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Finance • 40 branches • 1,800 devices
Proactive risk management at banking scale
Priya Nair, CIONorthpeak Financial The challenge
As a regional bank, Northpeak faced the worst of both worlds: nation-state-grade phishing and ransomware crews, plus examiners demanding proof of control for every finding. Their SOC drowned in 3,000 weekly alerts, and genuine incidents hid in the noise for an average of nine days. “We were compliant on paper and exposed in practice,” says Nair.
97%
alert noise eliminated by auto-triage
9 days → 14 min
mean time to resolve incidents
100%
examiner findings closed on first pass
The approach
Northpeak connected all 40 branches plus two data centers in phases, keeping existing tools during a 30-day overlap. Vernox auto-triage absorbed the alert flood immediately; analysts went from 3,000 weekly alerts to roughly 90 human-review cases — each with a verdict recommendation attached.
- Behavioral baselines per branch, per role, per teller terminal
- SWIFT-adjacent systems on isolated zero-trust segments
- Examiner-ready evidence exported straight from the console
“Moving to Vernox changed how we think about cybersecurity. We manage risk proactively now, and our customer data stays protected around the clock — the examiners noticed too.”