Contain first
Stopped the active risk before beginning analysis.
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Financial Services · Rainbow Secure MFA + Incident Response & Identity Defense
150 Attacks a Week—None Reach the Borrower
A mortgage lender moved from emergency response to continuous credential defense around highly sensitive borrower information.
~150
credential attacks blocked each week
~7,800
attempts absorbed annually
Closed
original entry path after root-cause analysis
THE CHALLENGE
Why a stronger solution was needed
After a security incident, leadership, counsel, regulators and customers needed defensible answers: what entered, what it touched and whether it remained. The organization also needed to close the original route and absorb continuing credential attacks without adding headcount.
RAINBOW SECURE APPROACH
How the engagement was structured
Rainbow Secure contained the active risk, reconstructed the timeline from audit and system logs, determined scope, removed persistence, reset trust, hardened authentication and moved the lender to continuous identity monitoring.
From problem to governed access
Investigate the evidence
Reconstructed the timeline from audit and system logs.
Determine true scope
Confirmed what data and systems were and were not reached.
Eradicate and recover
Removed persistence, reset trust and restored normal operations.
Harden the entry path
Strengthened authentication and closed the route in.
Move to continuous defense
Monitored identity activity and stopped attacks before they reached a person.
What was used, where and why
Rainbow Secure capability
Where it was used
How it helped
Rainbow Secure MFA
User and administrator sign-in
Verified the person before access was granted, making valid credentials alone insufficient.
Incident response and forensics
Affected systems, accounts and logs
Established the root cause, timeline and evidence-based scope.
Identity hardening
Employee and business-system login
Closed the original entry path and made a stolen credential insufficient.
Continuous identity monitoring
Ongoing authentication activity
Blocked credential stuffing, password spraying and replay attempts before they reached a user.
The business impact behind the technology
Borrower identity data
Social Security numbers and dates of birth can enable complete identity takeover.
Financial records
Bank statements and account numbers create direct theft and fraud exposure.
Credit and property data
Credit history, property and title details can support social engineering and wire fraud.
Risk connected to control
Threat or weakness
Control that addressed it
Credential stuffing
Blocked at authentication—approximately 150 attempts each week
Password spraying
Blocked at the authentication layer
Phishing-harvested passwords
A stolen credential alone cannot complete login
Business email compromise
Email and identity access hardened
Persistence after the incident
Removed through eradication and trust reset
Long undetected dwell time
Reduced through continuous identity monitoring
BUSINESS OUTCOME
What changed
Approximately 150 credential attacks were blocked each week—about 7,800 annually. The original entry path was closed, the true scope was established from evidence, persistence was removed and documented findings were prepared for regulatory and client inquiry.
Verified customer-engagement result from the supplied Mortgage Lender case study.Start with one customer problem and build the right identity-security path.
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