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	HRI Properties Real Estate Development Firm Uses Comodo’s Containment Technology to Protect and Secure Its Data

HRI Properties Real Estate Development Firm Uses Comodo’s Containment Technology to Protect and Secure Its Data

Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security Cybersecurity & Privacy - Malware Protection Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Intrusion Detection Systems
Services	Cybersecurity Services System Integration
Challenge	HRI Properties, a full-service real estate development company based in New Orleans, Louisiana, faced significant challenges in protecting its critical data. The company had a mixture of multiple antivirus solutions from different vendors, which led to occasional malware outbreaks and major interruptions. The lack of centralized management and visibility into each endpoint's antivirus software was extremely troubling, as it prevented HRI from proactively addressing new risks. HRI needed a new security solution that could manage multiple endpoints from a single console, provide reports on endpoint status and activity, and protect endpoints from new, unidentified, and unknown threats. Read More
About Customer	HRI Properties (HRI) is a full-service real estate development company based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The company is a national leader in the adaptive reuse of historic structures and has completed 70 large-scale projects with a total funding value of $2 billion. These projects include 5,114 apartment units, 4,116 hotel rooms, and over 1,300,000 square feet of office and retail space. HRI's mission is to revitalize cities by creating diverse, vibrant, and sustainable communities. The company keeps all its critical information online, including restricted information such as contracts, permits, zoning rules, regulations, ordinances, and budgets, which need to be protected and secured from malware and service interruptions. Read More
Solution	HRI Properties evaluated several security solutions, including Symantec, Kaspersky, McAfee, and Comodo. Ultimately, Comodo's endpoint security solution was selected due to its streamlined dashboard, implementation process, and multiple layers of defense. Comodo Endpoint Security Manager (ESM) 3.4 software offers seven layers of defense, including antivirus, firewall, web URL filtering, host intrusion prevention, auto-sandbox (containment), file reputation, and virus scope (behavioral analyzer). Comodo's patent-pending automatic containment technology eliminates malware outbreaks by running untrusted processes in a secure environment. The Comodo ESM dashboard provides panoramic insight and control over all aspects of endpoint protection and management, displaying 14 critical metrics at hundreds of endpoints. This facilitates rapid alerting and remediation of issues, allowing administrators to terminate processes, stop or start services, uninstall applications, and delete unwanted files without interfering with end users. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Malware Protection

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Intrusion Detection Systems

Services

Cybersecurity Services

System Integration

Challenge

HRI Properties, a full-service real estate development company based in New Orleans, Louisiana, faced significant challenges in protecting its critical data. The company had a mixture of multiple antivirus solutions from different vendors, which led to occasional malware outbreaks and major interruptions. The lack of centralized management and visibility into each endpoint's antivirus software was extremely troubling, as it prevented HRI from proactively addressing new risks. HRI needed a new security solution that could manage multiple endpoints from a single console, provide reports on endpoint status and activity, and protect endpoints from new, unidentified, and unknown threats.

About Customer

HRI Properties (HRI) is a full-service real estate development company based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The company is a national leader in the adaptive reuse of historic structures and has completed 70 large-scale projects with a total funding value of $2 billion. These projects include 5,114 apartment units, 4,116 hotel rooms, and over 1,300,000 square feet of office and retail space. HRI's mission is to revitalize cities by creating diverse, vibrant, and sustainable communities. The company keeps all its critical information online, including restricted information such as contracts, permits, zoning rules, regulations, ordinances, and budgets, which need to be protected and secured from malware and service interruptions.

Solution

HRI Properties evaluated several security solutions, including Symantec, Kaspersky, McAfee, and Comodo. Ultimately, Comodo's endpoint security solution was selected due to its streamlined dashboard, implementation process, and multiple layers of defense. Comodo Endpoint Security Manager (ESM) 3.4 software offers seven layers of defense, including antivirus, firewall, web URL filtering, host intrusion prevention, auto-sandbox (containment), file reputation, and virus scope (behavioral analyzer). Comodo's patent-pending automatic containment technology eliminates malware outbreaks by running untrusted processes in a secure environment. The Comodo ESM dashboard provides panoramic insight and control over all aspects of endpoint protection and management, displaying 14 critical metrics at hundreds of endpoints. This facilitates rapid alerting and remediation of issues, allowing administrators to terminate processes, stop or start services, uninstall applications, and delete unwanted files without interfering with end users.

Impact #1	Comodo's endpoint security solution provided HRI with a streamlined interface that displays 14 critical metrics at hundreds of endpoints, facilitating rapid alerting and remediation of issues.
Impact #2	The automatic containment feature within Comodo's technology allowed HRI to create rules to limit and block untrusted applications and isolate applications such as web browsers for kiosk-type settings.
Impact #3	The ESM console became a valuable source of information on all endpoints, providing a snapshot of resource utilization, event log entries, and overall protection strategy.

Impact #1

Comodo's endpoint security solution provided HRI with a streamlined interface that displays 14 critical metrics at hundreds of endpoints, facilitating rapid alerting and remediation of issues.

Impact #2

The automatic containment feature within Comodo's technology allowed HRI to create rules to limit and block untrusted applications and isolate applications such as web browsers for kiosk-type settings.

Impact #3

The ESM console became a valuable source of information on all endpoints, providing a snapshot of resource utilization, event log entries, and overall protection strategy.

Benefit #1	HRI Properties completed 70 large-scale projects with a total funding value of $2 billion.
Benefit #2	The projects included 5,114 apartment units, 4,116 hotel rooms, and over 1,300,000 square feet of office and retail space.

Benefit #1

HRI Properties completed 70 large-scale projects with a total funding value of $2 billion.

Benefit #2

The projects included 5,114 apartment units, 4,116 hotel rooms, and over 1,300,000 square feet of office and retail space.

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HRI Properties Real Estate Development Firm Uses Comodo’s Containment Technology to Protect and Secure Its Data

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