Rent-A-Center chose to move its IT platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to achieve the agility it needed to continue innovating and growing. “Using AWS, we were able to get out of the business of maintaining our own data centers,” says Sprague. “We no longer have to worry about keeping networking up to date, managing power and cooling systems, and ensuring disaster recovery and business continuity.”

While AWS provided a high level of platform-level security and compliance capabilities, Rent-A-Center wanted to continue using a managed security service to reduce the cost and management overhead of protecting applications, devices, and data, and to minimize risk as it moved to a more agile development approach. Rent-A-Center discovered that Alert Logic was available on AWS through the AWS Marketplace, an online store that helps organizations find, buy, and use software and services on AWS. The company quickly decided to adopt Alert Logic in the cloud based on past positive experiences.

Alert Logic on AWS is designed for the cloud, empowering Rent-A-Center with advanced threat analytics, detection, and alerting across its applications and services. Using full-packet inspection within the AWS environment, it uniquely protects against threats that proliferate inside an organization’s cloud environment as well as attacks coming from outside.

It also helps the company stay on top of what’s going on in a fast-moving environment “Along with the Alert Logic services we were already using on-premises, we now subscribe to Alert Logic Cloud Insights™, which provides a graphical view of what’s going on in our AWS cloud,” says Sprague. “With multiple IT and business groups on AWS, we need to be able to understand what they’re doing and where our data resides. Using Alert Logic, we can see if someone has inadvertently moved something into the cloud that shouldn’t be there.”