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OSMR case studies

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1

Quarter-Close Privileged Access Exception

At a mid-sized payments processor, quarter-end close begins in four days and a change freeze is in effect for the 12 systems in SOX scope. The privileged-access management (PAM) tool failed to provision a standing domain-admin role for a database administrator who must run reconciliation scripts on the payment ledger.

549 words, about 3 min
2

Processor Breach Notification Delay

A regional insurer uses a payment processor to handle premium refunds for 180,000 policyholders. The processor detects anomalous access to a refund database on a Friday and notifies the insurer the following Tuesday-96 hours later-although the contract requires notification within 24 hours of confirmed compromise.

559 words, about 3 min
3

Ransomware on an End-of-Life ERP Segment

A food manufacturer runs three plants on a single ERP instance that reached end-of-life 18 months ago. At 02:10 on a Sunday, the SOC sees two ERP application servers encrypting files and a lateral movement alert from a file server holding production recipes.

544 words, about 3 min
4

Rescoring a Cloud CRM Risk Before Go-Live

A retail bank is migrating its customer relationship management (CRM) system to a multi-tenant SaaS provider. The project risk register entry, owned by the CRM program director, scores the risk as likelihood 2, impact 4 = 8, below the board's appetite threshold of 12.

545 words, about 3 min
5

Departing Engineer Data Download

A software company's DLP tool alerts at 02:14 that a senior backend engineer downloaded 3.2 GB from the source-code repository to a personal cloud storage domain. The engineer resigned nine days ago and is scheduled to leave in five business days.

537 words, about 3 min