Case Study: BOB Financial achieves secure, scalable growth and RBI compliance with CrowdStrike Falcon

BOB Financial Digitally Transformed Security to Support Growth Leveraging Cloud Infrastructure

BOB Financial Solutions Limited, a Mumbai-based credit card issuer and 100% subsidiary of Bank of Baroda with 47 branches, was preparing for domestic and international growth with 900+ users across seven locations. The company faced strict RBI regulatory requirements, rising nation‑state and zero‑day threats, limited visibility and centralized control, and the shortcomings of signature‑based legacy antivirus—challenges made more acute by a small IT team and a shift to remote work.

BOB Financial deployed the cloud‑native CrowdStrike Falcon platform (Falcon Prevent NGAV, Falcon Insight EDR and device control), piloting 110 endpoints in five minutes and rolling out to 900 endpoints to gain centralized visibility and compliance assurances (no personal or financial data stored outside India). The lightweight, signature‑less solution maintained protection through the COVID‑19 lockdown, improved detection and prevention of advanced threats, simplified management, reduced IT overhead, boosted endpoint performance, and positioned the company to scale to 1,500 endpoints and extend mobile protection.

BOB Financial

Balram Choudhary

Vice President, Head (IT&ISO)