Financial Services
Breached. Not from lack of investment. From lack of continuous control validation.
Trusted by top 5 globally ranked financial institutions to close the gap between assumed security and proven security.
Adversary emulation built for banks, capital markets firms, insurers, and payment processors — using the real TTPs of the threat actors targeting your sector.
Schedule a Demo See How It Works →The Threat Reality
Financial services is the most targeted sector in the world. The attackers are organized, patient, and sophisticated.
Nation-states target financial systems for geopolitical leverage and theft at scale. Criminal groups target them for the highest-value payouts available. And because financial infrastructure is interconnected, a breach in one institution creates risk across the entire ecosystem.
Nation-State Groups
Lazarus Group. APT38. Scattered Spider.
North Korean state actors have stolen billions from financial institutions through SWIFT network attacks and cryptocurrency exchange compromise. Their TTPs are documented and emulatable.
Organized Crime
FIN7. Carbanak. Ransomware-as-a-Service.
Criminal groups operate with enterprise-level sophistication, dedicated R&D teams, service models, and multi-stage campaigns designed specifically to monetize access to financial systems at scale.
Insider & Supply Chain
The threat inside the perimeter.
Financial institutions are high-risk environments for insider threat and third-party supply chain compromise. Privileged access abuse is among the hardest attack vectors to detect, and the most damaging.
#1
Most targeted industry for cyberattacks globally — financial services for 6 consecutive years
$6.1B
Average annual losses from cyber incidents across global financial institutions
277
Average days to identify and contain a financial services data breach
68%
of financial institutions report their detection controls have never been validated against real adversary TTPs
The Compliance Gap
PCI DSS, FFIEC, and DORA tell you what controls to have. They don't prove those controls stop an adversary.
Financial services organizations operate under the most demanding regulatory cybersecurity frameworks of any industry. PCI DSS, FFIEC CAT, SOC 2, DORA, and ISO 27001 drive enormous investment in control frameworks, policies, and documentation. And yet financial services remains the most breached sector on earth.
The gap isn't the frameworks. The gap is that compliance validates that controls exist, not that they work against a FIN7 operator who has spent three months mapping your environment, knows your EDR vendor, and has a specific bypass for your SIEM detection rules.
SCYTHE closes that gap, continuously, with documented evidence regulators and leadership can act on.
Where Compliance Leaves You Exposed
Annual assessments miss year-round adversary activity
Threat actors don't operate on your audit calendar. Point-in-time assessments create a false sense of security between cycles, exactly when adversaries are most active.
Regulatory frameworks lag threat actor evolution
FFIEC and PCI DSS controls are designed around the last major incident cycle. FIN7 and Lazarus Group update their TTPs faster than regulatory guidance is revised.
SOC teams are never tested against realistic attack chains
A detection rule that fires on a scan from a pentest tool won't catch a nation-state operator using legitimate credentials and living off the land. Your SOC needs to train against the actual threat, not a simulation of the simulation.
Third-party risk is untestable through documentation alone
Vendor questionnaires tell you what your supply chain says about their security. Adversary emulation tells you whether a compromised vendor can move into your core banking environment.
The SCYTHE Advantage
Purpose-built adversary emulation for the world's most targeted financial institutions.
SCYTHE's platform gives financial security teams a continuous, repeatable way to validate that their controls actually stop the threat actors targeting their sector, and generates the evidence that regulators, boards, and CISOs need to make decisions with confidence.
Continuous Validation
Test controls on your timeline, not the auditor's.
Run adversary emulation campaigns continuously across your environments to know your exposure in real time.
EDR Validation →FS Threat Library
FIN7, Lazarus, Carbanak. Your actual adversaries.
Access an extensive library of TTPs specific to financial sector threats — phishing, credential harvesting, wire fraud, SWIFT-related attack chains, and insider threat patterns.
Operationalize CTI →Purple Teaming
Build SOC capability against your real threat model.
Run structured purple team exercises that directly improve detection engineering and incident response.
Purple Teaming →Regulatory Evidence
PCI DSS, FFIEC, DORA, SOC 2. Documented and auditable.
Every SCYTHE campaign generates structured evidence for compliance teams, auditors, and board-level stakeholders.
Tabletop Exercises →Trusted at the Highest Level
SCYTHE is trusted by top 5 globally ranked financial institutions to validate the security controls protecting their most critical assets.
The world's largest and most scrutinized financial institutions don't take security vendors on faith. They validate. SCYTHE has been validated by the teams with the highest standards, the most demanding regulators, and the most sophisticated adversaries targeting them.
Talk to a SCYTHE adversary emulation specialist about your financial services environment.
EDR Validation SIEM Detection EngineeringAct Before You Need to React
The adversaries targeting your institution won't wait for your next audit cycle.
Financial institutions can't afford to find out their controls don't work during an actual breach. SCYTHE gives your team the ability to find out now, on your terms, continuously, with the evidence to prove it to anyone who asks.