Case Study: Large Agricultural Lending Cooperative achieves enhanced internal and external cybersecurity posture with SecurityScorecard

Large Agricultural Lending Cooperative Enhances Internal & External Cybersecurity Posture Utilizing SecurityScorecard

Large Agricultural Lending Cooperative, one of the largest U.S. agricultural lending cooperatives with over 1,000 employees and 100,000 customers, faced growing regulatory and operational pressure to monitor third‑party cybersecurity risk per Farm Credit Administration and FFIEC guidance. The cooperative’s manual, point‑in‑time vendor questionnaires proved resource‑intensive, inaccurate, and slow—burying three security engineers in administrative work and leaving the organization without continuous visibility into vendor security posture.

By adopting the SecurityScorecard platform, the cooperative implemented continuous, real‑time monitoring, portfolio organization, automated notifications, and online remediation workflows for vendors. SecurityScorecard eliminated paper assessments, freed security resources for higher‑value work, sped vendor onboarding and approvals, enabled regular reporting to governance and regulators, and allowed the CISO to track and remediate vendor risk over time—dramatically improving team capacity and visibility across the vendor ecosystem.