Case Study: an S&P financial leader boosts detection visibility from 33% to 100% with Picus Security

S&P Financial Leader boosts detection visibility from 33% to 100% with Picus Security

The customer, S&P Financial Leader, a global data and analytics company, faced a critical security gap. Their challenge was inconsistent firewall configurations that caused log truncation, creating detection blind spots across their global regions. This meant that while attacks appeared to be blocked, malicious activity could go completely undetected by their SIEM. Picus Security's Security Control Validation (SCV) was used to uncover this vulnerability.

Picus Security identified the root cause: several firewall appliances were set to truncate logs upon reaching a size limit, which removed the metadata needed for detection. The Picus solution enabled the customer to pinpoint the misconfigured appliances and standardize their log capture settings. This immediate remediation increased their detection visibility from 33% to 100% for the affected attacks, eliminating a major global blind spot before the solution was fully operational.