Case Study: AAVAS Financiers Limited boosts security operations and saves 40 man‑hours/week with Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR)

AAVAS Boosts Its Security Operations Program with Sophos Managed Threat Response

AAVAS Financiers Limited, a housing finance company serving underserved markets across India, faced a stretched IT team and limited capacity for proactive threat hunting. Already using Sophos solutions such as XG Firewall, XDR and Sophos Email, AAVAS sought a human-led security layer to investigate suspicious events, perform continuous threat hunting, and strengthen its security posture without adding headcount.

Sophos deployed its Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR), built on Intercept X with EDR and integrated XDR telemetry, to operate as an outsourced, 24/7 extension of AAVAS’s IT team. Sophos MTR provided real-time monitoring, proactive posture improvements and targeted threat mitigation, saving at least 40 man-hours per week, avoiding additional hires, prompting infrastructure improvements on three occasions and identifying performance lags twice, while helping AAVAS meet compliance and service-level targets.

Aavas Financiers Ltd

Yogesh Kumar Bansal

Deputy Vice President IT