How we helped
Strategic Technology worked with the banking team to construct an IT strategy and implementation plan designed to increase cyber resiliency, increase IT efficiency, and decrease overall IT expense. This included a custom mix of IT solutions to meet their needs and provide for future growth.
Strategic Technology created a full IT Strategic and Implementation plan to better align the IT function with the bank’s needs. They were able to execute on the plan to bring the bank into a more solid footing for achieving IT and banking goals, as well as satisfy regulatory and compliance requirements for our information technology.
- Virtual CIO
- Managed IT
- Backup & Disaster Recovery
- Enterprise Detection & Response
- Cloud Consolidation
Measureable Results
The community bank has been delighted in their results. Within the first year they were able to resolve an immediate need from regulators to strengthen cyber security and resiliency while reducing in-house IT staff by 50%.
“For the first time in a long time we were able to have some strategic guidance with our information technology allowing us to come out from under the regulatory scrutiny and concentrate on growth.” Terrie Said.
Terrie noted that working with a firm that can provide not only the strategic leadership, but also fully implement the IT plan has allowed her to concentrate on other areas.
“Being a small community bank, we didn’t have the internal resources to create the necessary strategy and implement the key pieces. With the guidance of Adam as our virtual CIO and the backing of his entire team we have been able to construct a strategy and fully implement in record time.”
Managed IT
The community bank also utilized Strategic Technology to fully manage their IT infrastructure for help desk, systems monitoring, patch management, and Enterprise Detection and Response. This allowed for increased visibility and compliance while also reducing the reliance on internal staff and resources.
“Our IT department struggled in maintaining systems and keeping systems up to date and in full compliance. Leveraging the Network and Security Operations team at Strategic Technoly we are able to patch and secure systems almost instantly, greatly reducing our risk.” Terrie Said.
Strategic technology implemented a full Enterprise Detection and Response system and process to secure the environment from ransomware as well as prevent accidental data loss.
“Cyber security is one of the single-most important items for a bank and it was one area that we were struggling. Strategic Technology constructed an implementation plan to deploy SentinelOne which drastically reduced our cyber-risk and helped us reduce our cyber-security insurance in the process.”
- 24×7 Systems Monitoring
- Real-Time patch management
- Full Help Desk Support
- SentinelOne EDR Deployment
- Security Awareness Training
- Metrics and Reporting to the Board