Regulatory evidence is manual
Compliance evidence is assembled by hand before every review, with no continuous way to prove controls held all year.
Financial Services
Resilient, auditable platforms for regulated finance.
Banks, fintechs, insurers and finance companies face constant regulatory scrutiny and zero tolerance for downtime. We build identity-first, observable infrastructure with evidence ready before the auditor asks.
Industry challenges
What makes financial services hard to secure.
Legacy core systems slow new products
Core banking platforms turn every new product or channel into a multi-quarter integration project.
Fraud and account-takeover pressure
Attackers target credentials and payment flows constantly, and detection tuned for noise misses what matters.
Third-party and cloud risk scrutiny
Regulators and internal risk teams expect evidence for every vendor and cloud dependency, not just your own systems.
Regulatory & compliance landscape
The frameworks this industry is measured against.
| Framework | What it requires | How we address it |
|---|---|---|
| GLBA Safeguards Rule / FFIEC | A written information security program, risk assessment and examiner-ready controls for financial institutions. | Control mapping, hardening, continuous evidence. |
| FFIEC Business Continuity Management | Tested resilience and recovery plans for critical financial services. | DR design, tested failover, recovery drills. |
| CFPB Section 1033 open-banking rule | Secure, standards-based API access to customer financial data. | API security gateway, consent management, monitoring. |
| PCI DSS v4 | Protection of cardholder data across storage, processing and transmission. | Network segmentation, encryption, scope reduction. |
| SOX ITGC / NYDFS Part 500 | IT general controls over financial reporting and state cybersecurity program requirements. | Change governance, access reviews, governed landing zones, policy as code. |
Solutions for this industry
Where we typically start in financial services.
Focus areas: least-privilege identity, audit trails, resilience, risk reporting, and governed AI adoption.
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Identity-first access, tuned detection and continuous evidence mapped directly to FFIEC / GLBA controls.
Cloud Modernization
Modernize core and digital-channel infrastructure on a governed foundation without losing the audit trail.
Data & Analytics
A trusted fraud-analytics and reporting platform built on governed, reconciled financial data.
AI Transformation
Governed AI for internal knowledge, document review and operations that survives risk and compliance review.
Platform Engineering
A secure developer platform so digital-channel teams ship faster without breaking control evidence.
Managed Operations
Continuous monitoring, patching and recovery testing for systems that can't have unplanned downtime.
Use cases
Use cases we deliver in financial services.
Compliance evidence automation
Continuous, exportable evidence mapped to GLBA and PCI controls, not assembled before each review.
Open banking API platform
Secure, standards-based API access to customer data with consent and monitoring built in.
Fraud analytics data platform
A governed data foundation that powers fraud and account-takeover analytics.
Secure developer platform
Golden-path CI/CD and access controls so digital-channel teams ship without reinventing security.
DR for core and payment systems
Tested disaster recovery for the systems that can't have unplanned downtime.
Governed GenAI for operations
AI assistants for internal knowledge and operations with access controls that pass risk review.
Reference architecture
How data and access typically flow.
Customers and staff reach digital channels through identity-verified access; an API gateway connects core banking, payments and open-banking integrations; data lands in a governed platform; security monitoring and evidence collection span every layer.
Delivery approach
Structured around continuous evidence, not review-week panic.
Each phase leaves a documented control or piece of evidence in place, not just a recommendation.
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Assess current control posture, evidence gaps and the specific GLBA/PCI scope you're measured against.
- Posture & gap assessment
- Control-to-framework mapping
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Design identity, network segmentation and evidence pipelines mapped to FFIEC / GLBA and PCI DSS scope.
- Identity & segmentation design
- Evidence pipeline design
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Roll out least-privilege access, tuned detection and automated evidence collection across core and digital channels.
- Controls live across core & channels
- Automated evidence pipeline
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Test detections, failover and evidence exports against real regulator and PCI assessor expectations.
- Detection & failover test results
- Sample evidence pack
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Hand over incident response runbooks, evidence dashboards and recovery drill schedules.
- Incident response runbooks
- Evidence dashboards
Delivery model
5 Phases
Milestone-Gated Delivery Model
Every control ships with the evidence it needs to produce, so the next FFIEC exam or PCI assessment is a routine export.
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Documented Deliverable & Formal Go/No-Go Decision Gate
No code or infrastructure moves to production without passing automated compliance checks and client review.
Zero Vendor Lock-In
Delivered into client Git & cloud accounts
Infrastructure-as-Code
Terraform / Bicep repeatable blueprints
Operational Runbooks
Knowledge transfer & team enablement
What we measure
Indicators that show whether this is actually working.
Control coverage & evidence freshness
How much of the GLBA/PCI scope has current, exportable evidence.
RTO/RPO for critical services
Whether core banking and payment systems recover within regulatory expectations.
Deployment frequency with change-failure rate
How fast digital channels ship without increasing risk.
MTTD/MTTR
How quickly real threats are detected and contained.
FAQ
Questions we hear from risk, IT and compliance teams.
Short answers to common planning questions for Financial Services.
Can you help with third-party and cloud risk management reviews?
Yes. We document the control environment, data flows and risk assessment that examiners expect under the interagency guidance on third-party relationships.
Can our data stay hosted inside the United States?
Yes. We design for US-region hosting where regulation requires it, and document data residency for examiner and GLBA review.
Can you work alongside our core-banking vendor?
Yes. We work on identity, security, integration and hosting around your core platform; we don't replace vendor application support.
Can you help reduce our PCI DSS scope?
Yes. Network segmentation and tokenization are common ways we reduce how much of your environment falls inside PCI scope, lowering audit cost and risk.
Where do you usually start?
A short security and compliance gap assessment against the specific framework you're measured on, ending with a prioritized roadmap.
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