Case Study: Global Financial Institution achieves real-time user behavior analytics and faster threat investigations with ExtraHop

ExtraHop Helps Leading Financial Institution Improve Banking Security with Real-Time User Behavior Analytics

A global financial institution needed to add real-time user behavior analytics to its authentication process to improve security and compliance, but capturing thousands of logins per minute across dozens of banking applications and streaming that data into a SIEM risked degrading end-user experience and creating ingest bottlenecks.

The security team leveraged ExtraHop’s passive, out-of-band analytics—already used by the network team—for rapid, non-disruptive visibility. Within hours ExtraHop was streaming selective, transaction-level metrics (for example, five failed logins in five minutes) into the SIEM, reducing index volume and ingest costs, improving alert speed and accuracy, and enabling investigators to go from alert to packet data in three clicks.