Case Study: Leading Auto Finance Company achieves improved risk posture and identity-risk coverage with Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense

Auto Finance Company Expands Vulnerability Program to Encompass Identity Risks With Proofpoint

This global auto finance company—serving consumers and dealers across North America, South America and Asia with roughly 9,000 employees and about $60 billion in assets—faced a growing identity risk problem. A complex, largely on-premises IT estate with many legacy applications left gaps their Privileged Access Management solution couldn’t cover, leaving service and administrative accounts unvaulted and creating poor visibility into privileged identity risks that weren’t being captured by their vulnerability program.

They deployed Proofpoint Identity Threat Defense (including Spotlight), integrating with Active Directory and performing regular endpoint scans whose findings are pulled via API into their vulnerability workflow and tracked with SLAs. The solution immediately surfaced substantial identity issues, improved their overall risk posture, enabled fast remediation of several critical items each week, and expanded their vulnerability program to address identity—the organization’s top attack vector.