Zero Trust for Financial Services.
Zero Trust architecture for financial services — engineered against NIST 800-207 zero-trust architecture, DORA regulatory technical standards, FFIEC operational resilience expectations, and the gradual retirement of network-perimeter trust models.
Drivers in financial services
- DORA RTS operational resilience requirements
- NIST 800-207 zero-trust architecture alignment
- FFIEC operational resilience expectations
- OMB M-22-09 for financial services federal contractors
Regulations this combination must satisfy.
- DORA
- NIST 800-207
- FFIEC IT Handbook
- NYDFS Part 500
- SS1/21 (UK FCA)
Patterns we actually ship for financial services.
- Pattern · 01
Identity-pillar maturity assessment + 18-month roadmap
- Pattern · 02
Conditional access policy engineering tied to risk signal
- Pattern · 03
Application-layer micro-segmentation replacing legacy DMZ trust
- Pattern · 04
Continuous trust evaluation rather than session-establishment trust
Common questions.
How does DORA affect zero-trust design?+
DORA RTS requires identity-pillar controls (strong authentication, access management, identity-related threat detection) plus operational resilience for ICT third-party providers. Zero-trust architecture is the natural baseline.
Do banks need full zero-trust before regulators expect it?+
Maturity is what regulators look for. A documented identity-pillar roadmap with measurable progress beats a partial implementation called "zero-trust." We define maturity per NIST 800-207 pillars and report progress quarterly.
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