A fintech handling regulated data
We re-architected a permissive internal platform into a zero-trust system — every request authenticated, authorized, and audited, with least-privilege access by default.
The problem
A single stolen credential could reach far more than it should — broad implicit trust, thin audit trails, and access rules nobody could fully explain or prove to an auditor.
Our approach
- 01
We replaced implicit trust with explicit policy: every request proves its identity and is granted only the access it needs.
- 02
We scoped each service to least privilege and made every access decision auditable, so who-can-do-what is always answerable.
- 03
We wired security scanning and policy checks into CI, so regressions are caught before they ship, not after.
The outcome
A platform where one compromised credential no longer opens the whole system — a tighter blast radius, clean audit trails, and access the team can actually reason about.
Impact (figures pending confirmation)
- Access blast radius
- −92% [confirm]
- Critical findings at audit
- 0 [confirm]
- Mean time to revoke access
- −85% [confirm]
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