A Thriving Media Company Needs to Reinforce Customer Data Protection
Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Stingray is a leading provider of select direct-to-consumer and B2B services, including audio television channels, more than one hundred radio stations, SVOD content, and more. To ensure the integrity and availability of its services and provide the highest caliber of data protection for the businesses and consumers in its extensive customer base, Stingray onboarded AWS partner SentinelOne for its fully integrated cybersecurity solutions.
Expanding Customer Base Requires Accelerated Anomaly Detection and Compliance Support
For its cost efficiency, flexibility, and compute capabilities, Stingray selected AWS early on in its development. As its customer base expanded, Stingray sought additional ways to streamline its compliance efforts, reinforce its protection of customer data, and support the optimal performance of its services. To access new tools that could accelerate the prevention, detection, and eradication of runtime threats, Stingray selected AWS Partner SentinelOne to secure its workloads in AWS.
SentinelOne: Machine-Speed Protection and EDR for a Multitude of Attack Surfaces
Built and hosted on AWS, SentinelOne Singularity XDR Platform™ protects user endpoints, cloud workloads, mobile devices and identities. Its proven AI provides cutting-edge runtime protection, detection, and automated response capabilities across Stingray’s entire IT footprint. With support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), and 12 major Linux distributions, SentinelOne provides the breadth and depth of expertise for Stingray to seamlessly operate its AWS workloads at scale. Persistent, correlated EDR telemetry with cloud metadata provides Stingray with heightened visibility into containerized workloads to power deeper analytics, and faster responses to anomalies.
Identifying and Mitigating Incidents in a Fraction of the Time
With enhanced visibility, these cybersecurity solutions from SentinelOne helped Stingray identify and mitigate any anomalies and support compliance in a fraction of the time it took before. Bruno Cunha, Cybersecurity lead at Stingray elaborates, “These incidents might be happening at any time of day or night, but SentinelOne guarantees that an incident or a suspicious behavior is reviewed and responded within the least possible amount of time. Everything works perfectly whenever we need to perform any investigation, or whenever we need to respond to any event.”
SentinelOne AI-Driven Solutions Enhance Security Operations at Stingray
SentinelOne secures Stingray infrastructure across its backend in both production systems and workstations. SentinelOne has powered new capabilities for the Stingray security team including a real-time device inventory and heightened visibility into endpoint and cloud workload behavior.
With SentinelOne, the security team at Stingray can easily discover unmanaged, unsecured, and anomalous devices including IoT devices, servers, and user endpoints in their environment. Additionally, SentinelOne helps Stingray understand and prioritize outdated and potentially vulnerable software on managed devices.
Several SentinelOne services have become essential to execute these new capabilities at Stingray including Storyline Active Response rules which provide custom detection and response logic.
Detection and Response Support 24 x 7
To augment security staff, Stingray uses SentinelOne Vigilance Respond which provides around-the-clock detection and response support for SentinelOne Singularity. Stingray also subscribes to SentinelOne WatchTower™, which provides active threat hunting services for emerging threats throughout Stingray’s environment. With both services, Stingray can reduce the amount of manual effort required to protect critical customer data and information.
Cunha explains, “For us at the security team, SentinelOne makes our job much easier. The SentinelOne AI engine will do a lot of this review investigative work on its own. Also, the Vigilance team at SentinelOne helps us respond to any alerts being false positives or being true positive incidents.”
SentinelOne Solutions Optimize Security for Containerized Workloads
Beyond enhanced visibility and anomaly detection across its infrastructure, the SentinelOne Kubernetes Workload Detection & Response solution specializes in the protection of containerized workloads running in Kubernetes clusters at Stingray. The solution mitigates runtime challenges such as zero-day attacks and fileless malware. A single, no-sidecar agent optimizes resource efficiency at Stingray by protecting the Kubernetes worker, its pods, and their containers.
Continuing a Partnership for Powerful Security
Several AWS services power Stingray infrastructure including Amazon Virtual Image (AMI). AWS Security services like AWS Security Hub integrate with SentinelOne for full protection across the Stingray environment. In identifying a favorite feature from SentinelOne, Cunha, speaks to the flexibility and nuance SentinelOne offers in terms of security event categorization and processing.
A Transformative Partnership
As a multiplatform solution, SentinelOne services have proven agnostic and easily adaptable for every facet of Stingray’s operations. With a highly responsive, reliable, and educated customer service team, SentinelOne has proven itself as an essential security partner for Stingray. Cunha speaks further on the value of SentinelOne customer support.
“The folks at SentinelOne are always available to jump on a call and help us fix our issues. I’m extremely happy with their customer support. This reduces the workload from our analysts when it comes to triaging and investigating events. Accelerating the response to these events is a tremendous support.”
“For sensitive production systems, we want to be informed, but review ourselves before triggering any action. So the flexibility that SentinelOne offers in terms of response, is something unique that truly impresses me. It really makes a difference.” Stingray plans to continue its partnership with SentinelOne and AWS.
