Case Study: Global Financial Institution achieves centralized control of trusted SSH access with SSH.COM

A Global Financial Institution Regaining Control of Trusted Access

Global Financial Institution faced a critical security and compliance challenge after an internal audit found developers self‑provisioning SSH key access across production systems, bypassing privileged access controls. The bank’s heterogeneous environment — up to 35,000 managed hosts across Unix and Linux platforms, with both agent and agentless setups — required a low‑risk, non‑disruptive solution. They engaged SSH.COM and evaluated its Universal SSH Key Manager® and accompanying Secure Shell HealthCheck services to restore visibility and control.

SSH.COM implemented Universal SSH Key Manager along with a professional HealthCheck engagement to discover and inventory keys, map trust relationships, monitor usage, remediate unauthorized or stale keys, and centrally manage SSH lifecycles across the estate. The deployment enabled centralized enforcement, automated key removal and alerts, integration with ticketing, and remediation of unmanaged access, allowing the Global Financial Institution to regain control of trusted access across its infrastructure and restore audit readiness across up to 35,000 hosts.