Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Recorded Future Helps Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany Stay One Step Ahead of Cyber Threats

Challenge

• Complex operations across electronics, healthcare, and life sciences
• Escalating ransomware threats and sophisticated threat actors
• Disparate intelligence sources made prioritization difficult
• Everchanging threat landscape scattered team focus

Outcome

• Unified platform enabled focus and prioritization through actionable intelligence
• Prioritized vulnerability patching based on risk level
• Team stays a step ahead of threat actors
• Insikt Group research filled team resource gaps

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany faced the challenge of protecting a vast, complex business spanning electronics, healthcare, and life sciences against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. With ransomware representing one of the most significant risks to their operations, the company's cybersecurity team struggled to synthesize intelligence from disparate sources and prioritize responses effectively. The evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures of threat actors made it critical for the company to understand not just what threats existed, but what attackers were specifically targeting.

Recorded Future transformed Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s cybersecurity operations by consolidating threat intelligence into a single, actionable platform. Christopher Wilke, Head of Cybersecurity Operations, emphasizes how this unified approach enables his team to focus energy on critical threats and vulnerabilities while saving valuable time. The platform's integration with SOAR systems provides seamless threat visualization across teams, while Vulnerability Intelligence helps prioritize patching efforts to reduce risk most effectively. Additionally, research from Recorded Future's Insikt Group fills intelligence gaps where Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s team lacks the bandwidth for independent investigation, creating what Wilke describes as "a very competitive advantage" that fundamentally changed their security posture.