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Multi-Signal MDR for Automotive Dealerships

Prevent revenue disruption and achieve compliance with 24/7 threat detection, investigation and containment that secures your automotive dealership.

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Meet compliance requirements and protect your automotive dealership from cyber threats with 24/7 multi-signal MDR

Despite automotive dealerships considering themselves as local or regional businesses that aren’t at risk, your dealership is an attractive target for cyberattacks due to the valuable sensitive financial data collected and stored from customers. Dealerships that do not prioritize automotive cybersecurity are vulnerable and will be perceived as an easy target by cybercriminals. This can leave systems exposed and puts clients’ personal financial data at risk. These factors highlight the critical need for a robust automotive dealership cybersecurity program.

Additionally, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Safeguards Rule categorizes automotive dealerships as financial institutions, requiring you to protect sensitive customer data as mandated by the 2003 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). This rule necessitates auto dealership groups to implement a cybersecurity program with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to ensure:

  • The security and confidentiality of consumer information
  • Protection against anticipated cyber threats
  • Protection against unauthorized access that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience to customers
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How eSentire Managed Detection and Response Can Help

We are recognized globally as The Authority in Managed Detection and Response (MDR) because we hunt, investigate and stop cyber threats before they become business-disrupting events. Now with 2000+ customers across 80+ countries globally, we have scaled to deliver cybersecurity services across all industries, with a proven track record in automotive cybersecurity where we protect car dealerships and auto groups across the US.

We support automotive dealership cybersecurity by:

  • Preventing operational disruption through a combination of 24/7 MDR Services, Exposure Management Services, and Incident Response Services
  • Minimizing regulatory penalties and third-party costs associated with data breaches
  • Ensuring your business remains compliant with stringent cybersecurity compliance and regulatory mandates, such as the Safeguards Rule and the GLBA
  • Reducing your business risk by helping your team identify your critical sources of value, discovering existing vulnerabilities, and addressing them based on the threat to your business
  • Protecting your data and customer data from ransomware attacks, third-party risk, data theft or exposure, and insider threats

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How eSentire Protects Automotive Dealerships

Operational Disruption and the Cost of Downtime

Protecting Against Supply Chain and Third-Party Vendor Risk

Preventing Ransomware Attacks

Avoiding Regulatory and Compliance Violations

KEY INDUSTRY CHALLENGE

Operational Disruption and the Cost of Downtime

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE HELPS

We detect malicious administrative activity through remote access tools and stop intrusions before malware can be deployed throughout your environment.

KEY INDUSTRY CHALLENGE

Protecting Against Supply Chain and Third-Party Vendor Risk

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE HELPS

We mitigate supply chain and third-party vendor risk.

  • eSentire Exposure Management experts support in security assessments, testing and make strategic recommendations to offset risks for the automotive industry.
  • eSentire Managed Detection and Response has repeatedly caught and stopped vendor compromises before vulnerability is reported.

KEY INDUSTRY CHALLENGE

Preventing Ransomware Attacks

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE HELPS

We monitor your attack surface 24/7 to discover intrusion attempts, preventing the pervasive deployment of malware and ransomware.

  • We support multi-signal coverage ensuring visibility across endpoint, network, log, cloud, identity, and other data sources for deep investigation and kill-switch response capabilities.
  • We offer endpoint protection to prevent your defenses from being disabled.

KEY INDUSTRY CHALLENGE

Avoiding Regulatory and Compliance Violations

HOW ESENTIRE MANAGED DETECTION AND RESPONSE HELPS

Our 24/7 Global SOCs leverage proven run books which include detectors mapped to requirements and reporting measures for GLBA, PCI DSS, CCPA, SOX, NYCRR, as well as state-level regulations.

Automotive Cybersecurity FAQ

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Automotive Cybersecurity FAQ

What is an automotive dealership cybersecurity program?

An automotive dealership cybersecurity program has administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to:

  • Ensure the security and confidentiality of consumer information
  • Protect against anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of information
  • Protect against unauthorized access to information that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience to customers

Why is automotive dealership cybersecurity important?

Automotive dealerships are the retail operational fronts for the automotive industry and are highly susceptible to cyberattacks that impact the financial, retail, and manufacturing industries. There are two primary reasons that automotive dealerships are attractive targets for cyberattacks:

  1. Automotive dealers possess a considerable amount of sensitive customer data
  2. Automotive dealership cybersecurity is not top of mind for security leaders

As a result, many cyberattackers view the average auto dealership as low hanging fruit with the potential of a quick payday.

Additionally, auto dealerships are required to meet the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Safeguards rule, which is designed to protect sensitive customer information, as your dealership is considered a financial institution because you issue and extend credit for the purposes of leasing or financing automobiles.

Your dealership should have automotive cybersecurity protection that prevents revenue disruption and achieves compliance requirements.

What are the cybersecurity compliance requirements for automotive dealerships?

All automotive dealerships in the U.S., big and small, are required to comply with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Safeguards Rule. This includes having the following 9 components in place as part of your automotive cybersecurity program:

  1. Designate a ‘qualified individual’ to implement and supervise their automotive cybersecurity program
  2. Conduct regular risk assessments
  3. Design and implement safeguards to control the risks identified in your risk assessments
  4. Regularly monitor and test the effectiveness of your safeguards
  5. Ensure all employees are provided with automotive cyber security training
  6. Monitor service providers
  7. Keep your automotive cybersecurity program current
  8. Create a written incident response plan, outlining roles, responsibilities, and remediation actions taken in the event of an incident
  9. Require your qualified individual to report the overall status of your automotive cyber security program

Watch our automotive dealership FTC Safeguards Rule webinar here or check out the Safeguards rule compliance checklist here to learn more about how to achieve compliance with 24/7 Multi-signal MDR.

How does eSentire protect automotive dealerships?

At eSentire, we support automotive dealers through a combination of our Exposure Managed Services, 24/7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services, and Incident Response services to ensure your automotive dealership remains compliant and internal/customer data remains protected. Learn more about our automotive dealership cybersecurity protection in our data sheet.

eSentire Automotive Cybersecurity Services

At eSentire, we go beyond the market’s capability in threat response. Our multi-signal MDR approach ingests endpoint, network, log, cloud, asset, identity and vulnerability data that enables complete attack surface visibility. Enriched detections from the eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) are applied to captured data identifying known & unknown threats including suspicious activity and zero-day attacks.

With two 24/7 Security Operations Centers staffed with cyber experts and Elite Threat Hunters, an industry-leading XDR Cloud Platform, and refined security operations processes, we can detect and respond with a Mean Time to Contain of 15 minutes.

Managed Detection & Response

We deliver Response + Remediation you can trust. By combining our cutting-edge XDR platform, 24/7 SOC support, around-the-clock threat hunting and security operations leadership, we hunt and stop known & unknown threats before they disrupt your automotive dealership.

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Exposure Management Services

Strategic services including Managed Vulnerability Assessments, vCISO and Managed Phishing & Security Awareness Training to identify gaps, build defensive strategies, operationalize risk mitigation and continuously advance your security program.

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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Battle-tested Incident Commander level expertise, crime scene reconstruction and digital forensics investigations that can bear scrutiny in a court of law. The world’s fastest threat suppression guarantee with a 4-hour SLA available with our IR Retainer.

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