Financial Services & FinTech Security Architecture
Helping retail banks, challenger fintechs, and asset managers meet rigorous regulatory requirements while maintaining low-latency, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure across the UK, EU, and Middle East.
Regulatory Readiness & Secure Cloud Scale
DORA Compliance (Articles 9-11)
Design and deploy centralized logging pipelines that fulfill European Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) ICT risk management, incident classification, and multi-year log retention mandates.
PCI DSS v4.0 Cloud Alignment
Isolate cardholder data environments (CDE) in AWS and Azure using micro-segmentation, hardened Kubernetes clusters, and automated continuous posture checks with Wiz and Tenable.
High-Volume SIEM Cost Control
Migrate transaction, API gateway, and core banking logs from Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk to Google SecOps. Cut ingestion costs by 35-50% while unlocking sub-second fraud investigation queries.
UK Challenger Bank: Sentinel to Google SecOps Migration
Faced with unpredictable cloud billing surges exceeding £420k/year in Microsoft Sentinel, this UK-regulated institution needed to cut telemetry storage overhead while maintaining strict FCA audit records across 42 disparate log sources.
How We Work with Financial Engineering Teams
Fractional vCISO Advisory
Board-level risk governance, regulatory liaison support for FCA and ECB audits, vendor risk assessments, and ISO 27001 / SOC 2 certification leadership.
Designed for mid-market banks and fintechs requiring executive security direction without the overhead of a full-time executive hire.
Hands-On Architecture & IaC Guardrails
Direct implementation of Terraform modules, AWS Control Tower SCPs, Azure Policies, and Google Cloud Organization policies.
All intellectual property, automated scripts, and runbooks are transferred directly to your internal engineering team with zero vendor lock-in.