Softcat comes to St John Ambulance's aid

VAR wins deal to ensure first aid organisation's network is compliant with latest security threats

First Aid: Softcat is helping St John Ambulance run a safe network

Softcat has bagged a deal to help national first aid charity St John Ambulance become fully PCI compliant.

The VAR will implement a security information event management (SIEM) solution from LogRhythm, to bring a new level of automated reporting and alerting to the charity to simplify how it manages its network and meets compliance targets.

Karl Heydenrych, IT director at St John Ambulance, said Softcat and LogRhythm came top of its evaluation class.

“Softcat demonstrated an excellent understanding of our operation and how the different technologies available could help meet our needs," he said. "As such, we fully trusted the company’s suggestion that we add LogRhythm to our shortlist of log data management solution providers. We evaluated a number of offerings but LogRhythm stood out as being more flexible and configurable than the others.

"We believe that this ensures a better fit for our business and brings us a faster return on investment, which is important for us as a charity, so we can equip more people with first aid skills."

Also in partnership with security distributor Vigil Software, LogRhythm will collect logs from various PCI-DSS components on the St John Ambulance network and alert on any unusual activity.

Ross Brewer, managing director APAC and EMEA at LogRhythm, said: “Charitable organisations such as St John Ambulance are no more immune to internal or external threats than any large blue-chip company. However, they often have a greater challenge when it comes to keeping operational costs minimal.

"Having File Integrity Monitoring fully included within the SIEM solution ensures a straightforward approach to identifying any unauthorised modifications to systems or files without the added expenditure and time required to install and operate a separate system.”