Case Study: UK Retail Banking Company achieves rapid, comprehensive sandbox sensitive-data discovery with PKWARE PK Discovery

UK Retail Banking Company - Customer Case Study

UK Retail Banking Company, one of the UK’s Big Four clearing banks serving more than 16 million customers, discovered during a pen test that its third‑party developer sandbox contained large amounts of unprotected personal and financial data. The bank needed a fast, accurate way to scan all sensitive data across 250 sandbox connections and, after consulting IBM/Kyndryl, was referred to PKWARE to address the problem using PK Discovery from the PK Protect suite.

PKWARE implemented PK Discovery to scan all 250 connections, enabling immediate, accurate discovery of sensitive data across the sandbox and removing the need for multiple point solutions. The deployment gave the UK Retail Banking Company clarity on current and future support, immediate scanning capability, easy scalability to databases without additional investment, and a pathway to remediate findings (masking, redaction, encryption) within the PK Protect suite—significantly reducing exposure risk and simplifying data-security management.