FD Media: Unified Cloud Security with Google Security Command Centre and Crystalloids
Consolidating multiple tools into Security Command Center Premium empowered FD Media to gain real-time insights, streamline compliance, and improve its security posture.
The Challenge
With media companies facing twice as many cyberattacks as other industries due to the sensitive data they manage, security was a top concern for FD Media. Despite efforts to manage vulnerabilities and risks, their security process was fragmented and inefficient.
With multiple overlapping tools and no centralised view of their Google Cloud workloads, detecting and prioritising threats was slow and manual.
FD Media needed a solution to simplify security management, reduce complexity, and speed up response times to stay ahead of evolving threats.
The Goal
The approach to security wasn’t sustainable. FC Media needed a unified solution to integrate all its security tools and cover its entire Google Cloud environment. The goal was simple: reduce risk, increase response speed, and eliminate complexity without sacrificing security.
They wanted to streamline their security strategy, ensuring that threats were detected quickly, prioritised based on risk, and mitigated before causing damage.
Additionally, they aimed to meet compliance requirements more efficiently, without relying on multiple tools and manual processes.
About our customer
The FD Media Group is the largest media company in the financial and economic spheres. They provide entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professionals with information on the most important news from a financial and economic perspective through the brands Het Financieele Dagblad (FD), BNR, FD Persoonlijk, and Company.Info. Its mission is to help decision-makers in the Netherlands reach the best possible decisions by providing overview, insights, and prognoses through journalistic brands and quality products.
Start Your Success Story with Crystalloids
Partner with Crystalloids and Google Cloud to bring your project to life.
The Solution
FD Media chose Google Cloud Security Command Centre (SCC Premium) after considering several alternatives. SCC Premium’s seamless, scalable solution and native integration with Google Cloud aligned perfectly with the company's evolving needs.
This decision was driven by the desire to secure their entire cloud infrastructure under a unified platform, not just to implement another tool. Key factors in their decision included SCC Premium’s advanced features, such as:
- Event Threat Detection
- Container Threat Detection
- custom alert workflows.
With Crystalloids' support, the solution was integrated smoothly into FD Media’s existing workloads.
Beyond the implementation, Crystalloids established active monitoring processes, automated workflows, and customised alerts to ensure the security team could act on real-time insights without being overwhelmed by noise.
We also continuously manage FD Media’s security posture, improving visibility across the cloud environment and reducing response times by automatically prioritising high-risk issues.
This turned SCC Premium from a powerful tool into a fully managed and actionable security solution.
The Result
Implementing Security Command Center brought significant improvements, changing how FD Media manages security.
- Increased visibility and awareness: With a unified dashboard and continuous monitoring configured by Crystalloids, FD Media now has near real-time visibility of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and active threats across its Google Cloud environment.
- Automated prioritisation and faster response: Security findings are automatically prioritised by risk, drastically reducing investigation times. This allows the security team to concentrate on the most critical issues first, cutting response times and narrowing the window of potential exposure.
- Active posture management: Crystalloids’ ongoing monitoring and tuning of SCC Premium helps ensure that FD Media’s security posture continuously improves, adapting to evolving threats without adding operational complexity.
- Operational efficiency: By consolidating multiple tools into one platform, FD Media lowered costs, reduced complexity, and eliminated manual compliance reporting.
