DPD Czech takes cybersecurity very seriously, as evidenced by an entire warning section on its website. A renewed focus on cybersecurity, strategized with its security partner AMI Praha, was spurred into action as other businesses in the group suffered security breaches. In addition, new internal and external security rules and regulations reinforced to DPD Czech that it needed to strengthen its cybersecurity capabilities.
“I’ve worked with DPD Czech for several years and their cybersecurity posture has grown stronger and more sophisticated however, one of the key vulnerabilities DPD Czech faced previously was a lack of visibility over IT administrators and managing external IT services and support vendors who accessed the company’s business applications,” elaborated AMI Praha’s Sales Director, Petr Medřický. The company only had a basic tool for collecting and analyzing logs from hundreds of applications. It did not provide the level of detail needed for effective auditing and it required a lot of manual interventions.
DPD Czech’s goal was to bring in stronger and consistent security standards for all businesses in the group. Also, new regulations from the EU and Czech authorities, such as the NIS2 (The Network and Information Security Directive), were about to be introduced.
“We needed to know exactly what was happening in our IT environment because there were some blind spots,” said Vladimír Püschner, Project Innovation Director/CEE Lead for IT at DPD Czech. “I wanted to know what administrators were doing on our servers, especially our Linux servers which are more complex than our Windows servers. Essentially, I needed to lock all the doors in the DPD house.”
“We looked at five different products. But I have known about CyberArk for several years and I consider it to be the Formula 1 of cybersecurity and a stable, secure and perfect solution for DPD,” explained Mr. Püschner. “We are not talking about an entry-level vehicle; we are talking about a Mercedes. CyberArk is better than other solutions because of the range of features it offers and the fact that it has one administration console. We also needed to offer the best and least disruptive solution because if anything hinders my IT people, they will find a way around it.”