Cybersecurity for financial institutions
We help to protect financial services, fintech products and customers' data from breaches and targeted attacks, and we help to build cybersecurity that meets regulatory requirements without slowing down your releases.
Cybersecurity challenges in finance
Complex regulatory requirements
Financial organizations operate under the pressure of numerous and complex standards: PCI DSS for payment data, DORA for operational resilience, GDPR for personal data, along with financial regulators' requirements and ISO/IEC 27001. Compliance here is not optional but a condition of operating in the market and proof of security.
Sensitive financial and personal data
Financial organizations handle payment credentials, transactions, and personal data — exactly what attackers want most. The cost of every incident is extremely high: direct financial losses, regulatory fines and reputational damage that is hard to recover from.
Finance is a priority target
Payment flows attract both fraudsters who use automated tools to find vulnerabilities and APT-hacker groups capable of building complex operations on their own. Account takeover attacks, fraud, API breaches and targeted campaigns keep growing more sophisticated, and attackers increasingly go after whatever is easier to break, not just the main product.
A complex ecosystem of integrations and APIs
Open banking, payment gateways, third-party providers, and open APIs significantly expand the attack surface. Every integration is another door, and third-party risk means a partner's vulnerability can become your problem.
Rapid growth and cloud infrastructure
When a product takes off, the number of users and transactions and the volume of sensitive data grow exponentially. Because of the pace of scaling, unprotected services, forgotten subdomains, and insecure cloud configurations appear and need to be protected.
Security versus release speed
Time pressure pushes teams to sacrifice security requirements for speed. Vulnerabilities and secrets hard-coded into the source make it into releases — especially code quickly generated with AI and shipped without review — and fixing them later costs far more.
Why A42
- Experience from Gov & Defence Tech industries applied to protecting high-value financial systems.
- Innovative AI-powered approach that helps our clients ship new products and features faster and more securely.
- In-house products and services that cover the full cycle of needs: from secure code development to external perimeter protection.
- Storage of client's data in the jurisdictions their legislation requires.
- A clear understanding of AI-generated code and the vulnerabilities typical of it.
- Solutions aligned with international and regional regulations, including the EU, US, Ukraine, and other markets.
- Reports suitable for passing compliance (PCI DSS, DORA, ISO 27001) and convincing for partner banks, regulators, and investors — provided the identified vulnerabilities are fixed.
Cybersecurity Products and Services for Fintech
Organizations come to A42 with different tasks. Some need to test a web application or assess their external attack surface. Others need to review their access management system, strengthen the security of their cloud infrastructure, integrate protection into the development process, or prepare their staff for modern cyber threats. For companies that need a comprehensive approach, we put together a personalized offering of cybersecurity services — from asset inventory and risk assessment to testing, access management, cloud protection, secure development, and continuous monitoring. This approach lets you not only fix an individual problem but also gradually build a resilient and managed cybersecurity system.
Building cybersecurity
We comprehensively assess your digital infrastructure, security architecture, management processes, existing controls, and the organization's level of cyber maturity — and, for fintech, also readiness for industry requirements, in particular PCI DSS and DORA. As a result, the client receives a clear picture of the key risks, remediation priorities, and a practical roadmap to strengthen cyber resilience focused on their business needs.
We help to build identity and access management systems that reduce the risk of account compromise and provide control over privileged access. Our solutions cover: Access Matrix; Role-Based Access Control; Privileged Access Management; Identity Governance; Access Reviews; management of privileged accounts; and Joiner–Mover–Leaver processes.
We help you to integrate cybersecurity requirements at every stage of software development: from architecture design to testing and release. The service covers Secure SDLC, DevSecOps, Threat Modeling, Code Review, AI SAST, and the security assessment of AI-based systems and products.
We assess the architecture, configurations, access models, logging mechanisms, and security posture of AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and private cloud environments. As a result, the organization receives practical recommendations for eliminating insecure configurations, protecting data, and strengthening the resilience of its cloud infrastructure.
Even the best technologies cannot fully eliminate human-factor risks. We help build a cybersecurity culture through interactive training, hands-on scenarios, phishing attack simulations, and regular assessment of staff awareness. Programs are adapted to employees' roles, the specifics of the organization's activity, and the threats most relevant to it.
Continuous cybersecurity monitoring
Automated penetration testing based on more than 100 attack methodologies used by elite defenders in Gov & Defence Tech. Thanks to AI agents, you get an enterprise-grade pentest with a compliance-ready report in just four days — significantly faster and cheaper than manual testing. Every vulnerability is confirmed with a proof of concept. Suitable for meeting requirements such as DORA (baseline security), the annual PCI DSS test, and others.
A SaaS platform that automatically monitors the company's external perimeter — domains, subdomains, externally exposed services — and detects data leaks and vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Assessment runs entirely from the outside, with no access to the internal network.
AI SAST
Free component of Recon + ExposureStatic code analysis tool that helps you deliver quickly and securely. Scans the entire codebase in minutes and delivers a Markdown report ready to hand to an AI agent for fast remediation.
We test the security of web applications, APIs, servers, network infrastructure, corporate systems, and cloud environments to detect technical risks before attackers exploit them. The assessment covers not only finding technical vulnerabilities but also analyzing their potential business impact. The result is a prioritized remediation plan with practical recommendations for technical teams and management.
Compliance with industry standards and requirements
A42 Governance, Risk & Compliance Platform
Coming soonCybersecurity, risk, and compliance in a single system. A42's own platform lets you simultaneously assess your actual security posture, the organization's maturity level, and compliance with international standards and regulatory requirements. The platform automates assessment, risk management, compliance tracking, and roadmap creation, linking the provisions of standards to real technical and organizational measures. It supports compliance assessment against ISO/IEC 27001, NIS2, PCI DSS, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and other standards.
AI Security Platform
Coming soonAn A42 platform that assesses the security and trustworthiness of your AI systems against the requirements of the EU AI Act, helping you prepare for its conformity obligations in advance.