Aluminium Dunkerque is Europe’s largest primary aluminum smelter, specializing in the production of aluminum sheets/slabs and ingots for applications in transportation, automotive, aerospace, packaging, building, and construction sectors. Aluminium Dunkerque is also positioned as a world leader in sustainable and carbon-neutral aluminum for its customers and community.
The Challenge
To Deploy MFA to Respond to ANSSI Best Practices, and to Monitor User Activity
In 2021, Aluminium Dunkerque was bought by American Industrial Partners, a private equity firm. This sale, as well as their new Microsoft Office 365 tenancy, prompted them to want to deploy MFA to all employees to secure access to both local applications and the cloud, and to better protect their high-privilege administrators for remote access.
The Solution
Expanding UserLock’s Use-Case to MFA Across the Enterprise
The IT team originally found UserLock thanks to an online search of Active Directory monitoring solutions. At the time, they were looking for contextual restrictions and the ability to more easily monitor users in real-time.
Then, when the IT team was looking for an MFA solution, they turned back to UserLock.
After testing UserLock’s MFA, they confirmed that it would help them align with ANSSI security requirements. They didn’t feel the need to test any other solutions.
We use the Microsoft Authenticator app, and found it really simple to set up with UserLock. The authentication process is quick and easy for our users.
Pascal Boulogne
IT Manager at Aluminium Dunkerque
The Result
Satisfying ANSSI Requirements With Easy-to-Use MFA & Secure User Monitoring
For over four years now, UserLock has enabled the IT team to monitor access outside of work hours, along with all login logoff activity.
Since they first onboarded the solution, the IT team has detected and quickly blocked abnormal connections thanks to UserLock’s real-time monitoring. And now, with MFA, the team has access to an additional security measure to secure external and admin connections, like RDP sessions. This means they can now align with ANSSI MFA requirements without onboarding and investing in an additional tool.
I’d recommend UserLock as an MFA solution but also as an easy way to monitor Active Directory user activity. And UserLock also helps us align with the recommendations from ANSSI. We chose UserLock based on this security aspect.
Pascal Boulogne
IT Manager at Aluminium Dunkerque