Case Study: European Financial Services Provider achieves measurable security performance improvements and enhanced cyber risk visibility with BitSight

European Financial Services Provider Leverages BitSight to Improve Security Performance Across Global Subsidiary Network

European Financial Services Provider, an insurance and investment management company with more than 14,000 employees operating across a global, federated subsidiary network, struggled to understand its external security posture and consistently report security performance over time. To gain an external perspective and a consistent framework for its second line of defence, the European Financial Services Provider engaged BitSight and adopted BitSight for Security Performance Management.

BitSight delivered continuous Security Performance Management data across multiple risk vectors (compromised systems, diligence controls like SPF/DKIM/SSL, user behavior, etc.) and visualized trends over time, exposing risks not detected by first‑line tools. By using BitSight, the European Financial Services Provider proved measurable impact of its cyber program, improved remediation and root‑cause analysis, rolled the approach out across subsidiaries, raised its Security Rating, and enabled data‑driven, risk‑based discussions with security and executive management — with plans to extend BitSight to M&A and third‑party monitoring.