Credential harvesting & account takeover
Attacks using phishing, malware, and credential-stuffing to compromise online banking, portals, or trading accounts.
Cyber Security for Financial Services
Protecting banks, insurers, trading environments, and fintech organisations from targeted cyber attacks and regulatory risk.
Cyber Defence for Financial Institutions
Financial services organisations face some of the most sophisticated adversaries in the world. Attackers target customer accounts, trading platforms, payment systems, cloud identity, and third-party integrations – all while exploiting strict regulatory time pressures imposed by FCA, PRA, SWIFT CSP, DORA, and UK GDPR.
Cyber Defence provides industry-aligned cyber protection across SOC365, Threat Intelligence, Penetration Testing, and Incident Response, helping financial institutions strengthen resilience, reduce fraud, and protect consumer trust.
Threats
Key cyber threats facing financial services
We protect financial institutions against threats that directly impact customers, revenue, and regulatory compliance:
Payment fraud & social engineering
BEC, authorised push payment fraud, and manipulation of internal processes to divert funds.
Cloud & identity compromise
Exploitation of Azure AD/M365 identities, conditional access gaps, and misconfigured SaaS systems.
Web & API attacks
Exploitation of APIs, online banking systems, mobile apps, and trading platforms.
Ransomware & destructive attacks
Attacks targeting financial data, customer platforms, and back-office systems for maximum disruption.
Third-party & supply chain breaches
Attacks through integrated service providers, payment processors, or software supply chain.
Services
How Cyber Defence supports financial institutions
We provide tailored protection across SOC operations, threat intelligence, offensive security, and response.
SOC365 Managed Detection & Response
24/7 MDR tuned to financial environments, including fraud detection signals and payment-system telemetry.
Threat Intelligence
Sector-specific IOCs, fraud campaigns, brand monitoring, phishing infrastructure tracking, and dark web monitoring.
Penetration Testing & Red Teaming
Testing for online banking, trading systems, APIs, card infrastructure, and cloud identity paths.
Incident Response & Forensics
Rapid response to BEC, fraud, ransomware, or compromised financial systems, supported by IR Retainers.
Engineering & Hardening
Hardening of identity, cloud, network, and application stacks – aligned with FCA, PRA, SWIFT CSP, and DORA.
IT, cloud and operational system protection for finance
Financial environments extend beyond traditional IT systems. Cyber Defence provides monitoring and testing for operational systems including ATMs, card systems, branch networks, payment gateways, and back-office processing platforms.
We unify visibility across cloud identity, core banking applications, on-premises infrastructure, and financial transaction systems, ensuring threats are detected early and contained quickly.
Outcomes
What financial organisations gain
Cyber Defence delivers measurable improvements to risk reduction and regulatory compliance.
Reduced financial fraud & account compromise
Stronger detection and engineering reduces the likelihood of successful payment diversion or account takeover.
Improved regulatory alignment
Support tailored to FCA, PRA, DORA, SWIFT CSP, and UK GDPR requirements.
Unified visibility across systems
SOC365 correlates telemetry from cloud identity, applications, internal networks, and financial systems.
Rapid incident containment
IR Retainers ensure you have immediate, contract-backed support for urgent incidents.
Protection from targeted adversaries
Threat Intelligence monitors campaigns targeting the financial sector and enriches SOC365 detections.
A partner trusted by financial institutions
Our combined offensive and defensive expertise provides long-term operational assurance.
Speak with our financial services specialists
Whether you need to strengthen monitoring, harden your cloud identity, test your applications, or prepare for DORA, Cyber Defence can help you build a defensible, compliant security posture.