Identity that survives the FFIEC exam.
IGA, PAM, and zero-trust programs for retail banks, custody banks, brokers, and asset managers. FFIEC, GLBA, SOX, and SOC 2 aligned.
- FFIEC
- GLBA
- SOX
- SOC 2
- NIST 800-53
- PCI-DSS
Use cases we have shipped in financial services.
- Use case · 01
Entitlement reviews and access certifications
Quarterly campaigns scoped by risk and SOX-relevant role. Reviewer fatigue engineered out — only the access that matters reaches a human approver.
- Use case · 02
Privileged session governance
Vaulting, brokering, and recording for production data stores, trading systems, and core banking platforms. Aligned to FFIEC IT Examination Handbook expectations.
- Use case · 03
Customer IAM with fraud-tier authentication
Risk-adaptive MFA, device-trust signals, and step-up auth for retail and wealth platforms. Fraud-loss reduction modeled at the policy level.
- Use case · 04
Zero-trust pilot for production access
Identity-aware access for production engineering paths — replacing always-on VPN with just-in-time, audited brokered sessions.
- Use case · 05
Service account and secret hygiene
Discovery, vaulting, and rotation cadence for the long tail of service accounts and embedded secrets across legacy and modern stacks.
- Use case · 06
Acquisition-cadence identity merging
M&A integration playbook for identity systems — directory consolidation, attribute reconciliation, and right-sized access by close-date.
- Use case · 07
Open Banking customer consent
OAuth 2.1, FAPI, and consent dashboards for FDX-aligned data-sharing programs. Audit-ready evidence for regulator inquiries.
The buyer archetypes we have shipped programs for.
We hold NDA on most engagements. Tiers below reflect the buyer archetypes we have shipped programs for. References available on request, after mutual NDA.
- TB
Tier-1 US Bank
FFIEC · SOX
- CB
Custody Bank
GLBA · FFIEC
- FA
Federal Agency
FedRAMP High
- SS
State System
StateRAMP
- HS
Top-10 Hospital
HIPAA · HITRUST
- HP
Health Payer
HIPAA
- FP
FinTech Platform
PCI-DSS · SOC 2
- AM
Asset Manager
SOX · SOC 2
Practices that anchor this industry.
Common questions.
Do you have direct experience with FFIEC IT Examination handbook expectations?+
Yes — every IAM program we deliver in financial services is mapped to the FFIEC IT Examination Handbook (Information Security and Authentication & Access to Financial Institution Services and Systems booklets). Our deliverables include the control mapping artifacts your auditors will request directly.
Can you align our IAM evidence with SOX 404 and SOC 2 simultaneously?+
Yes. We engineer evidence-as-code so the same control test produces artifacts mapped to FFIEC, SOX 404 ITGC, and SOC 2 CC-series controls. Auditors get reusable evidence; your team does the work once per cycle, not three times.
How do you handle access for trading desks and high-stakes production systems?+
Trading-desk access requires real-time, risk-adaptive policy with extremely short blast radius. We design just-in-time elevation flows with named approvers, time-bounded sessions, and recording — without disrupting the trading workflow. Pilot scope is typically a single desk before broader rollout.
Do you support open banking and customer consent platforms?+
Yes. We have shipped FAPI-aligned customer consent and OAuth 2.1 platforms for retail and wealth institutions. The work intersects with our Customer Identity practice — Auth0, Okta CIC, and ForgeRock are the most common stacks.
What is a typical engagement timeline for a tier-2 bank?+
8-week diagnostic + reference architecture, then 12-to-16-week build for the first audit-scope workflow. Audit-ready evidence by month 6 for the in-scope program; broader rollout follows on a quarterly cadence.
Ready to scope a financial services engagement?
Same-day reply during business hours. NDA on request before discovery.