Globe Telecom Reduces Risk and Gains Immediate Visibility with New Threatbased Operational Security Approach

As the leading telecommunications provider in the Philippines, Globe Telecom serves about over 80 million customers — roughly three-quarters of the country’s population. The company’s leadership sought to transform its cybersecurity approach from a risk-, compliance- and auditbased model — the typical, if conservative, approach of companies in the Asia-Pacific region — to a threat-based model more attuned to where adversaries are headed with their attacks. In the process, it established a security operations center (SOC), consolidated departments, and grew its IT team by over 300% plus increased spend on CAPEX for a strong IT/security foundation.

Globe Telecom chose CrowdStrike as its security partner in 2016, quickly deploying the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform with phase one initially within a day — total deployment time was 90% less than that of their previous solution — and engaging with the CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch™ team of threathunting experts. They were able to gain immediate visibility into its 17,400 endpoints and into threats they previously were unaware of, and, with help from the CrowdStrike CrowdScore™ capability, prioritize incident response.