Case Study
FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM BEEFS UP CYBERSECURITY PROGRAM AHEAD OF SEC SCRUTINY
CLIENT CHALLENGE Senior management at this mature financial services firm recognized that it is vulnerable to increasingly common and complex cyber threats. While the firm had a skilled and experienced technology team, management also recognized that additional security controls were needed to achieve parity with its peer group. When the company received notice from the SEC foreshadowing increased regulatory scrutiny, management knew it needed an objective, third-party assessment of controls maturity and prioritized list of remediation projects so it could make wise investment decisions. APPROACH Management engaged Coalfire to serve as an independent assessor organization, and instructed Coalfire to conduct a gap analysis that would compare the firm’s current controls progr