Finance Security Solutions
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Cyber Security for Finance
As financial services evolve in complexity and digital reach, so too do the cyber threats targeting them. From payment fraud and insider threats to ransomware, regulatory breaches, and third-party risks, the finance sector faces constant pressure from increasingly sophisticated cyber adversaries.
CyberLab understands the critical importance of trust, compliance, and resilience in financial environments. Our tailored cyber security solutions help banks, lenders, insurers, and fintechs protect sensitive data, secure transactions, and maintain continuity – through real-time threat detection, secure cloud enablement, regulatory alignment, and rapid incident response.
With CyberLab, your organisation is not only protected, but prepared – for today’s threats and tomorrow’s challenges.
CyberLab Protects 100+ Finance Customers
At CyberLab, we’re proud to support over 100 financial organisations across the UK, including banks, building societies, and fintech innovators. Our clients trust us to safeguard their operations, data, and reputations in an increasingly complex threat landscape.
Our tailored services are designed to meet the unique demands of the finance sector. From Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for 24/7 threat monitoring, to Penetration Testing that uncovers vulnerabilities before attackers do, we help financial institutions stay one step ahead. Our CyberLab Control Services offer scalable, managed security solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructure – ideal for organisations that need protection without the overhead.
More than just a service provider, CyberLab is a trusted partner. We’re here to inform, guide, and support our clients with expert insight and practical solutions. Whether you’re a traditional bank navigating digital transformation or a fintech scaling rapidly, we’re ready to help you build a more secure future.
The Top Threats Facing Finance
Why No Financial Institution Is Immune to Today’s Evolving Cyber Threats
Credential Phishing
Sophisticated scams targeting staff to gain access to credentials, systems, or financial data.
Malware & Ransomware
Criminals encrypt critical systems and demand payment, often targeting financial institutions due to their high-value data.
Cloud Misconfigurations
Mismanaged cloud environments can expose sensitive data or create backdoors for attackers.
API Exploits
Poorly secured or exposed APIs can be manipulated to access sensitive data, disrupt services, or bypass authentication controls.
Insider Threats & Human Error
Malicious or negligent insiders like employees, contractors, or partners pose a growing risk to financial data and systems.
Business Email Compromise (BEC)
Attackers impersonate executives or suppliers to trick finance teams into transferring funds or revealing sensitive data.
Third-Party & Supply Chain Risks
Vendors and service providers can introduce vulnerabilities - especially critical under DORA and NIS2 regulations.
Regulatory & Financial Fallout
Failure to meet evolving standards like DORA, NIS2, GDPR, and FCA guidelines can result in fines, audits, and reputational damage.
Complimentary Cyber Security Posture Assessment
We’ve created this easy-to-complete assessment as a simple, accessible way to identify the areas that need attention to ensure your institution is protected against today’s most pressing risks – from regulatory breaches to ransomware – and ready to defend against the threats of tomorrow.
Legal Compliance in Finance
What You Need to Know About Legal Compliance & Legislation in the Finance Industry
PCI DSS
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a mandatory standard for any business handling card payments. It ensures secure processing, storage, and transmission of cardholder data.
DORA
The Digital Operational Resilience Act is an EU regulation that mandates financial entities to manage ICT risk, test digital resilience, and report major incidents.
ISO/IEC 27001
An international standard for information security management systems (ISMS). Often used by financial institutions to demonstrate best-practice security controls.
Cyber Essentials Plus
Cyber Essentials Plus is a UK government-backed scheme that offers hands-on verification your financial organisation is protected against common cyber threats.
CyberLab Talk at Manchester Digital’s Fintech Conference
Building Trust in a Digital-First World
CyberLab recently joined leading voices at the Manchester Digital FinTech Conference to explore how security is shaping the future of finance. From AI-driven transformation to evolving compliance demands, our session highlighted how financial organisations can scale securely while maintaining trust.
The blog captures key insights from the event, including practical strategies for navigating FCA regulations, modernising data platforms, and building cyber resilience. It’s a must-read for finance leaders looking to stay ahead in a fast-moving digital landscape.
Data Protection Trends in Finance
What You Need to Know About Data Protection for Financial Institutions
Operational Resilience & Compliance
Financial firms must now meet stricter rules under DORA, NIS2, and UK Operational Resilience frameworks - requiring rapid incident reporting, impact tolerance planning, and third-party risk oversight.
AI-Powered Threat Detection
Banks and fintech's are adopting AI to detect behavioural anomalies and automate response - essential for countering targeted attacks and reducing breach impact.
Managing Encryption & Vulnerabilities
Encrypting sensitive data and conducting regular penetration testing are now baseline requirements to protect customer trust and meet audit standards.
Supply Chain & Insider Risk
Institutions must vet vendors for security compliance and address insider threats, including misuse of AI tools and accidental data exposure.
AI's Role in Data Protection Explained with Forcepoint
Tales from the CyberLab Podcast
AI is rapidly transforming data protection in the financial sector, where safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining regulatory compliance are critical. In a recent discussion, Stuart Wilson from Forcepoint joined host Adam Myers to explore how AI is reshaping security strategies for banks and fintech’s.
They examined the benefits and risks of AI in environments governed by frameworks like PCI-DSS and DORA, and addressed the growing challenge of shadow AI – where unsanctioned tools can lead to data exposure or compliance failures.
The conversation also offered practical guidance for integrating AI securely into financial operations, helping institutions balance innovation with resilience and regulatory alignment.
How CyberLab Protects Financial Institutions
Meet compliance requirements, secure your data, and ensure online threats don’t compromise your institution.
Detect.
The first step in partnering with your financial institution is to assess your current security posture and uncover any vulnerabilities that could impact operations, customer trust, or compliance.
Our Penetration Testing services help identify vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, evaluate your ability to respond to security threats, assess compliance with security policies, and improve security awareness among staff and faculty.
Vulnerability Assessments offer a similar approach but are primarily automated, designed to provide a high-level overview of risks across your network efficiently.
You can streamline your regular vulnerability assessments with CyberLab Control, enabling automated monthly assessments to maintain security proactively.
To further enhance your security measures, Vicarius vRx offers a complete patch management system that discovers, prioritises, and remediates software vulnerabilities across your estate, including smaller applications that are often overlooked.
Additionally, Forescout provides comprehensive visibility across your entire network, discovering and automatically classifying every IP-connected device.
Protect.
Our solutions help financial institutions stay secure while focusing on delivering seamless customer experiences.
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provides advanced threat hunting, detection, and response capabilities as a fully managed service. With MDR, you’ll have a dedicated team of 24/7 threat hunters to detect, classify, and respond to security threats.
Next-gen firewalls, like the Sophos XGS line, offer superior flexibility and application awareness, making them more effective than traditional rule-based firewalls. For financial institutions, next-gen firewalls offer robust protection without compromising performance.
To address the frequent risk of email-borne threats, Mimecast can help defend against impersonation fraud, malware, and phishing attempts, which are especially prevalent in financial settings.
UEBA (User and Entity Behaviour Analytics) solutions from Logpoint or Forcepoint quietly monitor and analyse user activity, alerting you to any unusual behaviour that could indicate potential system compromise.
Support.
We will equip your team with the knowledge and guidance necessary to utilise your new systems or programs effectively. Once your solutions are in place, you will receive ongoing support in line with your service level agreement.
You can also benefit from our extensive experience in supporting and maintaining these solutions through our range of Security Support services, tailored to meet the evolving security needs of educational institutions.
To enhance your organisation’s security standards, we offer support as an IASME-approved assessor for Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus. We provide options to guide you through securing these accreditations based on your institution’s requirements and technical capabilities.
For institutions using Microsoft services, our Microsoft 365 consultancy services offer expert assistance with configuring Microsoft services for enhanced security.
CyberLab Control supports ongoing security awareness with regular bite-sized Security Awareness Training modules and Phishing Simulations, designed to help identify and address any security blind spots among your staff.
The Solutions Protecting Financial Institutions
Comprehensive Cyber Security Solutions for Financial Institutions
Penetration Testing
Simulated cyber attacks to safeguard retail & e-commerce. Our CREST-accredited testers probe your websites, POS systems, and networks to find security gaps before criminals do – helping prevent breaches.
CyberLab Control
Cuts retail cyber risk with an all-in-one security platform. It scans the dark web for leaked credentials and continuously checks for system vulnerabilities – keeping your customer data safe 24/7.
Sophos MDR
24/7 threat hunting for retail & e-commerce. Sophos’s experts combine AI and human analysis to detect and stop attacks in minutes – blocking ransomware and breaches before they disrupt your stores or customers.
Managed Support
Round-the-clock cyber experts for retail & e-commerce. We act as an extension of your team, with proactive monitoring, patching, and backup management – plus optional 24/7 incident response.
Cyber Security Support
CyberLab Control Services
In finance, every second counts – whether it’s processing transactions, managing client data, or responding to regulatory demands.
CyberLab Control delivers simple, secure, and reliable managed security services designed to protect financial institutions across every digital touchpoint. Whether you’re operating high-volume trading platforms or managing sensitive customer records, we provide an extra layer of protection that integrates seamlessly with your existing systems and vendor tools.
It’s a smart way to outsource complex cyber challenges while staying focused on compliance, customer trust, and operational uptime. Choose the level of service that fits your institution’s needs and budget. Our experts are available by phone and email to detect threats, protect your digital infrastructure, and support your team – so you can keep your operations running securely and confidently.
Managed Detection and Response
Sophos MDR
In finance, downtime isn’t just inconvenient – it’s a risk to trust, compliance, and revenue.
From online banking platforms to internal systems, cyber threats can disrupt operations, expose sensitive data, and trigger regulatory scrutiny. Sophos MDR delivers fully managed 24/7/365 threat hunting and response, built to keep financial institutions secure and resilient.
Most firms don’t have the in-house resources to monitor and respond to threats around the clock. That’s where we come in. Sophos MDR combines advanced detection with expert-led response, helping banks, building societies, and fintech’s stop ransomware, fraud, and targeted attacks – before they impact customers or compliance. It’s proactive protection, built for the pace and pressure of modern finance.
Asset Management
Forescout
Financial networks are dynamic and complex – spanning branches, data centres, cloud platforms, and remote teams.
Forescout helps financial institutions maintain security, privacy, and compliance across this entire ecosystem, even as devices and users constantly connect and disconnect. Whether it’s a trading terminal, a third-party vendor’s laptop, or a new branch coming online, visibility and control are critical.
Forescout simplifies network access control, segmentation, and policy enforcement – so banks, building societies, and fintechs can keep operations running smoothly while staying protected against evolving threats and regulatory scrutiny.
Security information and event management
Logpoint
Financial institutions operate across a complex digital footprint – from core banking systems and cloud platforms to branch networks and remote teams. Logpoint’s converged SIEM solution provides end-to-end visibility, helping you detect and respond to threats quickly across your entire financial ecosystem.
With real-time monitoring, machine learning, and proactive alerting, Logpoint enables your team to act fast on incidents, reduce risk, and stay compliant – without adding operational complexity. It’s a smarter way to protect your customers, data, and reputation.
Email Security
Mimecast
Email remains one of the most common entry points for cyber attacks in finance. Mimecast integrates seamlessly with your existing systems to block phishing, ransomware, impersonation fraud, and spear-phishing using AI, machine learning, and social graphing.
Every email, attachment, and URL is scanned in real time – protecting your staff, clients, and sensitive financial data. With built-in defences against social engineering, a secure email gateway, and smart quarantine controls, Mimecast helps financial institutions prevent data leaks and maintain trust, compliance, and operational continuity.
Multi-Factor Authentication
SecurEnvoy
Financial institutions must meet strict regulatory standards while ensuring secure, seamless access for staff across branches, trading floors and offices. SecurEnvoy’s Access Management Solution offers a layered authentication approach that supports compliance and enhances user experience.
With options including app-based, SMS, desktop and hardware token authentication, plus passwordless FIDO2, SecurEnvoy lets you customise access controls to suit your environment. This ensures secure, simple logins across all systems and devices.
Patch Management
Vicarius
Financial organisations rely on a wide mix of operating systems and third-party applications, from trading platforms to compliance tools. Vicarius vRx helps you identify, prioritise and fix software vulnerabilities across your entire estate, including smaller apps that often go unnoticed.
With automated patching and smart prioritisation, vRx keeps your systems secure and your operations running smoothly.
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Consultancy
Leverage our expertise with Microsoft consultancy services designed to help you make the most of your Microsoft investment, including:
- MS Defender for: Endpoint | 365 | Cloud
- Device management via MS Intune for: Windows | MAC | iOS | Android
- Identity & Access Management via MS Entra (formerly Azure AD)
- Information Protection via MS Purview
- Security Health Checks against CIS Control
- Secure Score Improvement
Build or Buy: The True Cost of Cyber Security
A CFO's Perspective
In the fast-moving world of finance, where trust and digital resilience are essential, cyber security is a critical investment. But should you build defences in-house or work with a specialist provider? This webinar and blog explore the real costs behind both options to help financial leaders make informed decisions.
With expert insights and real-world examples, it reveals hidden risks, resource demands and long-term impacts. Whether you’re scaling up or managing tighter budgets, this guide helps you choose a cyber security model that protects your reputation and your bottom line.
Top 5 Cyber Security Predictions for 2025
Preparing for the Unpredictable: Trends Shaping the Future of Cyber Defence
As the digital landscape evolves, so do the threats and opportunities in cyber security. Organisations face an increasingly complex web of challenges – from AI-powered attacks to the growing influence of regulation. To stay ahead, it’s crucial to understand where the industry is heading over the next 12 months.
In this blog, we outline our top 5 cyber security predictions for 2025, offering insights into emerging trends and practical strategies to bolster your cyber defences. It’s no surprise that advancements in AI are shaping the future of cyber security, driving both innovation and new challenges in the year ahead.
eBook
The 2025 Security Testing Report
Top 12 Vulnerabilities Found by CyberLab During Penetration Testing
CyberLab’s 2025 Security Testing Report highlights the 12 most common vulnerabilities uncovered during penetration testing. From weak passwords and unpatched systems to SQL injection and mobile security flaws, the findings offer a clear picture of where organisations are most at risk.
This concise guide helps businesses understand what a penetration test might reveal and why regular testing is essential. It’s a practical resource for building a strong case for security investment and staying ahead of evolving threats.
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