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Case Study: Financial Services

How a Fintech Bank Halved Its Exposed Risk With Red Teaming and Developer Training

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Overview

A large financial technology and banking organization was seeking a partner that could assist with improving their environment, products, services, and general security posture.

Not only was the organization heavily influenced by banking regulators, but the executive leadership was genuinely interested in understanding their risk and wanted an unbiased opinion from a well-versed service provider.

industry

Fintech Banking

Challenges

Obtaining a risk baseline of both process and product.

How STACKTITAN Helped

The success of an initial highly skilled red-team exercise, intended to test technology, people, and process, established STACKTITAN as the organization’s “go-to” trusted advisor. STACKTITAN has been tasked with and successfully delivered the following:

  • Red-team testing and training
  • Acute (targeted) Penetration Testing
  • Web and mobile application security assessments
  • Application source-code reviews
  • Vulnerability management program
  • Secure software development training

STACKTITAN played an important role in helping the organization maintain the necessary level of assurance that their business and consumers are secure.

50%

Exposed risk reduction

10

Business apps assessed

4

Workshops trainings

120

Developers trained

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Solution

Create an ongoing program that consists of both technical security testing and training to continually improve networks, applications, and awareness.

Results

The organization continues to improve and evolve. Threat detection rates have increased and dwell time has decreased, year over year.

Next Steps

Continual security program enhancements based on performance feedback. Trusted advisory services allowing direct-line to discuss emerging threats and effective defensive strategies.

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