Network Security Case Studies from Bulletproofsi.com

Company Name:  Major Drilling Group
Video: Francis McGuire

Problem:  Thursday 4:00 AM.  Major fire discovered at the Moncton Head Office for Major Drilling.

Resulting situation:  A 450 person, publicly traded company completely down from an operations standpoint.  Operating in 22 different countries...being down is not an option.

Bulletproof's Solution:  Bulletproof CEO, Steven Burns, receives a call at 4:30 AM at his home in Fredericton from a Senior Executive at Major Drilling informing him of the situation.  Mr. Burns immediately gets in contact with three of his best people and asks them to leave immediately en route to Moncton.  Bulletproof went into full disaster recovery operations mode implementing a swift plan to restore communications and mission critical systems as quickly as possible.

Result: In just 3 hours, servers and mission critical gear is en route to being relocated to Bulletproof’s secure data center in Charlottetown PEI, more than 150 KM’s away.   By 5:00 pm Friday, email communications and mission critical systems are back up and running.  By 8:00 AM  AST on Monday morning all systems are operational and Major Drilling escapes what could be a potential “disaster”.

Company Name:  A financial services provider

Problem:  A significantly increase in network traffic was seen by the customer on a service provider traffic report.  A quick analysis of the situation by Bulletproof shows a probable security breach.

Resulting situation:  A breach in one of their public web servers was allowing malicious users to host pirated video and software data. The resulting malicious traffic was saturating the network connection. The larger concern was to what extent the server was compromised and if other systems or sensitive data were affected.

Bulletproof's Solution:  Bulletproof performed initial triage of the systems affected and put a quick stop to the initial attack. Following this Bulletproof’s security consultants performed a detailed analysis on the system affected and all systems with connectivity to it.  
As a final stage of the solution Bulletproof made recommendations to the customer to provide better protection going forward on this and other public web servers.

Result:  The result of this effort was a minimizing of losses to the customer and a quick recovery to operations.  The root cause was found and traced to a specific data and no sensitive data was compromised.


Company Name: Anyware Group

Problem: Anyware Group needed to provide their customers with an assurance that their ROAM remote access portal and medical access portals are secure.

Resulting situation: As part of their ongoing security and application improvement program Anyware Group knew that they needed to have a third party company perform a full assessment of their product and services.

Bulletproof’s Solution: Bulletproof has performed annual security assessments of the ROAM group of portal services for 4 years running. Testing includes full external penetration testing and vulnerability assessment of software and hosting systems.

Result: With the assistance of Bulletproof’s efforts the ROAM portal continues to be a robust and secure solution for remote access.