Real-Time Visibility and Automated Compliance for Financial Services

The Challenge

With increasing pressure to meet a complex mix of global and local compliance requirements like PCI DSS, ISO 27001, DORA and SWIFT, the institution needed to replace its underperforming policy and vulnerability management solution. The prior vendor lacked real-time analytics, flexibility, and scalability, resulting in slow deployments, minimal use of purchased capabilities and ongoing gaps in policy visibility across regionally segmented operations.

The company sought to:

• Grant localized visibility to regional teams without compromising global oversight
• Orchestrate compliance assessments across frameworks like PCI, SWIFT, DORA, and ISO 27001
• Run real-time security analytics across hybrid environments (on-prem and cloud)
• Automate policy cleanup, certification, and optimization tasks with human-in-the-loop approvals only when necessary
• Build flexible, custom compliance playbooks based on their specific governance needs

The Solution

FireMon delivered a centralized, scalable network policy management solution capable of supporting their 1,000+ network environment including Cisco ACI, Fortinet, and NSX-T, with seamless onboarding of additional device types through modular device packs.

• Topology mapping and access path analytics provided a complete model of the network, allowing teams to visualize traffic workflows, identify risk exposure, and plan rule changes with precision
• Out-of-the-box, real-time compliance automation enabled continuous monitoring across global frameworks with flexibility to customize assessments to meet local regulatory requirements
• Full rule lifecycle management, including certification, optimization, and cleanup ensure policies remain efficient, secure, and audit ready
• Change automation workflows reduce manual intervention by orchestrating policy changes and only prompting input when human decision-making is required, improving both speed and accuracy
• Collaborative, API-first approach ensured seamless integrations with third party vendors with clear visibility and concise reporting

Results

• 100% of network coverage available via network modeling, offering full visibility through topology mapping and access path analytics, enabling precise control across 1,000+ firewalls, switches, and cloud environments
• 1,000+ devices supported with real-time visibility and policy enforcement
• 100% policy rules evaluated and optimized, ensuring redundant, shadowed, and overly permissive rules were identified and remediated
• <30 day deployment of FireMon core functionality, significantly accelerating time-to-value