Zero-trust security framework for a 5,000-seat fintech firm. Reduced breach surface by 94%, eliminated 47 critical vulnerabilities, and built a defense posture that has held for 24 months and counting.
The client — a regulated fintech serving institutional capital markets — came to us after a near-miss incident. A spear-phishing campaign had reached three senior engineers; only luck and a sharp intern had prevented credentials from being exfiltrated.
The board mandated a complete security re-architecture in 9 months, with zero customer-facing downtime, zero compromise on developer velocity, and a written posture that could survive a Big Four audit.
Mapped every asset, every dependency, every adversary. Output: a 60-page threat catalog the security team still uses today.
Migrated all 5,000 users to phishing-resistant FIDO2. SSO consolidation. Zero-trust device posture checks.
Microsegmentation across all production VPCs. Lateral movement budget reduced from "the world" to "the workload".
Adversary simulation cadence — weekly automated, monthly manual, quarterly red-team — wired into a remediation SLA.
24/7 SOC with playbooks for the top 50 attack scenarios. MTTD reduced from 14 days to 11 minutes.