How a 70-Year-Old Financial Services Company Met a Five-Day MFA Compliance Deadline with Datawiza

Datawiza to the Rescue

What happens when a 70-year-old, family-run company in the financial services industry discovers that it must implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) for its customer portal within five days or risk non-compliance and be forced to shut down the portal until it becomes compliant?

They could panic. Or pray. That was their only option — until they discovered Datawiza.

The company’s customer portal was built years ago on legacy architecture that would require months of recoding to securely add MFA. But regulators were clear: without MFA in place, the business could lose access to its customer portal and face serious compliance penalties under NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500.

Then came Datawiza — the no-code way to add modern authentication to any web application in just a few hours, without changing a single line of code.

The Challenge

• Deadline: MFA must be implemented within five days to avoid non-compliance.
• Risk: Portal would have to be shut down until compliant.
• Environment: Legacy web application — recoding was complex and time-consuming.
• Goal: Deploy MFA fast, securely, and with minimal impact to users.

⏱️ The stakes were high: Without immediate action, the company risked both financial penalties and customer disruption.

The Solution — Datawiza N0-Code MFA

Datawiza enables organizations to add modern authentication and MFA to any web application without code changes— typically in just a few hours.

Here’s how the deployment unfolded:

• The Datawiza technical team began working with the company’s application and security teams on Friday morning.
• Over the weekend, they:
  1. Integrated Datawiza Access Proxy in front of the customer portal.
  2. Configured Datawiza’s MFA policies aligned with NYDFS compliance.
  3. Started with a test application, validated the flow, then extended it to production.
• By Monday night, MFA was fully deployed and tested.
• By Wednesday, the portal was online, fully compliant, and offering customers a better login experience than before.

⚡ Implementation time: just a couple of hours of configuration and testing — no code rewrites, no downtime.

The Results

• ✅ Compliance achieved — MFA live before the regulatory deadline.
• ⚙️ Deployment completed in hours, not months.
• 🔒 No code changes required on the legacy application.
• 🌐 Improved user experience with modern MFA login flows.
• 💡 Business continuity preserved — no service interruption or portal downtime.

Why It Matters

• For compliance officers: NYDFS and other MFA mandates can be met even under tight deadlines.
• For IT teams: Datawiza simplifies modernization without disrupting legacy systems.
• For business leaders: Compliance achieved, customers protected, and trust maintained.

Key Takeaways

• NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 requires MFA — but compliance doesn’t have to mean expensive rewrites.
• With Datawiza MFA, deployment can be completed in a single weekend.
• The process is test-first, safe, and proven — the actual work can take just a few hours.
• Works for any industry: insurance, finance, government, healthcare, and education.
• Can run standalone or integrate with existing identity providers (Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping, Google, and more).

Conclusion

What began as a Friday morning compliance emergency turned into a Wednesday success story. With Datawiza MFA, this 70-year-old financial services company avoided a costly portal shutdown, achieved NYDFS compliance on time, and even improved the end-user login experience — all without changing a single line of code.

👉 Need MFA to meet NYDFS or other compliance requirements? Book a demo and see how you can deploy MFA in hours, not months.