Unlocking Zero Trust

How Styra Can Save Your Bank Millions While Strengthening Security

In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, security is no longer a choice—it's a necessity. For global banks, the stakes have never been higher. With increasing regulatory demands and ever-more sophisticated cyberattacks, implementing a Zero Trust architecture is essential to safeguarding your critical infrastructure and customer data.

But here’s the challenge: How do you implement Zero Trust without disrupting operations or adding unnecessary complexity?

This is where Styra steps in.

Why Zero Trust Needs to Be Your Top Priority

As a financial executive, you understand the risks better than anyone. The cost of a single data breach averages $4.45 million, but for a global bank, that number can skyrocket due to the vast amount of sensitive data at stake. Traditional perimeter-based security simply isn’t enough. With the rise of cloud services, remote workforces, and increasingly sophisticated attack vectors, a Zero Trust model—one that verifies every request regardless of its origin—becomes essential.

How Styra Powers Your Zero Trust Strategy

Styra’s Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) and Enterprise Open Policy Agent (EOPA) enable your bank to deploy a scalable, fine-grained, and dynamic Zero Trust framework across your entire infrastructure. This is not just about bolstering your security posture—it’s about unlocking significant business value.

Let’s break down how Styra can transform your security approach and your bottom line.

1. Granular Access Control Saves You Millions by Preventing Breaches

Styra’s granular Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) allow your security team to enforce policies that ensure only the right people have access to sensitive systems. This reduces the risk of unauthorized access—a major vulnerability in today’s banking environment.

What does this mean for your bottom line?

By preventing unauthorized access to customer data, Styra can help you avoid the astronomical costs associated with data breaches, which range from $4 million to $10 million per incident. Plus, enforcing precise security policies helps you stay compliant with GDPR, PCI DSS, and other financial regulations, potentially saving you $500,000 to $2 million in fines annually.

2. Dynamic Policy Updates Ensure Business Continuity

In the fast-paced world of banking, downtime is expensive. Styra’s real-time policy updates allow your team to respond quickly to new security threats without taking critical systems offline. With Styra, your policies stay agile and up-to-date, ensuring that your bank’s security posture evolves with new threats.

Dollar impact:

Downtime costs banks an average of $336,000 per hour. By avoiding just one hour of downtime, Styra can save your organization significant losses, keeping your services available to clients and minimizing operational risks. Add faster response times to emerging threats, and Styra helps prevent costly attacks, potentially saving another $500,000 to $1 million annually.

3. Consistent Policy Enforcement Across All Layers Reduces Your Attack Surface

Your bank likely has a complex tech stack—cloud, on-premises systems, Kubernetes, microservices. Styra enforces security policies at every layer, ensuring that no matter where a request originates, it adheres to the Zero Trust framework. This reduces the attack surface across the board.

Business value:

A consistent security posture across all layers drastically reduces the potential entry points for attackers. The result? Fewer breaches, saving you $4 million to $10 million per incident. Additionally, by simplifying policy enforcement for your IT team, Styra can cut operational costs by $250,000 to $500,000 annually.

4. Centralized Policy Management Lowers Administrative Costs

Managing access policies across multiple environments can become a logistical nightmare. Styra simplifies this with centralized policy management, giving your teams the ability to control access across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures from one platform.

Financial benefits:

This reduces the administrative overhead needed to maintain security controls, saving your bank $200,000 to $500,000 annually. Additionally, better governance and streamlined audit processes reduce compliance costs, which could amount to another $250,000 in savings.

5. Shift-Left Security Reduces Vulnerabilities Early

In banking, getting security right early in the software development lifecycle is critical. Styra integrates into your CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that policies are tested and enforced during the build process, not after software reaches production.

Cost savings:

Fixing vulnerabilities in production is exponentially more expensive than catching them in development. Styra’s "Shift Left" approach helps your development teams prevent costly security issues before they hit production, saving your bank $100,000 to $500,000 per issue. Plus, by automating security checks, your developers can ship software faster and more securely, potentially cutting operational costs by $250,000 to $500,000 annually.

6. Cross-Cloud Policy Management Increases Flexibility and Reduces Costs

Your bank is likely operating across multiple cloud environments, and maintaining consistent security across these platforms is a challenge. Styra helps you manage security policies seamlessly across all your cloud and on-prem infrastructures, ensuring uniform protection no matter where your workloads reside.

Revenue and savings:

Managing cross-cloud security effectively reduces operational overhead by $250,000 to $1 million annually. Additionally, the flexibility to scale cloud operations more securely opens up new revenue opportunities, potentially adding $500,000 to $2 million in growth annually.

7. Scalable Policy Enforcement Enhances Performance and Reduces Costs

As your bank grows, so do your security needs. Styra scales horizontally to handle the growing complexity of your infrastructure, ensuring that policy decisions are enforced instantly, even as your operations expand.

Business outcomes:

By improving user experience through faster, more efficient policy decisions, Styra helps boost customer satisfaction, potentially increasing revenue by $1 million to $5 million annually. Plus, its cost-effective scalability saves you $500,000 to $1 million in operational expenses as your bank continues to grow.

The Bottom Line: How Styra Delivers Financial and Security Value

Styra’s DAS and EOPA platform isn’t just about tightening security—it’s about delivering tangible, measurable business value. By enabling fine-grained access control, real-time policy updates, centralized management, and seamless scalability, Styra can save your bank anywhere from $500,000 to $10 million annually, depending on the size of your operations and the threats you face.

As a financial executive, your priority is ensuring that your bank remains secure, compliant, and competitive. With Styra, you achieve all three, while unlocking significant cost savings and driving new revenue opportunities.

Are you ready to secure your bank’s future with a Zero Trust strategy powered by Styra? The numbers speak for themselves.

Let’s talk about how Styra can help your organization.