Global Financial Services Company achieves portfolio-wide security standards
75% reduction in change-order costs through standardized security architecture
Schedule a CallChallenge
Site-by-site security decisions with no portfolio standard
Solution
Versioned security standards plus vendor consolidation
Outcome
75% fewer change-order costs and $350K capex avoided
Result
75%
Reduction in change-order costs through standardized security architecture
Company
Global Financial Services Company
Industry
Financial Services
Services
Security Advisory
Summary
Global Financial Services Company was expanding into new sites faster than its security program could keep pace with. Each location made its own vendor and architecture decisions, with no one accountable for a consistent standard across the portfolio.
The Challenge
Security decisions were made vendor by vendor, site by site, with no one owning the standard across the portfolio — driving change orders and inconsistent access control postures at each new location.
What We Did
- Wrote versioned security standards governing every new site globally, so new locations start from an approved architecture instead of a blank page.
- Led a vendor consolidation effort to bring the portfolio onto a smaller, better-integrated set of systems.
- Built the standard to be enforced at procurement, not discovered during commissioning.
The Outcome
The firm reduced change-order costs by 75% ($225K saved) and avoided $350K in capex through vendor consolidation. Every new site now opens against the same versioned security standard instead of a one-off vendor decision.