Case Study: World's Largest Bank restores compliance and reduces risk with SSH.COM's Universal SSH Key Manager

Global Bank Restores Compliance and Reduces Risk with Universal SSH Key Manager

World’s Largest Bank faced a major compliance and security crisis after an external audit found unmanaged OpenSSH keys driving thousands of mission‑critical transactions and bypassing centralized authentication. Auditors warned this exposed the bank to MAS and SOX violations and existential risk if a single privileged key was compromised. The bank engaged SSH.COM and its Universal SSH Key Manager to gain the expertise and tooling needed to inventory and control its SSH environment.

SSH.COM used key discovery, monitoring and professional services to map usage, revealing over 1.5 million SSH user keys (including more than 150,000 granting root access). By removing unneeded keys, redeploying keys without outages, and centralizing policy, lifecycle and monitoring with Universal SSH Key Manager, SSH.COM helped the bank restore compliance, dramatically reduce privileged‑access risk, and bring previously invisible SSH activity under administrative control.