Case Study: a large global investment firm reduces API fraud response time from 3 hours to 30 seconds with Cequence Security

Large Global Investment Firm cuts threat detection time from 3 hours to 30 seconds with Cequence Security

a large global investment firm faced significant challenges from rolling account takeover (ATO) attacks targeting its API application, which provided access for over 30 million retail investors. Their existing post-forensic tool required fraud analysts to spend hours manually sifting through data, leaving them in a reactive security mode and eroding customer confidence. The firm selected Cequence Security to implement a solution for faster fraud detection.

Cequence deployed its API Spartan, a component of its Unified API Protection (UAP) platform, in front of the firm's critical API application. The implementation eliminated hours of daily manual analysis and provided powerful, customizable security policies. This enabled the fraud team to reduce threat detection response time from 3 hours to just 30 seconds, allowing them to proactively block fraudulent activity and secure customer accounts.