A major global financial institution with hundreds of thousands of employees faced rising risks from firmware-level vulnerabilities in endpoint devices supplied by a widely used vendor. With nation-state actors, particularly those linked to China, increasingly launching sophisticated supply chain attacks, the organization needed deeper visibility into chip- and firmware-level security across its distributed workforce. Traditional endpoint security tools proved insufficient, failing to detect threats embedded below the operating system. This gap left critical systems exposed, driving the bank to seek advanced solutions capable of identifying and mitigating firmware-based threats to strengthen its overall cybersecurity posture and defend against highly advanced adversaries.

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