Case Study: Large Financial Processing Company achieves centralized ID administration and logging across its Unix/Linux server environment with Fortra BoKS ServerControl

Large Financial Processing Company Centralizes ID Administration and Logging Across Unix/Linux Server Environment

A large financial processing company that grew rapidly through a merger expanded from hundreds to thousands of Unix/Linux servers and found thousands of systems were unmanaged, forcing administrators to provision access one-by-one. High employee turnover, heavy access‑request backlogs, separation-of‑duties issues, lack of centralized logging and controls, and stringent regulatory requirements made compliance, auditing, and secure administration costly and error-prone.

By deploying HelpSystems BoKS ServerControl the company centralized identity administration and logging across its heterogeneous server estate, introduced role‑based access (BoKS user classes), pluggable authentication and file‑integrity monitoring, and removed redundant agents. The solution enforced granular session and root controls, blocked lateral access during penetration testing, generated audit trails and metrics for reporting, simplified compliance, sped provisioning, and reduced staffing and payroll costs.