A premier luxury car rental company with 80 US locations had outgrown its IT environment and, after being hit by ransomware, needed to understand the attack vectors and improve risk management, security, reliability, and high availability while moving toward a modern cloud footprint. Synoptek investigated the breach and assessed infrastructure, applications, and identity and access management, finding weak security configuration and awareness, limited monitoring and roles, poor network segmentation, risky AD replication to a sandbox, and use of generic external accounts. Synoptek then provided best-practice guidance and an 18-month security evolution roadmap covering hardening, vulnerability management, policies, network redesign, access control and monitoring, DLP, and SIEM, enabling a lo

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