Security services streamlined with Tresorit’s fully compliant partner data rooms

White Hat IT Security, a rapidly expanding Hungarian IT security firm, required an ultra-secure solution for exchanging confidential information with their partners. The key criteria was to store and share data effectively, while maintaining the highest level of confidentiality and staying compliant with the strictest industry security regulations (such as TISAX and GDPR). Tresorit enables White Hat to set up virtual partner data rooms in a matter of seconds, allowing secure collaboration with their clients in critical situations.

The company: White Hat IT Security is an IT security service company, offering a diverse range of managed security solutions and on-demand cyber services, incident response and training courses. Since its inception in 2018, White Hat has expanded rapidly outside of Hungary to establish a growing customer base globally. The company, now present in 11 countries including Germany, Japan, Hong Kong and the United States, offers its clients access to an award-winning managed solution, EU-wide unique training portfolio and the expertise of its senior specialists with NATO Secret level security clearances. Its services range from ITS consulting and audits (including TISAX preparation) to in-depth vulnerability research and incident management.

Challenges: As an IT security firm handling sensitive information, White Hat needs round the clock protection to confidential information exchanges with its partners. White Hat has strict rules around storing confidential work files, containing highly sensitive, NDA-regulated and sometimes even dangerous data. Therefore, it is essential for the company to utilize an ultra secure collaboration tool to support their high-stakes operations.

Search for a solution: Working in cybersecurity, a crucial criteria for White Hat was that the solution offered robust security features including end-to-end encryption. Other decisive factors that White Hat looked at when evaluation options were the following:

“We send out custom offers with exact work methods to our partners; and they entrust us with their complete infrastructure topologies, access methods, and other protection-worthy business secrets. We create security status reports, incident analysis and vulnerability inventories and they share their internal contact data for phishing campaigns with us. In our line of work, nearly all of the data we exchange is sensitive, secret or both. This made our choice of storage solution both mission-critical and image-defining.” explains Sándor Fehér, CEO of White Hat IT Security.

After mapping all available solutions, Tresorit’s platform came out on top of White Hat’s vendor shortlist as it ticked all the boxes of the company’s complex series of requirements and was also recommended by external security experts.

Implementation and results: Tresorit’s solution allows White Hat to respond to the growing threat of cyberattacks by rapidly setting up secure virtual data rooms for projects without creating separate accounts for their clients. This is a key component to White Hat’s success in providing scalable and adaptive managed security services for companies in need of enterprise-grade security for newly established workstations or ‘endpoints’ of diverse platforms. Tresorit’s intuitive and user-friendly application seamlessly integrated into White Hat’s workflow, resulting in a notable increase in productivity.

Tresorit also helped White Hat in achieving its 2021 objective, namely to support their automotive customers’ goals around information security and data protection related to TISAX – by helping their customers understand the challenges of fulfilling the strictest TISAX requirements and preparing them for the TISAX audit.

“Due to continuous development of self-driving cars and alternative-fueled vehicles, the automotive industry is a prime target for cybercriminals. White Hat aims to help automotive customers on their journey towards TISAX with comprehensive analysis and consultancy, while Tresorit can present a critical IT tool for safeguarding sensitive automotive data across their value chain.” emphasizes Fehér.

“Even with full TISAX compliance, an external MSSP and regular audits, IT security is a continuous process. However, with strong alliances like Tresorit, White Hat can now remove a huge part of their clients’ security concerns and risks from their processes, to concentrate on what really matters.” - he added.

“Building on our partnerships, we continue to steer a course towards expanding our operations in Europe, primarily within Germany. With prominent partners like Audi and Mobotix AG, we offer a proven solution with the help of strong advocates for digital security as the bedrock of the automotive industry’s future.” says Fehér.

Feedback and lessons learned: “We select our partners with great care.” explains Fehér. “Using Tresorit as our central storage and collaboration tool allows us to communicate with our partners with confidence and to keep even our most sensitive incident response files safe. Moving to the cloud with Tresorit was a decision we didn’t make lightly – and one we don’t regret at all!”

Conclusion: With Tresorit, White Hat successfully established secure partner data rooms for projects, streamlined incident response, and ensured the confidentiality of communications and sensitive partner data. The platform’s seamless integration and robust security features have significantly enhanced White Hat’s operational efficiency and client trust.