Risk Management
Translating cyber to business risk at Together Housing
Housing associations may not strike you as a typical target for cyber-criminals. But the wealth of personal and financial information they hold on tenants puts them firmly in the crosshairs of malicious actors.
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Housing associations may not strike you as a typical target for cyber-criminals. But the wealth of personal and financial information they hold on tenants puts them firmly in the crosshairs of malicious actors.
Earlier this month, it was great to hear from Together Housing Association at Infosecurity Europe about how the Trend Vision One platform is helping the non-profit organisation keep its tenants safe, and ensure cyber is kept high on the boardroom agenda.
How we work with Together Housing
Together Housing is one of the north of England’s largest organisations of its kind, managing over 37,000 homes across the region. Its small IT team has its work cut out managing 1,600 users across hybrid cloud server, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and network environments. Given its resource constraints, it’s vital that any security solution offers centralised visibility and control with minimal management overheads.
That’s exactly what Trend Vision One offers – enabling the IT team to manage and enforce policy across all of its virtual and on-premises endpoints from a single portal and utilise XDR for industry-leading threat detection and response. Together Housing has previously shared how impressed it is with the highly responsive technical support it gets from Trend.
When you become a Trend customer you get a true partnership that goes way beyond the usual transactional vendor-client relationship.
Managing business risk
It’s always nice to catch up with customers face to face, to hear first-hand about their current challenges and how we can help. At Infosecurity Europe recently, Together Housing Group Assistant Director for ICT, Stuart Curran, shared how Trend Vision One is helping him to communicate more effectively with the board.
“One of the biggest challenges I have is translating cybersecurity to a board level, to be able to show how important it is,” he told us. “One of the great things with Trend Vision One is because all of the different elements feed into a risk score, we can translate that, not just as a cybersecurity risk, but it can also be looked at on a risk register as a business risk.”
In this way, the platform is helping Stuart not only ensure cyber is always on the board’s mind, but also keep auditors happy that the organisation is doing all it can to continuously monitor and manage cyber risk.