A European Bank Mitigates Third-Party Admin Risks with Syteca

About

Pending issue

Secure third-party admin access to databases and monitor admin activity with sensitive data.

The customer

European Bank

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Customer’s requests

• Limit access of third-party administrators to the bank’s IT infrastructure
• Monitor administrators’ actions with sensitive assets
• Mitigate data security risks by responding to suspicious activity
• Conduct audits to analyze third-party activity

With Syteca’s support team being available 24/7, deployment of and further work with the platform went smoothly and without any complications.”

The challenge

A European bank needed third-party service providers to administer some of their databases. As a large organization operating in the global market, the bank wanted to protect sensitive financial data, end customers’ personal information, and other critical IT assets from unauthorized access.

The bank’s security department decided to implement an advanced security system for administrator access control. Additionally, they needed all user sessions of third-party providers to be monitored for security compliance and logged to enable post-audit activities.

Bank representatives needed effective third-party risk monitoring software and decided to go with Syteca. To reduce the attack surface, Syteca’s team suggested solving the customer’s problem by installing a bastion host running the Syteca Client application.

The result

Deploying Syteca enabled our customer to: