OverviewA leading financial services organization with multiple independent sub-businesses faced a critical challenge: how to maintain consistent security protocols and compliance tracking while implementing AI workflows across their distributed operations. Each branch had developed its own data security processes, creating gaps in protection, disparate compliance tracking, and making enterprise-wide compliance nearly impossible to manage effectively.The parent company engaged BCyber, a specialized cybersecurity and compliance consulting firm, to implement a unified solution. By deploying the GRACE platform with SpinOne’s advanced data protection capabilities, they transformed a fragmented security landscape wrought with spreadsheets into a cohesive, AI-ready infrastructure that streamlines compliance while closing critical data protection gaps.The Challenges: Data Security and AI Adoption Meet Compliance RealityData Integrity CrisisExponential AI-Driven Storage GrowthCompliance Gaps Without RemediationManual Security ManagementData Integrity Crisis: AI models depend entirely on consistent, secure data sourcesFinancial institutions investing in AI workflows face an uncomfortable truth: their models are only as reliable as the data feeding them. When critical training data disappears due to accidental deletion, ransomware attacks, or incorrect prompting, entire AI investments can become worthless in an instant. This organization needed to ensure their data remained secure, confidential, and continuously available to maintain AI model effectiveness.Exponential Storage Growth: Traditional backup strategies fail under AI demandsAI workflows create data at unprecedented rates, making storage provisioning nearly impossible to predict. The organization’s branches were experiencing exponential storage growth, but reaching capacity limits posed serious business risks to their AI models. They needed a solution that could scale automatically without requiring constant manual intervention or risking operational disruption.Compliance Gaps Without Remediation: Risk assessments lose value without rapid responseWhile the organization conducted regular risk assessments and compliance mapping, none were conducted by the same standards, yielding varying results. BCyber’s expertise highlighted a key gap nearly every branch struggled with: timely remediation. “If you don’t act on risk assessment findings right away, you’re leaving yourself open to serious risks and regulatory scrutiny for an extended period of time – especially in heavily regulated industries like financial services. Once you identify the gaps, you need to quickly improve your security posture,” said Graham Chee, Co-founder and Managing Director at BCyber.Manual Security Management: Inconsistent Remediation at BestSecurity alerts flooded teams, some of which were fielded by internal IT teams, while others were handled by Managed Services Providers (MSPs). What was consistent was that in every case, updating SaaS configurations was a manual process that took weeks to investigate and then implement. They needed consistent, automated response capabilities with clear documentation trails for future assessments and audits, allowing IT management teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than reactive firefighting.The Solution: Integrated Intelligence Through BCyber’s GRACE Platform and SpinOneRisk-Based Security Posture ManagementIntelligent Compliance AutomationExpert-Driven Risk MitigationAI-Automated Data ProtectionPredictable Planning and ProvisioningRisk-Based Security Posture Management: Continuous improvement replaces checkbox complianceSpinOne’s automated detection capabilities identify SaaS security posture risks in real-time, including monitoring third-party applications and browser extensions that could compromise sensitive financial data. Custom policies can be implemented using out-of-the-box security settings aligned to compliance frameworks, then configured and customized for continuous improvement.GRACE’s queryable interface dramatically speeds up remediation definition, helping security teams quickly identify and implement needed improvements to close gaps or enhance SaaS security policies based on real-time alerts.Intelligent Compliance Automation: GRACE platform accelerates audit readinessBCyber’s GRACE platform revolutionized the organization’s compliance approach by quickly mapping complex requirements across multiple frameworks. The system automatically integrates SpinOne’s security reports as compensating controls, dramatically reducing audit preparation time while ensuring comprehensive coverage.Expert-Driven Risk Mitigation: Moving beyond compliance to strategic securityBCyber’s risk-based security and compliance expertise focuses the organization on mitigating actual threats rather than simply checking regulatory boxes. This approach creates remediation workflows that support continuous improvement of their security posture while maintaining the flexibility needed for AI innovation.The combined solution provides automated documentation of security controls and remediation steps, creating clear audit trails that satisfy regulators while enabling rapid response to emerging threats.Automated AI Data Protection: SpinOne eliminates throttling and ensures continuous availabilitySpinOne’s advanced backup capabilities automatically protect all data used for AI and LLM models without throttling issues. This ensures that training data, model outputs, and operational datasets remain consistently available, eliminating the risk of AI model degradation due to data loss.The platform provides comprehensive ransomware protection through full-service automated detection and response capabilities, significantly reducing the workload on distributed security teams while maintaining the data integrity that AI models require to function effectively.Predictable Planning & Provisioning: GRACE anticipates storage needsThe platform’s intelligent automation creates accurate storage provisioning projections that financial leaders can trust for budgeting and capacity planning, eliminating the guesswork that previously plagued their infrastructure investments.Results: Transforming Financial Services Through Intelligent SecurityThe integration of BCyber’s GRACE platform with SpinOne’s advanced data protection created a unified security ecosystem that supports AI innovation while maintaining regulatory compliance. The organization now operates with consistent security protocols across all branches, automated threat response capabilities, and predictable storage provisioning that scales with their AI initiatives.Most importantly, they’ve moved from reactive compliance management to proactive risk mitigation, positioning themselves to leverage AI technologies safely while maintaining the trust and regulatory standing essential to financial services operations.Key Outcomes:Unified security protocols across all branchesAutomated data protection for AI workflowsStreamlined compliance reporting and audit preparationProactive threat detection and automated responsePredictable infrastructure scaling for AI initiativesEnhanced security posture through continuous improvement workflowsBetter TogetherThe right combination of expert cybersecurity and compliance consulting and advanced technology platforms can turn distributed security challenges into competitive advantages, enabling financial institutions to embrace AI innovation while maintaining the highest standards of data protection and regulatory compliance.Download Case Study Share this article Share this post on Linkedin Share this post on X Share this post on Facebook Share this post on Reddit Was this helpful? 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