Case Study: a leading international bank secures open shares and strengthens compliance with STEALTHbits StealthAUDIT

Leading International Bank - Customer Case Study

a leading international bank, facing strict regulatory demands to separate its commercial and investment banking divisions, discovered a significant vulnerability. Proprietary customer information was mistakenly stored on open-access SharePoint shares, potentially allowing analysts in one division to access confidential data from the other. This breach of the required "Chinese Wall" put the bank at serious regulatory risk. To address this, the bank engaged STEALTHbits and utilized their StealthAUDIT product to identify and remediate the issue.

STEALTHbits' Professional Services team deployed StealthAUDIT to perform an in-depth analysis of the open shares. They identified the root cause of the permissions issue, determined share ownership, and pinpointed which users had access. A key innovation was the development of proxy scanning to efficiently manage the bank's global infrastructure, a feature that became a standard part of the StealthAUDIT offering. The solution provided the bank with the data and expert workflow guidance needed to successfully fix the security problem and ensure compliance, rather than just identifying it.