Overview
One of India's leading NBFCs (over 10 million customers and an AUM above USD 11 billion) needed CIS hardening across its 700+ servers as a critical priority to retain its RBI license. The customer wanted the hardening process automated to protect its infrastructure quickly and efficiently.
The challenge
- Complex estate — 700+ servers across multiple OS types and flavors, running critical applications.
- Business continuity — downtime during hardening had to be minimized.
- Risk mitigation — protection against any data loss through the process.
The solution
The customer adopted an Ansible automation solution proposed by CitiusCloud:
- Comprehensive hardening — all 700+ servers addressed across OS types and flavors.
- Recovery-planned execution — a quick, smooth rollback path if hardening failed on any server.
- Customized controls — custom hardening points accounted for per server class.
- Constrained windows respected — hardening planned and executed after business hours.
The results
- RBI compliance requirements met — license safeguarded.
- Compliance automation delivered in record time — without business disruption.
- A repeatable, auditable hardening capability — the customer now owns.