HFS Hot Vendor: Adarma

Enterprises are never 100% secure. You must do the due diligence to define your critical processes, services, and assets and to devise a plan to protect these as best you can. Equally important is a plan for how to deal with possible attacks. Enter Adarma, a UK based security services company focused on intelligence response. Adarma provides outsourced SOC (security operations center) services with advanced SOAR (security orchestration, automation, and response) capabilities. Its mission is to “make the world a safer place,” and it delivers solutions that industrialize threat management. Adarma began with eight people in 2009 (under the name Vacta); it currently has 300 permanent staff in the UK, the majority of whom are customer-facing experts delivering consulting or managed security services. Most of the experience to date has been to offer dedicated and shared SOC services, predominantly to UK-based finance and retail customers. However, its goal is to establish an industry-leading threat management platform that delivers consulting, engineering, technology, and managed services. Current offerings include SOC managed services and consulting, vulnerability management and consulting, SPLUNK engineering, ServiceNow engineering, cybersecurity monitoring, endpoint security management and engineering, and SOAR services. The company continues to strengthen these offerings, positioning them in a business context. Adarma has also delivered physical security services for a few clients and expects this to increase as cyber and physical security worlds converge. Current customers are largely FTSE 100 enterprise organizations in the retail or finance industries, with security leadership in the UK. Adarma is a key partner of Splunk for its enterprise security and SOAR services and was named Splunk Partner of the Year in 2019. However, it also recognizes that while automation can speed up intelligence acquisition, customers still need access to experts to solve the problem.