Heavy equipment dealer advances operational resilience through comprehensive cyber assessment

A major heavy equipment dealer partnered with Yearling Solutions to strengthen cybersecurity and business resilience capabilities, ensuring operational continuity during potential cyber events.

The Challenge

The organization manages complex dealership, service, and field operations across both on-premises and cloud environments. Leadership faced growing exposure from phishing and credential-based attacks targeting distributed workforces and connected equipment systems.

They wanted an independent, practical review of perimeter security, internal segmentation, and incident response readiness to ensure operational continuity during a potential cyber event.

Key Objectives:

Verify perimeter and cloud security controls against evolving threats
Review internal network segmentation and privileged access controls
Validate monitoring and detection effectiveness for early threat identification
Ensure incident response readiness and business continuity planning

Our Approach

Yearling Solutions executed a multi-phase Cyber Resilience Services engagement that combined assessment, testing, and strategic improvement planning. Our team worked collaboratively with the client's security and IT leadership to evaluate current capabilities and provide actionable guidance.

Key Focus Areas:

Perimeter & Cloud Security

Verification of perimeter and cloud security controls against the current threat landscape

Network Segmentation

Review of internal network segmentation and privileged access control architecture

Detection Effectiveness

Validation of monitoring and detection capabilities for threat visibility

Identity Protection

Advisory on identity protection and authentication enhancement strategies

Executive Reporting

YearlingIQ platform delivery of resilience metrics and strategic priorities

Executive Reporting with YearlingIQ

Leadership received executive reporting and resilience metrics through the YearlingIQ platform, providing clear visibility into control effectiveness, capability progress, and strategic priorities for ongoing cyber resilience.

Results

The engagement provided the client with validated security findings and a clear roadmap for ongoing cyber resilience. Through Yearling's guidance, the organization now maintains a proactive defense model that aligns technical security controls with business continuity requirements.

Key Outcomes:

Confirmed perimeter and cloud security controls are effective against current credential and phishing threats
Closed MFA coverage gaps and tightened privileged access enforcement across on-premises and cloud systems
Added detection use cases and updated response playbooks through structured advisory collaboration with the internal security team
Delivered written findings and a prioritized remediation roadmap covering detection gaps, incident recovery procedures, and governance controls

Impact

The Cyber Resilience Services engagement equipped the organization with validated security insights and strategic guidance for continuous improvement. The client now maintains operational uptime, data integrity, and customer confidence through a defense model aligned with business priorities.