Case Study: World’s Leading Financial Services Company achieves automated IT control testing and real-time compliance insights with MetricStream

Financial Services Major Automates IT Control Assessments for Faster, Better Insights on Compliance

A global financial services major faced a growing IT compliance burden: millions of assets, thousands of processes and 1,000+ controls across multiple regulatory frameworks had to be tested regularly. Manual, script-based testing and siloed risk reporting were resource‑intensive, slow, and made it difficult to calculate inherent and residual risk or deliver a real‑time view of IT compliance to executives—forcing the firm to look for an automated, scalable solution that fit into its DevOps workflows.

The company implemented MetricStream’s IT and Cyber Compliance Management, integrating it with existing automation (e.g., Selenium) via APIs/SFTP to schedule and run automated control tests, centralize evidence, and feed results into test plans and dashboards. The solution delivered centralized reporting and configurable executive views, enabling faster decision‑making, improved compliance maturity and control effectiveness, reduced compliance costs, and real‑time visibility into IT and cyber compliance risks.