Défis
Genuine Parts Company has kept cars and industrial equipment running since 1928, and today operates more than 10,800 locations across 17 countries with over 65,000 teammates. Decades of growth through acquisitions left it with a sprawling, decentralized estate spanning AWS, Azure, GCP, SaaS applications, and on-premises systems, with more than 18 separate cloud environments. The team could not confidently answer a basic question: Where is our sensitive data? As Damian Apone puts it, "if you don't know where it's at, you can't protect it." GPC's earlier tool reached only the Office 365 environment and only unstructured data, leaving everything else out of view.
Solution
GPC evaluated more than nine DSPM providers and chose Cyera for its speed and accuracy, with a 95% true-positive rate compared with 53% for the next closest vendor. Working together, GPC and Cyera scanned the entire Office 365 tenant across 18 cloud and on-premises environments in six weeks, including 82 million NetApp files in 40 days, and layered Omni DLP over Microsoft Purview to reduce alert noise. AI Guardian then gave the team the visibility to adopt AI with governance already in place. The proof of value alone was, in Apone's words, "eye-opening and astronomical."
Résultats
In six months, GPC drove $45 million in quantified risk out of the business and moved data protection from a top-five risk to near the bottom of its register. Cyera mapped 532 billion sensitive records and resolved 98% of high-risk cloud data issues. A team that had estimated its sensitive data and been "off by a factor of 500%" now has a real number and the workflows to act on it. As Apone says, "There's only one solution and that solution is Cyera."
Discover how Genuine Parts Company turned data visibility into $45 million in measurable risk reduction.
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