Payment & BEC fraud
Business email compromise and instruction fraud targeting treasury and client payment flows.
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Industries · Financial services
Security for institutions
that move value.
Financial firms hold money and the identity data used to move it. Organised attackers and payment fraud crews treat that as a permanent target — while regulators and counterparties expect evidence of control, not slogans.
Sector context
Trust is the product
Banking, wealth, insurance, and payments organisations operate interconnected ecosystems: core platforms, payment processors, brokers, and cloud SaaS that expand the attack surface beyond the corporate firewall. A compromised mailbox can redirect settlements; a weak customer portal can harvest credentials at scale. Security programmes must therefore speak both technical and fiduciary language.
CyberSafe helps financial teams prioritise controls that reduce fraud and operational disruption, prepare for examinations and customer due diligence, and maintain detection around the systems that actually move money. We align work to obligations you already face — such as data protection and financial conduct expectations — without inventing certifications we do not hold.
- Identity
- Least privilege
- Verify
Capabilities
Financial sector pressures
Where cyber risk meets money movement and regulatory scrutiny.
Credential & session theft
Attacks against customer portals, advisor desktops, and privileged banking applications.
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Third-party concentration
Core banking, processors, and fintech partners that can propagate compromise into your estate.
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Regulatory readiness
Evidence of access control, monitoring, and incident handling for supervisors and counterparties.
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Process
How we work with financial firms
Risk-ranked delivery that respects change windows and audit calendars.
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Map money paths
Identify systems and people involved in payments, trading, and client data.
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Test & assess
Targeted testing of portals, APIs, and privileged paths — not generic checklist scans.
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Harden identity
MFA, privileged access, and approval workflows for high-value transactions.
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Detect fraud signals
Monitoring use cases for mailbox rules, anomalous admin, and unusual payment activity.
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Prove readiness
Playbooks, evidence packs, and reporting suitable for exam and board review.
At a glance
Threats vs. CyberSafe responses
Sector-specific threats
- Invoice and payment redirection via compromised email
- Account takeover of customer and advisor portals
- Ransomware against core and branch operations
- Vendor or processor compromise with cascading access
- Insider misuse of client portfolios and PII
How CyberSafe responds
- Email and treasury process controls with verification steps
- Identity and session hardening for customer-facing systems
- Ransomware resilience for critical financial workloads
- Third-party risk reviews tied to access and monitoring
- Access recertification and anomaly detection for sensitive data
Capabilities
Outcomes for financial leaders
Controls that protect clients and stand up to scrutiny.
Institutional defence
Layered controls around the systems that hold deposits, portfolios, and payment authority.
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Operational visibility
Detection tuned to fraud and privilege abuse — not generic IT noise.
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Access integrity
Least privilege for staff, contractors, and privileged applications.
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Defensible posture
Documented controls and incident paths ready for auditors and counterparties.
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Threat landscape
The surface does not sit still.
Cloud estates, identities, vendors, and employee devices shift every week. A once-a-year assessment is a snapshot. CyberSafe treats the attack surface as a live model — continuously scanned, ranked by business consequence, and tied to the work of closing what actually matters.
- Internet-facing services, identity paths, and cloud defaults mapped as one surface
- Automated probing tropes — phishing, credential stuffing, unpatched CVEs — ranked by impact
- A continuous scan model so new exposure is seen before it becomes an incident
Scanning · Cloud360° surface
Secure the systems that hold trust
Tell us about your payment paths, portals, and supervisory calendar. We will help you prioritise the work that reduces real financial exposure.
Talk to CyberSafe