Case Study: Financial Company achieves rapid detection of APTs and zero‑day attacks with Carahsoft and Fidelis Deception

Financial Company - Customer Case Study

Financial Company, a Chicago‑headquartered global provider of investment research with operations in over 20 countries, faced rising cyber risk and needed real‑time detection and correlated threat intelligence to protect its data and customer records. To meet this challenge, Financial Company engaged Carahsoft to deploy the Fidelis Deception solution, a deception‑based platform designed to detect APTs and zero‑day attacks by treating intruders as already inside the network.

Carahsoft implemented Fidelis Deception’s decoys, breadcrumbs and broad traffic visibility (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL and more), feeding detailed telemetry into dashboards and existing SIEM/SOC workflows. The deployment enabled real‑time detection of advanced persistent threats and zero‑day attacks, condensed alerts into actionable threat summaries for faster investigation and response, and improved overall visibility and compliance—giving the security team timely, actionable intelligence to protect assets and reduce time-to-detection.