Archer Daniels Midland

Its Global Network Protected by nCircle™, Premier Agricultural
Processor Unlocks Nature’s Potential to Feed a Growing World

The vertically integrated world leader in agriculture, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities and products. The Company was founded in 1902 as Daniels Linseed Company and acquired Midland Linseed Products in 1923. Today, ADM is a leader in the production of soy meal and oil, ethanol, corn sweeteners and flour. In addition, ADM produces value-added food and feed ingredients.

Eliminating Network Exposures and Enforcing Security Policy

With thousands of network users—internal as well as external partners like growers, suppliers and customers—across hundreds of worldwide locations, system and network security is a crucial concern for ADM’s IT Director of Technical Systems, Gary Mruz. “Prior to adopting nCircle’s solution we had been managing vulnerabilities manually, but we were spending an inordinate amount of time keeping up with threats and applying patches,” he admits. “Even if we had unlimited staffing resources to toss at the vulnerability concern, there was no way we could have hired enough people to do a thorough enough job or respond to attacks fast enough. We knew we needed a more proactive solution to identify and control network vulnerabilities supplementing the anti-virus, firewall and IDS protections that were already in place.”

So Gary Mruz’s team evaluated the major vulnerability management vendors’ software and hardware solutions. “No other vulnerability management solution is as complete as nCircle’s IP360™,” he reports, “enabling ADM to enforce global security policies, eliminate network exposures, and achieve an unprecedented level of security operations efficiency. IP360’s payback was immediate.”

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