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Financial Services & Banking

SOX, PCI, GLBA under one accountable stack. Board-ready reporting every quarter.

Enterprise-grade cybersecurity and IT infrastructure solutions for financial institutions, focusing on fraud prevention and regulatory compliance.

PCI DSSSOXGLBAFFIEC

Banks, broker-dealers, wealth advisors, and fintech startups across Vancouver (Yaletown fintech cluster), Toronto (Bay Street), Miami, Orlando, and LA.

$5.9MAvg. financial services breach cost (IBM 2023)
6-figureTypical cyber insurance premium reduction after our onboarding
Real-timeSOC 2 + PCI evidence collected continuously, not quarterly
What you can count on

93% of tickets touched within 15 minutes. 100% of after-hours messages acknowledged the same business day. Every engagement staffed by a named senior engineer.

What we see in financial services & banking

Pain you're probably already feeling.

Your CFO is going to be asked about cyber risk at the next board meeting.

Regulators now expect financial services leaders to articulate cyber risk the same way they articulate credit risk — with quantified controls, tested playbooks, and audit trails. "We have antivirus" is not an answer anyone will accept twice.

Every fourth payment you process is a fraud attempt.

Between BEC (business email compromise), ACH manipulation, and synthetic-identity fraud, financial firms field hundreds of attack attempts per week. Most never become incidents — because the controls caught them. If you’re not seeing the attempts, you’re not looking.

A surprise audit shouldn’t require a month of evidence scrambling.

FFIEC, SOX, GLBA, PCI — four overlapping frameworks asking for similar evidence in different formats. Without a year-round evidence collector, your CFO’s quarter disappears into screenshots. Ours runs continuously, so audits are a review, not a project.

What we install on day one.

Secure Email Encryption

End-to-end email encryption and digital signatures

Included
Email & Communication SecurityEncryptionCompliance

Why this matters for financial

  • Sensitive data exposure in email
  • Regulatory compliance requirements
  • Legal privilege protection
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Advanced Endpoint Protection

Next-generation antivirus and endpoint security

Included
Endpoint & Device SecurityEndpoint SecurityAntivirus

Why this matters for financial

  • Advanced malware and ransomware
  • Zero-day exploit protection
  • Endpoint visibility and control
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Compliance Management

Comprehensive regulatory compliance automation

Included
Compliance & Risk ManagementComplianceRegulatory

Why this matters for financial

  • Complex compliance requirements
  • Manual compliance processes
  • Audit preparation challenges
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Vulnerability Assessment

Continuous vulnerability scanning and management

Included
Compliance & Risk ManagementVulnerability ScanningSecurity Testing

Why this matters for financial

  • Unidentified security vulnerabilities
  • Patch management priorities
  • Asset inventory challenges
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Identity & Access Management

Comprehensive identity governance and access control

Included
Identity & Access ManagementIAMSingle Sign-On

Why this matters for financial

  • Password management complexity
  • Unauthorized access risks
  • Identity compliance requirements
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Compliance, line by line

What each framework actually asks for — and what we do about it.

PCI DSS

What it requires

12 high-level requirements covering secure network, cardholder data protection, vulnerability management, access control, monitoring, and security policy.

How we help

Quarterly ASV scans, documented segmentation of your cardholder data environment, P2PE-aware integration guidance, and audit-ready evidence on every QSA visit.

SOX / ICFR

What it requires

Internal controls over financial reporting; change management and access controls on systems that touch financial data.

How we help

Named engineer approval workflow for production changes; segregation of duties baked into our RMM; evidence packages exported quarterly for your SOX 404 documentation.

GLBA + FFIEC

What it requires

Safeguards rule (written information security program), FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, and incident response readiness.

How we help

We run the FFIEC CAT annually with you, score your inherent risk vs. cybersecurity maturity, and build the written IS program your examiner wants to see.

Additional compliance services

Privileged Access Management

Secure privileged account and access control

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Free self-serve tools

Score your risk. Price your downtime. No call required.

Two short diagnostics built by our senior engineers. Answer a handful of questions, get a scored report with next steps — yours to keep either way.

Questions we always get

Before the call.

Straight answers so the health-check call can skip the basics.

Do you support custodian and clearinghouse integrations (Schwab / Fidelity / Pershing / DTCC)?

Yes. We manage the firewall rules, VPNs, and certificate rotations required for custodian connections, and we know the audit patterns they expect to see when they test your side of the link.

Can you help us pass an OCC / OSFI / FINRA / IIROC examination?

Yes. We map your controls to the relevant examiner handbook in advance, rehearse likely interview questions with your compliance lead, and have the evidence packet ready before the examiner arrives. Our clients rarely have material findings.

How do you handle trading-floor uptime and latency?

Trading-floor networks are a different animal from back office — we run dedicated redundant paths, monitored round-trip latency to counterparties, and pre-positioned hardware swaps. Most of our fintech clients have us running both sides of the house.

What about ransomware during market hours?

Immutable backups with tested restores (not just scheduled backups), network segmentation so an endpoint compromise doesn’t reach the trading systems, and a documented runbook with your broker-dealer counterparty in the call tree. Most critical: we’ve rehearsed it.

Can you help reduce our cyber insurance premium?

Yes, and it’s measurable. The three controls insurers weight most — managed EDR, enforced MFA, tested backups — are installed by default on our stack. Several fintech clients have seen mid-six-figure premium drops within the first renewal cycle.

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