Case Study: Kovack Securities strengthens compliance and streamlines IT with CrowdStrike Falcon for IT

Kovack Securities cuts IT costs by 27% with CrowdStrike

Kovack Securities, a financial services firm, faced challenges in ensuring consistent compliance and IT management across its network of 500 independent financial advisors, each with their own diverse systems and practices. As its first CISO, Roberto Galdamez needed a solution to unify visibility without disrupting advisor operations, turning to CrowdStrike's Falcon for IT platform.

The implementation of CrowdStrike's solution provided immediate, unified visibility and control through a single console. This allowed Kovack to streamline compliance checks and IT support, resulting in a projected 69% reduction in compliance verification effort and 83% fewer audit findings. IT troubleshooting saw an 81% improvement in mean-time-to-resolve, ticket volume dropped by about 75%, and overall IT costs were reduced by 27% per user while strengthening the firm's security reputation.