Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Donnelley Financial Solutions
Real User
Jun 14, 2020
If I was to rate empow on a scale of one to 10, I would give them a nine and a half, probably. Why it's so high is that there's no competitors on the market in my mind that has transformed the SIEM industry as much as empow. The speed is impressive in which they continue to innovate. Every couple of months, we're excited to learn about the latest and greatest capabilities of the platform. Most of the latest innovations have been centered around their automation capabilities. It's had such a tremendous impact on my organization. They tend to focus on what matters. It has given us high confidence that where we are spending our time is worth doing so. The alert fatigue and false positive rates have just plummeted, which is really exciting. They have transformed the industry, which no one would have expected not that long ago. I'd like to give them a bit of a shout out for when they have given me commitments around enhancements, such as enhancing their reporting capabilities, some minor adjustments to the dashboard, and those types of feature requests, they've met those commitments as it relates to quality and timeline. empow, without a doubt, is the most important monitoring tool that we have at our disposal. From a monitoring and incident response perspective, empow is the most valuable asset we have in our toolkit. The biggest lesson I've learned from using empow would be just how far technology has come. It surprised me relative to the orchestration of the automation of our mitigations. That one was quite surprising. The accuracy and the level of confidence I have in the playbooks surprises me at how high it is, because it's quite high. Another area that surprised me would be the level of confidence that we have now in our ability to scale up and down, as scaling down sometimes can be equally as tricky. The advice that I would give to anyone looking at empow would be primarily ensure that your planning is sound. When I think about our experiences with empow, it's refreshing to think back about how easy that journey was with such a difficult technology stack. Not only was it surprisingly simple, it should not have been since not long ago we were not standing up a deployment of a net new sandbox environment where we were needing to build and deploy, then migrate, a very sizeable deployment to this new ecosystem. Inevitably, we expected there to be some bumps along the road, but there were very few. I attribute this back to the quality of planning and reliability of the technology that empow brings to the table. Therefore, my advice would be ensure that your planning is sound. While it's exciting to know that the technology is very stable and the integrations are very straightforward with API driven integrations, they never can really take into full account the uniqueness of your business. Thus, planning is absolutely paramount.
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If I was to rate empow on a scale of one to 10, I would give them a nine and a half, probably. Why it's so high is that there's no competitors on the market in my mind that has transformed the SIEM industry as much as empow. The speed is impressive in which they continue to innovate. Every couple of months, we're excited to learn about the latest and greatest capabilities of the platform. Most of the latest innovations have been centered around their automation capabilities. It's had such a tremendous impact on my organization. They tend to focus on what matters. It has given us high confidence that where we are spending our time is worth doing so. The alert fatigue and false positive rates have just plummeted, which is really exciting. They have transformed the industry, which no one would have expected not that long ago. I'd like to give them a bit of a shout out for when they have given me commitments around enhancements, such as enhancing their reporting capabilities, some minor adjustments to the dashboard, and those types of feature requests, they've met those commitments as it relates to quality and timeline. empow, without a doubt, is the most important monitoring tool that we have at our disposal. From a monitoring and incident response perspective, empow is the most valuable asset we have in our toolkit. The biggest lesson I've learned from using empow would be just how far technology has come. It surprised me relative to the orchestration of the automation of our mitigations. That one was quite surprising. The accuracy and the level of confidence I have in the playbooks surprises me at how high it is, because it's quite high. Another area that surprised me would be the level of confidence that we have now in our ability to scale up and down, as scaling down sometimes can be equally as tricky. The advice that I would give to anyone looking at empow would be primarily ensure that your planning is sound. When I think about our experiences with empow, it's refreshing to think back about how easy that journey was with such a difficult technology stack. Not only was it surprisingly simple, it should not have been since not long ago we were not standing up a deployment of a net new sandbox environment where we were needing to build and deploy, then migrate, a very sizeable deployment to this new ecosystem. Inevitably, we expected there to be some bumps along the road, but there were very few. I attribute this back to the quality of planning and reliability of the technology that empow brings to the table. Therefore, my advice would be ensure that your planning is sound. While it's exciting to know that the technology is very stable and the integrations are very straightforward with API driven integrations, they never can really take into full account the uniqueness of your business. Thus, planning is absolutely paramount.