As global organizations expand across borders, acquire new subsidiaries, or adopt cloud-native architectures, their operations naturally become decentralized. While this distributed model drives local innovation and agility, it also adds more complexity. Digital assets keep growing, processes diverge and security visibility becomes strained.

This decentralized approach spreads decision-making, infrastructure, and tech across multiple regions and divisions. Each local unit manages its own technology stack, leading to variations in security standards and tooling. The result is fragmentation. This is where blind spots can appear in security coverage, duplicated systems, and inconsistent data. These gaps complicate remediation and slow decision-making, leaving even the most capable global organizations vulnerable.

How decentralization creates strain

The challenge of decentralization costs enterprises more money and energy to ensure standards are met across divisions. Take two of our recent clients

How Crédit Agricole manages interconnected complexity

A French global personal banking service company, Crédit Agricole, operates through a large network of subsidiaries, each with its own systems and priorities. This decentralized structure makes it challenging to maintain clear visibility across all digital assets within a highly fragmented and constantly evolving attack surface. With more than 100 different technologies in use, the organization faced potential blind spots that threat actors could exploit.

Adding to the complexity, many of Crédit Agricole’s teams are interconnected across entities that share infrastructure, resources, and customer bases. Managing risk in such an environment requires precise visibility and tailored access controls, ensuring each team can focus on securing its domain without losing oversight of the broader organization.

SHV Energy resolves M&A fragmentation

As a leading global distributor of off-grid energy and sustainable fuel solutions, SHV Energy operates in more than 25 countries across four continents. Each region manages its own infrastructure and technology environment, creating a highly distributed operational model. This structure made it challenging for security teams to maintain a unified view of their digital landscape and ensure consistent protection across all markets.

The complexity grew further through mergers and acquisitions, which introduced new networks, assets, and technologies that needed to be integrated into SHV Energy’s existing systems. Each acquired entity often brought its own processes, tools, and security standards, adding layers of fragmentation. Security teams were burdened with an increasing number of manual checks and routines to manage these diverse environments, making it difficult to maintain visibility, prioritize critical risks, and focus on strategic initiatives that would strengthen the organization’s overall security posture.

Hadrian transforms fragmentation into control

Hadrian transforms the way organizations manage decentralized operations, turning sprawling assets and fragmented systems into a single, clear, and manageable view.

Complete, real-time visibility and control

For Crédit Agricole PFM, Hadrian provided immediate, complete visibility and control over its complex digital environment. Through dynamic asset discovery, the platform continuously monitors more than 5,000 digital assets in real time across multiple networks and business units.

Technology mapping: Hadrian’s Technology View maps exposed assets across all 100+ technologies used by Crédit Agricole PFM.

Centralized inventory: All discovered assets are automatically centralized into a single, exportable inventory, streamlining how teams analyze, prioritize, and act on security findings.

Tailored access: Hadrian’s role-based access control ensures that 15 teams spread across various divisions have the right level of visibility and precise permissions, enabling each group to focus on its specific responsibilities while maintaining consistent security oversight.

Speed, automation, and certainty

For SHV Energy, Hadrian simplified the challenge of managing risk in their highly distributed global environment by injecting speed, clarity, and automation.

Risk validation: Hadrian’s decision-based probes use continuous 24/7 risk insights and vulnerability validation to accurately detect and eliminate false positives, ensuring SHV Energy’s teams focus only on real threats.

Automated remediation: When a security team marks a risk as resolved, Hadrian automatically retests and confirms that the issue has been fully remediated, closing the security loop with certainty.

Workflow integration: All investigation results are available through a user-friendly portal and can be integrated with SHV Energy’s existing third-party tools. These automated workflows significantly reduce the time security teams spend on manual research and validation.

Hadrian transforms the way organizations manage decentralized operations, turning fragmented systems and sprawling assets into a clear, manageable view. By automating complex workflows and providing continuous visibility, it helps security teams reduce risk, eliminate inefficiencies, and focus on the most critical priorities. In doing so, Hadrian empowers global organizations like Crédit Agricole and SHV Energy to operate with confidence and resilience across every part of their digital infrastructure.

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