How GLG secures its global network of experts and their digital assets in a time of explosive growth

GLG's clients include some of the world's leading banks, private equity firms, tech companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, and management and strategy consultancies. Securely connecting these clients' decisionmakers with GLG's deep bench of 1.2 million expert Network Partners all over the world enables smarter business decisions across industries. Early in its history, GLG had distributed much of its expertise through whitepapers, but discovered that its clients preferred live interactions with the experts themselves. To meet this client need, GLG had to secure connections between individual clients and an enormously complex and ever-changing roster of participants, creating an unusually broad attack surface for cybercriminals. Security leaders at GLG understood that they needed to be able to protect all stakeholders' systems/data/infrastructure against threats, requiring upgrades whose success hinged on finding the right cybersecurity asset management solution.  

Before Axonius, GLG's small security team of four full-timers struggled to identify, manage, and reduce risk across the organization, especially when adding new tools. Over the span of five months, Axonius helped GLG triple the size of its core engineering team and launch a CrowdStrike rollout to the entire team. "Axonius has been crucial, specifically in creating an entire CrowdStrike dashboard to track all the migrations from our previous tools," says GLG Security Operations Engineer Brian Wendland. Pain points solved included GLG's legacy spreadsheet-based asset tracking. "A lot of things were managed through spreadsheets...a lot," Wendland remembers. "Axonius allows us to see all of our assets and identify location, IP, even ownership." Today, Wendland and his team use the Axonius-powered CrowdStrike dashboard daily and don't hesitate to share it with GLG's CEO Gemma Postlethwaite.