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Cybersecurity for Financial Services
Financial services organisations combine the direct financial incentive attackers already have to target this sector with an increasingly demanding regulatory environment: DORA on top of NIS2 and GDPR. Governance and incident-response readiness both matter more here than average.
Where risk concentrates
Targeted fraud and business email compromise aimed at payment processes
API and integration vulnerabilities in open banking and partner connections
Insider threat and privileged access abuse
Third-party and ICT supply-chain risk, now a direct DORA requirement
Attack surface
Core banking or financial platforms, payment processing integrations, open banking APIs, and an increasingly complex web of third-party ICT providers, each a potential path into the core environment.
Regulatory considerations
DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) adds ICT risk-management requirements specific to financial entities, on top of NIS2 and GDPR obligations that already applied. This is one of the most regulated sectors covered here.
Business impact
Beyond direct financial loss and regulatory penalties, financial services incidents carry acute reputational risk. Trust is the core product, and a visible security failure undermines it directly.