OVERVIEW CARE

CARE Ratings is one of India’s leading credit rating agencies. Established in 1993, the company has played a pivotal role in supporting the country’s debt and capital market sectors. CARE Ratings is renowned for its use of technology to provide highly accurate credit assessments that incorporate near real-time analysis of domestic and global economic factors. A CEO-sponsored digital transformation of the company has been launched to incrementally drive business growth.

WHY CROWDSTRIKE CARE

Ratings’ legacy signature-based endpoint protection solution was inflicting a significant burden on the company’s networks, servers and security team. To reduce workload and advance its digital transformation efforts, CARE Ratings wanted to minimize the amount of manual oversight involved in monitoring and securing the perimeter. The cloud-native CrowdStrike Falcon platform provided the low-bandwidth, signature-less approach and AI and ML capabilities CARE Ratings needed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of its defenses.

DEPLOYMENT CARE

CARE Ratings was fully operational – with CrowdStrike Falcon® deployed across 1,000 endpoints, with the intuitive Falcon GUI enabling an accelerated learning curve and ongoing ease of use. The lightweight CrowdStrike agent deployed effortlessly across the company’s hybrid on-premises and cloudbased infrastructure and created immediate protection, including work-from-home and mobile employees.

GAINED VISIBILITY

Utilizing the centralized management capabilities of Falcon provides enterprise-wide visibility and enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the CARE Ratings’ security team. Ravi Shankar, head of IT infrastructure for CARE Ratings, explained, “CrowdStrike has helped to simplify security operations with a single management dashboard across all functions.”

The minimal impact of the Falcon platform on network bandwidth and compute cycles instantly removed the overhead imposed by the displaced legacy endpoint solution. This resulted in enhanced end-user productivity and an ensuing acceleration in the overall responsiveness of the business. Integrated reporting and automated detection improved compliance across the organization and elevated the confidence of stakeholders.

“We need technology to run autonomously, with minimal human intervention: CrowdStrike Falcon harnesses AI and ML to provide continuous protection across our highly diverse infrastructure with minimal effort. Our digital transformation is built on the principles of accuracy, scalability, and resiliency: CrowdStrike delivers these for us.” A Shiju Rawther Chief Information & Technology Officer CARE Ratings, Ltd.