Sentinel Bank passed SOC 2 on the first try and cut threat response from 4 hours to 8 minutes
A regional bank's security team was drowning in 12,000 alerts a day and dreading their SOC 2 audit. An AI security posture platform with SOAR automation collapsed response times, cut false positives by 78%, and turned a 6-month audit prep into a continuous, audit-ready state.
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Where they started
Sentinel Bank's 4-person security operations team was getting 12,000 alerts a day from a stack of disconnected tools. Real threats were getting missed in the noise — a phishing-driven ACH fraud attempt had slipped through for 9 hours before anyone caught it, costing $1.4M. SOC 2 Type II audit prep was a 6-month project that pulled the whole team off detection work. The CISO was hiring a 5th analyst just to keep up with alert triage.
What we built
We deployed our Aegis AI security posture platform with AI-driven alert prioritization, automated SOAR playbooks that quarantine compromised endpoints and revoke sessions in seconds, and a continuous compliance module that maps every control to SOC 2 criteria in real time. The platform ingested Sentinel's existing tool outputs so there was no rip-and-replace. Within the first week, the AI had suppressed 78% of false positives and surfaced 3 active threats the team had missed.
Target outcomes
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We stopped hiring our 5th analyst because we didn't need one anymore. The platform does the triage, the playbooks do the response, and my team finally has time to hunt instead of just react. Passing SOC 2 on the first try was the proof that everything had changed.
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