TBI Bank

TBI Bank operates mobile banking services across three European countries, exposing customers and infrastructure to a threat landscape that evolves faster than traditional security workflows can track. CISO Dobrin Dobrev's team had no centralized source of truth for threat intelligence — analysts manually scraped dark web forums, social media, and hacker channels to identify malicious indicators, a process that consumed days per investigation with uncertain accuracy. Threat actors in the financial sector constantly rotate aliases and tactics, making prioritization unreliable. Without automation or unified visibility, the team risked identifying emerging threats — phishing campaigns, malicious IPs, new malware strains — only after they had already escalated into serious incidents.

TBI Bank deployed Recorded Future to consolidate threat intelligence from dark web channels, hacker forums, and open sources into a single platform, replacing manual multi-source scrubbing with real-time, aggregated indicators of compromise. The platform applies anomaly detection and pattern recognition to assign risk scores to threat actors based on reputation, past behavior, and sighting frequency — enabling analysts to prioritize the most critical exposures rather than triage indiscriminately. The implementation extended beyond intelligence aggregation: Recorded Future was integrated with TBI Bank's existing Darktrace deployment, creating an automated response layer that immediately blocks connections to malicious IP addresses upon detection, with no manual engineer intervention required. The rollout covered all three countries in TBI Bank's operating footprint.

The Recorded Future deployment delivered measurable gains across both speed and analyst capacity:

• 15% security team efficiency gain — analysts and engineers freed from manual scrubbing were redeployed to proactive threat hunting and vulnerability management without headcount increases
• Days → minutes for dark web investigations — intelligence that previously required multi-day manual collection is now surfaced in near-real time
• 3 countries covered under unified threat visibility

Beyond efficiency, the Darktrace integration catches threats like phishing campaigns and malicious IP connections at early stages, before they can escalate to full environment compromises. Dobrev cites measurable reduction in breach risk and associated cost avoidance, alongside strengthened customer confidence in TBI Bank's mobile platform.

• Centralization unlocks speed: consolidating threat intelligence into one platform eliminates the multi-source scrubbing bottleneck and compresses investigation timelines from days to minutes.
• Integrate detection with response: connecting a threat intelligence platform to existing tools (e.g., Darktrace) enables automated blocking workflows that act faster than any manual process.
• Early-stage detection is the highest-leverage control: catching phishing and malicious IPs before escalation is materially cheaper and less disruptive than reactive incident response.
• Risk scoring drives prioritization: structured threat actor profiles and sighting-based scores let small security teams allocate attention to the exposures that actually matter.