INVESTBANK proactively manages cyber risk with Unit 42

INVESTBANK partnered with Unit 42^® to enhance its cybersecurity framework, proactively managing cyber risks. The bank chose the Unit 42 Compromise Assessment service to gain access to expertise in threat intelligence, proactive security services, and incident response.

Unit 42 actively searches for both historical and ongoing indicators of compromise across the bank’s systems, identifying malicious activity and responding before further damage occurs. Collection and analysis of data at scale enables a deep-dive into impacted systems. It also surfaces non-malicious activities or characteristics that increase cybersecurity risk but might ordinarily slip under the radar, such as local administrators or shared accounts.

“We received a holistic view of our attack surface, which we used to limit our exposure. We were immediately able to enhance our security by tackling high, medium, and low risk threats,” says Riyad.

Unit 42 provides expert proactive security services to stay in front of threat actors - and the Retainer means those incident response experts are on hand to immediately contain, remediate, and eradicate any threat to the bank.

INVESTBANK can now quickly discover potential compromises, understand their impact, and receive immediate recommendations on ways to mitigate the risks, all of which have improved its security maturity. The bank uses scorecards to measure the success of security processes, such as rating risks and branch-attack simulation activities. “All of our security scorecards are showing an improvement compared to before,” says Riyad. “Unit 42 identifies vulnerabilities that normal security controls might miss.” By detecting and mitigating hidden cybersecurity threats, the bank can also adhere more closely to financial services regulations now and in the future.