A mid-sized financial services provider faced mounting pressure to achieve SOC 2 Type II certification to retain enterprise clients. Their hybrid environment (on-premise AD, Azure AD, AWS IAM) created identity sprawl that manual audits couldn't efficiently assess.
- 3-week audit prep consuming security team capacity
- Point-in-time snapshots missing real-time drift
- Fragmented visibility across 3 identity systems
- High consultant costs (£240k annually)
- Compliance gaps discovered during audit causing delays