01
Digital Banking & Applications
Internet banking, mobile applications, customer portals, and
supporting backend systems create direct exposure to customers and attackers.
Weak authentication, insecure sessions, broken authorisation,
vulnerable business logic, and application flaws can expose
accounts, transactions, and sensitive customer information.
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02
Payments, APIs & Transactions
Payment gateways, transaction APIs, integrations, and approval
processes often connect multiple internal and external systems.
Weaknesses in authorisation, transaction validation, API security,
or business logic can create opportunities for fraudulent activity,
unauthorised access, or manipulation of financial processes.
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03
Identity & Privileged Access
Compromised administrator, employee, customer, or service accounts
can give attackers access to critical financial systems and data.
MFA, privileged access, service identities, lifecycle controls, and
conditional access must work together to reduce identity-driven attack paths.
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04
Cloud & Infrastructure Security
Cloud adoption introduces new security considerations around
identities, storage, workloads, configurations, network exposure,
monitoring, and resilience.
Misconfiguration or excessive permissions can expose financial
workloads even when traditional infrastructure controls remain strong.
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05
Third-Party & Supply-Chain Exposure
Financial institutions depend on cloud providers, technology
vendors, outsourced services, payment processors, and external integrations.
A weakness outside the organisation can still become a route into
internal systems, customer information, or critical business services.
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06
Ransomware & Cyber Incidents
A cyber incident affecting critical financial systems can disrupt
payment processing, customer access, internal operations, and business continuity.
Organisations need the capability to rapidly contain incidents,
preserve evidence, determine root cause, and recover systems securely.
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07
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Financial organisations need documented controls, clear security
responsibilities, measurable risk management, audit evidence, and management oversight.
Governance should connect cybersecurity requirements to real
operational risks rather than functioning only as a documentation exercise.
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