said Eyal Wachsman, CEO and Co-Founder
of Cymulate. “Leroy Merlin is the perfect example of how taking
proactive measures against potential threats—and adjusting cyber
strategies to meet current business needs—can lead to overall
savings in money, time, and exposure."
To learn more about Cymulate Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS),
click here.
About Cymulate
Cymulate, the leader in exposure management and security
validation, provides a modular platform for continuously assessing,
testing, and improving cybersecurity resilience — before an attack
occurs. More than 500 customers worldwide rely on the Cymulate
platform to drive their threat exposure management programs from
scoping through discovery, prioritization, validation, and
mobilization. The Cymulate platform automates the attacker’s
perspective to help organizations of all sizes understand threat
exposure, how controls and processes respond to threats, and the
improvements they can make to mitigate exposure risk. For more
information, visit www.cymulate.com.
About Leroy Merlin
Leroy Merlin, a pioneer company of the Adeo Group, is today the
leading brand in France in all distribution channels for home
improvement and the living environment. Specialized in the sale of
products, projects and services, Leroy Merlin France's ambition is
to build with everyone new ways of living for a better tomorrow and
puts customer satisfaction at the heart of its business. 28,000
employees in 143 stores in France are now committed to this
idea.
This mission is reflected on the www.leroymerlin.fr website,
which is now one of the Top 10 French e-commerce sites. Leroy
Merlin France was voted France's favorite retailer in 2021 and 2022
and has a turnover of more than €8.9 billion (including VAT in
2021).
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