FINANCIAL SERVICES
Defenses That Hold Up Under Real Pressure
Banking and payment services can't pause for security testing, and your board and examiners expect proof that defenses work.
UltraViolet unites practitioner-led, AI-accelerated offensive and defensive security to identify exposure and strengthen detection and response across identity, digital banking, payments, third-party risk, and AI systems.
26.6% → 61.3%
Potential ATT&CK coverage for a U.S. bank, without added alert noise.
6 retests in 6 days
Retests delivered for a U.S. bank to meet an internal compliance deadline.
~60 tests running at once
Across hundreds of third-party apps for a Fortune 500 financial software company.
10+ years
Partnering with a Fortune 500 financial software company through reorganizations.
WHY ULTRAVIOLET FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES
Turn Offensive Findings into Defensive Action
UltraViolet unites offense and defense so each informs the other. Your teams use red team findings to guide blue team action, protect payment systems from real-world threats, and demonstrate how well those defenses perform.
Find attack paths across banking applications, payment APIs, AI, and infrastructure. Red team findings sharpen SOC detections and playbooks.
24/7 monitoring and response, supported by proactive threat hunting, helps your team detect and contain threats earlier.
CREST-accredited testing and purple team validation show your board and examiners what was tested, what held, and what needs attention.
Customer Outcomes
Modernizing SIEM Operations Without Disrupting Detection
A Phased SIEM Migration Built for Scale and Continuity
Financial Services
A global digital banking and lending technology provider needed to migrate from an SIEM processing more than 70 TB each day without disrupting security operations. UltraViolet led a phased migration to SentinelOne, modernizing detections and preserving continuity throughout the transition.
The Challenge
- The existing SIEM processed more than 70 TB of data each day, driving up licensing and infrastructure costs.
- More than 4,000 saved searches, alerts, and dashboards needed to be accounted for before the migration could begin.
- Security operations had to continue throughout the transition, leaving little room for downtime or gaps in coverage.
- Detection logic developed over time needed to be carefully preserved, rebuilt, and validated in the new platform.
- As the environment grew, the legacy platform became harder to scale and less responsive for day-to-day security operations.
The Solution
- UltraViolet developed a phased migration plan that let the organization modernize its SIEM without disrupting security operations.
- Parallel data ingestion gave the team time to validate data quality and performance before moving critical workloads into production.
- More than 4,000 searches, alerts, and dashboards were reviewed and rebuilt to work effectively in the new SentinelOne environment.
- Detection logic was refined during the migration to improve performance while preserving the security use cases the team relied on.
- Structured testing, validation, and stakeholder coordination helped keep operations running from the first migration phase through final cutover.
Grounded in Regulations, Frameworks, and Standards That Make Security Measurable
We map engagement findings and defensive coverage to established regulations, frameworks, and standards. This gives your team a consistent way to measure exposure, validate progress, evaluate AI risk, and communicate resilience to boards, regulators, and examiners.
USE CASES WE SOLVE
Aligned to Your Priorities
Start with your highest-priority risks, then align testing, detection, response, and validation with your environment, release schedule, and compliance deadlines. Give your security team, developers, and SOC practical next steps to protect customer data, secure transactions, and keep banking and payment services running.
Threat modeling and secure design reviews assess new platforms and features before code ships, so weaknesses are fixed in design rather than in production.
Assess banking and wealth applications, mobile apps, and hundreds of APIs on your schedule, with findings prioritized by the paths they open to critical systems.
Assess LLM applications, agents, and guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage before you roll them out to employees, advisors, or customers.
Assess in-scope third-party applications and partner integrations, so vendor-risk reviews rest on test results, not questionnaires alone.
Add named detection engineers to your team or 24/7 monitoring, investigation, and response, working in the SIEM, EDR, and cloud tools you already run.
Purple team exercises run real threat actor profiles, record what was logged, prevented, and detected, and close gaps with your team for audit evidence.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We assess how attackers could exploit your AI systems and the applications, data, and infrastructure connected to them. Depending on your environment, testing combines attack surface discovery, cloud configuration review, and adversarial testing of models, agents, and orchestration layers, mapped to MITRE ATLAS.
Findings help your security and development teams prioritize fixes and inform AI governance decisions. Where we also provide detection and response, we use those findings to guide threat hunting.
We add testing capacity and specialized expertise where your team needs support. That can include managing assessments across hundreds of applications and APIs, coordinating with application teams, or meeting your reporting and governance requirements.
We work within your testing calendar and use Solstice, our AI-augmented testing platform, to expand coverage, with practitioners responsible for validating findings. Your team gains capacity while keeping control of scope, priorities, and process.
Clear evidence of what we tested, what worked, where gaps remain, and what needs attention. For purple team engagements, that includes what your controls logged, prevented, and detected, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and relevant frameworks.
Financial services customers have used these findings to prepare for audit committee discussions and document improvements to their defenses. Our practitioners can also answer questions directly to help leadership understand the results and decide what to prioritize.
We plan around your deadline, agreeing on scope, staffing, and deliverables up front. When urgent retesting or remediation validation is needed, we work with your team to confirm what needs testing and how quickly we can deliver.
We've completed six large retests for a U.S. bank in under a week to meet an internal compliance deadline. Our priority is to give your risk and audit teams the evidence they need, with time to review it before submission.
Yes. Dedicated Defense places named practitioners within your security operation, including cyber command centers, detection engineering functions, and SIEM platform teams. They work in your tools, follow your processes, and take direction from your leadership.
They build knowledge of your environment over time, adding capacity and expertise while your team stays in control.
Let's Talk About Your Financial Services Security Priorities
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