Atlantic Capital Group Achieves Real-Time Risk Visibility Across 2,400 Cloud Assets with Verastel SPARK
A mid-sized financial services firm replaced quarterly manual audits with continuous AI-powered security posture assessment — eliminating blind spots across its hybrid cloud environment.
The Challenge
“Atlantic Capital Group's security team was running manual quarterly audits across 2,400 cloud assets spread across AWS and Azure. Each audit took three weeks, produced a static snapshot, and was outdated before remediation was complete. High-severity findings that emerged between cycles went undetected for months.”
The Solution
Verastel SPARK was deployed to provide continuous security posture assessment using DeepScanX, scanning the full asset inventory in real time and ranking vulnerabilities by contextual risk score rather than raw CVSS severity.
Implementation
Agentless Asset Discovery
DeepScanX connected via cloud-provider APIs to enumerate all 2,400 assets across AWS and Azure accounts — including shadow assets previously unknown to the security team — without requiring any installed agents.
IntelliScore Risk Prioritisation
Each finding was scored contextually based on internet exposure, data sensitivity, IAM privilege level, and compliance scope — producing a prioritised remediation queue rather than a raw CVE list.
Ticketing Integration & SOC 2 Evidence
Automated Jira integration converted high-severity findings into tracked work items. Timestamped posture history provided continuous evidence for the SOC 2 Type II audit.
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