Macnica to Provide Attack Surface Management Service to Alconix - Identifying and continuously monitoring IT assets will contribute to early prevention of global security incidents -

Macnica (headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture; Representative Director and President: Kazumasa Hara; hereinafter "Macnica) announced today that it has provided the Attack Surface Management service (hereinafter "ASM service") to ALCONIX Corporation (headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Board Director and CEO Member of the Board Teshirogi Hiroshi; hereinafter "ALCONIX").

■Background
Arconics currently operates its business globally with 12 local subsidiaries and 15 locations, but it does not have a sufficient grasp of the information security of each group company, and it is difficult to implement security measures at the level of the head office. The problem was that it was difficult. Under these circumstances, Alconix felt a sense of crisis after receiving news of a cyber incident that made headlines, and immediately considered countermeasures to strengthen the governance of the entire group. We looked for a system that would allow our head office to accurately monitor the status of IT asset holdings and patch application status without placing a burden on group companies, and we introduced Macnica 's ASM service.

■ ASM Reason for choosing our service
ASM services are independently developed and deployed by Macnica. Mpression Cyber Security Service ™ solutions. Using Macnica 's unique knowledge, we comprehensively investigate the publicly available assets and risks of the target company and its group companies, preventing critical incidents such as ransomware before they occur.
Arconics is for the following reasons: ASM We decided to introduce the service.
・Ability to conduct surveys globally with little burden on group companies
・Ability to not only understand IT assets but also explain the risk status of each asset, response priority, and its basis
・Through expert scrutiny, highly accurate results can be obtained by excluding assets that are not related to the company.

■Introduction effects
Arconics investigates the ownership status of IT assets at each group company through email and interviews every year, and with this ASM service, we discovered approximately 1.5 times as many IT assets as we knew before the survey. I was able to do. In addition, the reports provided by the ASM service are graphical with screen data as evidence, and they specifically indicate what needs to be done as a priority, making it easy for employees to become familiar with the IT of each group company. Even those in charge who had not done so were able to respond easily.
In addition, Arconics uses ASM services as an ongoing research service. As a result, we were able to early detect high-risk IT assets newly added at overseas locations and prevent global security incidents.

■Future outlook
At Arconics, the security awareness of our group companies has increased since we introduced the ASM service. We would like to further strengthen our security governance in the future.

Macnica will contribute to the appropriate management of IT assets and efficient risk management through the provision of ASM services, and will strive to reduce the damage caused by cyber attacks to Japanese companies.

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