Case Study: Advance Financial achieves 360-degree visibility and 3X cost savings with Arctic Wolf Networks

Arctic Wolf Protects a Rapidly Expanding Financial Services Company

Advance Financial, a family-owned financial services firm operating more than 80 branch locations and 24x7 online loan services, faced limited visibility across on‑premises and cloud environments, an overwhelmed IT team unable to triage hundreds of millions of alerts, and time‑consuming regulatory reporting (PCI‑DSS, GLBA). To address these challenges it engaged Arctic Wolf for a SOC‑as‑a‑service offering—including its cloud SIEM and Concierge Security Team—to centralize monitoring and improve compliance reporting.

Arctic Wolf deployed inline, redundant devices and cloud monitoring to ingest and analyze over 400 million log records, run continuous vulnerability scans, track administrative privilege use, and monitor configuration changes and audit logs. The engagement delivered 360‑degree visibility, escalated only a handful of true incidents per week, provided customizable weekly and monthly executive reports, and achieved more than 3X cost savings versus building an internal SOC with other SIEM products.

Advance Financial

Patrick Swint

IT Director