- Ansys is the world's leading software simulation company.
So we provide a platform where you can build
real-world objects in software, test them, prototype them,
see how they're going to operate
when they get out into the physical world,
before you have to build it.
At Ansys, we prefer to do the majority
of our cybersecurity work in house.
Now, the pain point you get into
when you're trying to run operations
entirely in house is manpower.
If you want to have 24 by seven coverage
every day of the week,
the level that you have to scale that team up to
is just unrealistic for a company that has 5,000 employees.
We partnered with Red Canary
because we've worked with many of their engineers
and incident responders over the years.
We've known some of these guys for more than a decade,
and we trust them to be part of our team.
So, Red Canary's been supporting our operations
by giving us that coverage
that is around the clock at all times.
- We help our customers focus on true threats
that are active in their environment,
or that could turn active,
so that we can stop these breaches
before they get very expensive
and very damaging for our customers.
- We are ingesting all of the data
that comes out of the Microsoft Defender
security platform tools.
And we take that data and we look through it
for threats on a real-time basis.
The integration with our MDR service
and the Microsoft security suite allows customers
to extract more value out of what they have invested
in their Microsoft security tools.
- Another advantage of Red Canary
is we only see what happens to Ansys,
but Red Canary gets to see what happens
to all their customers.
With the visibility they provide,
they know what bad looks like on a workstation,
and that can be replicated
across all their customers' workstations.
- One of the values to a customer
of end-to-end visibility is that we are no longer looking at
a single alert, let's say,
from a single endpoint or a single system.
We have the ability to zoom out
and look across their entire IT environment.
- A company like Microsoft has insight
into systems all over the planet
in all sorts of different contexts,
and taking that insight and making it available
to customers via Microsoft Defender Experts
for Hunting is extremely valuable.
- When we first heard about Microsoft Defender
Experts for Hunting, there was some initial concern
that it may be a competitive offering,
but we've decided to help Microsoft
design a manage detection and response solution
because our laser focus is on adding value,
providing value to our customers.
And one of the encouraging parts of that whole process
was that the team involved listened to partners.
They listened to what we had to say.
The result of that, I think,
is something that we are now excited about.
- Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting
is going to be really valuable for partners
to take advantage of a global view.
- Our ability to deliver results
to our customers is impacted and has increased as a result.
On average, we see about a four X increase
over the detections there,
and about a 96% decrease in noise.
- Working with Red Canary does increase our confidence,
because it's more eyes on the glass.
- I'm really excited to see how we,
together with Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting,
can create an experience for customers
that is contextualized for them,
but incorporates this global view of security.