IDB Bank Fortifies AWS environment with Qualys TotalCloud
IDB Bank, a prominent financial institution, operates multiple workloads and corporate websites hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With a focus on ensuring continuous security and compliance in the cloud, IDB Bank sought a unified, efficient solution to manage vulnerabilities, maintain asset inventory, and adhere to financial regulatory mandates.
INDUSTRY:
REGION:
North America
AWS SERVICES USED:
Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon VPC Use Case: Cloud Security, Vulnerability Management, Compliance
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Beatrice Sirchis, First Vice President Head of Application Security at IDB Bank, faced numerous challenges to gain and maintain full visibility over AWS asset inventories, including EC2 instances and S3 buckets. The requirement was to manage security posture effectively, to meet strict compliance mandates while reducing operational complexity and risk exposure. Reporting security posture to multiple internal stakeholders efficiently was also a high priority.
Qualys’ cloud-native TotalCloud platform integrated natively with AWS, providing agentless discovery and continuous assessment of cloud assets. This solution allowed IDB Bank to:
Business Outcomes include:
Business Outcomes include:
With the Qualys + AWS partnership, IDB Bank realized major improvements in security, operational efficiency, and compliance management. The integrated platform delivered measurable KPIs:
Complete visibility of all assets with continuous discovery, providing IDB Bank the ability to manage everything on-premises, in the cloud, and across external internet-facing assets.
Proactive management of tech debt (EoL/EoS) with effective dashboarding and planning for software, hardware, and OS updates/mitigation to reduce risk for critical assets.
Continuous risk assessment of unauthorized software (such as file sharing or packet inspection) and missing security agents.
CMDB sync to add previously missing cloud assets to IT’s source of truth and, more importantly, leverage business context to automatically assign remediation tickets to the appropriate teams (MTTR slashed from 30 days to 1–2 days).
Reporting through a unified dashboard with defined risk thresholds and automated alerts, allowing managers to easily prioritize issues.
“Not only can we see every asset on-prem and in the cloud, but we also know the overall risk. From one view, we see overall risk, identify critical vulnerabilities and EoL/EoS, and determine the extent to which they affect various assets throughout the entire attack surface. This comprehensive asset data allows us to automatically allocate tasks to the relevant teams, thereby reducing remediation time by up to a month.”
BEATRICE SIRCHIS
First Vice President, IDB BANK
Why Qualys & AWS?
The IDB Bank-Qualys partnership leverages AWS’s robust cloud infrastructure and Qualys’s expertise in cloud security management. By using Qualys TotalCloud via AWS Marketplace, customers benefit from:
Success Story
Summary
IDB Bank, a prominent financial institution, operates multiple workloads and corporate websites hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With a focus on ensuring continuous security and compliance in the cloud, IDB Bank sought a unified, efficient solution to manage vulnerabilities, maintain asset inventory, and adhere to financial regulatory mandates.
Products
Qualys TotalCloud (CNAPP)
100%
visibility into critical AWS vulnerabilities
80%
reduction in report generation and sharing time
15X
faster remediation — MTTR from 30 days to 1–2
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Accelerated audit preparation with real-time compliance insight
Takeaways
Not only can we see every asset on-prem and in the cloud, but we also know the overall risk. From one view, we see overall risk, identify critical vulnerabilities and EoL/EoS, and determine the extent to which they affect various assets throughout the entire attack surface. This comprehensive asset data allows us to automatically allocate tasks to the relevant teams, thereby reducing remediation time by up to a month.”
Business Outcomes
Technical Outcomes
With the Qualys + AWS partnership, IDB Bank realized major improvements in security, operational efficiency, and compliance management. The integrated platform delivered measurable KPIs:
Reporting through a unified dashboard with defined risk thresholds and automated alerts, allowing managers to easily prioritize issues.
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