A multibillion-dollar global alternative investment manager needed to implement best practices as outlined by the SEC OCIE recommendation to address an increasingly important issue in the current security climate and primary vectors for malware — office macros, which heavily expose companies to phishing attacks resulting from outgoing wire transfers.
Siepe developed a tool for the manager to run an internal workflow for Excel office macros that identified any Excel files with macros, then queued them up to be signed through a vetting process.