Financial Services Cybersecurity
AI-powered cyber risk management to safeguard customer data, build trust and simplify compliance
Key cybersecurity challenges for financial services
The attack surface is spiraling out of control
As financial services organizations embrace new technologies and evolve business processes and customer experiences, the digital attack surface continues to expand at an alarming rate. Identifying and securing all IT assets across expansive, distributed environments remains a challenge. A proactive risk management approach is required, one that reduces cyber risk with continuous discovery, real-time assessments, and automated mitigation across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments.
With Trend Vision OneTM you can:
- Gain unparalleled visibility of your attack surface with an integrated protection portfolio and broad ecosystem of purposebuilt and API-driven third-party integrations covering multiple sensor types including endpoint, mobile, server, network, cloud, email, identity, and more.
- Continiously identify and consolidate your assets and attack vectors, as well as automatically assess, prioritize, and mitigate the risks associated with your attack surface.
- Improve risk posture with built-in zero trust and complete Attack Surface Risk Management (ASRM) capabilities.
Simplify compliance without compromising security
The financial sector must not only safeguard customer data, but also adhere to stringent security and data protection laws. Compliance with regulations such as the GDPR, PSD2, NIS2 and DORA is non-negotiable. While DORA’s scope is focused specifically on financial institutions and their IT partners, NIS2’s is broader, applying to “essential and important entities” which also include financial services. Both broadly aim to enhance IT risk management and resilience, although NIS2 is transposed into local law so will differ between countries. With legislation continuing to become more prescriptive, a proactive and dynamic risk management platform can help harden defenses and ease compliance.
Trend Vision One simplifies compliance obligations with:
- ASRM workflows that automate and accelerate security and compliance tasks, boosting efficiency
- Centralized policy management to ensure strong zero trust network access for secure operations
- AI-powered detection technology to quickly identify and contain attacks, bolstered by automated monitoring and response capabilities
AI for cybersecurity and cybersecurity for AI
Whether you’re building or adopting AI technology, we secure your AI journey while defending against AI-driven fraud and threat activity. With over two decades of AI innovation, Trend anticipates and builds for the next big technology evolution to ensure security teams stay ahead with state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions. As the OWASP Top 10 most critical vulnerabilities seen in Large Language Models (LLMs) outlines, Generative AI applications are also being targeted. Trend helps customers mitigate risks outlined in the document, including Prompt Injection and Sensitive Information Disclosure. Key Trend technology helps to prevent abuse and control usage of LLMs.
With Trend Vision One, you can
- Confidently and securely embrace AI innovation, whilst staying ahead of AI-driven fraud and threat activity.
- Protect identities, data, cloud assets, and more with efficient AI-driven security coverage, optimized user experiences, and powerful automations.
- Empower analysts at all levels to accelerate productivity and keep adversaries out with our powerful AI-assistant Trend Companion.
Cloud migration without cloud security risk
Cloud computing offers financial services organizations unparalleled IT scalability, flexibility and agility. But migration introduces a fresh set of security challenges. For example, the Dutch National Bank [PM1] [HA2] mandates thorough bidirectional inspection of all sensitive (PII) documents shared with partners. Implementing such processes in a cloud-native manner without creating bottlenecks is a challenge. But it can’t be ignored. The shared responsibility model means both finance organizations and cloud service providers must invest heavily in cybersecurity. From data encryption to access controls, financial services organizations must deploy a multi-layered strategy to realize their cloud vision, without compromising on security.
Trend Vision One™ helps to secure your distributed cloud environment, enabling your organization to:
- Gain comprehensive visibility, prioritze risk, and automate response across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Advance security from data centers to cloud workloads, applications, and cloud-native architectures, with platform-based protection, risk management, and multi-cloud detection and response
- Shift from disconnected point products to unparalleled breadth and depth of capabilities including CSPM, CNAPP, CWP, CIEM, EASM, and more.
Lifting the security burden of legacy and end-of-life systems
Legacy and end-of-life (EoL) systems are often the backbone of financial services IT operations. But their exposure to new vulnerability exploits and inability to seamlessly integrate with modern infrastructure tools present a formidable security and compliance risk. There may be important operational and regulatory reasons for continuing to run these systems. But these must not come at the expense of cybersecurity. The challenge is to fortify legacy and EoL environments without negatively impacting customer experience or business goals. Trend virtual patching functionality helps to mitigate risk, enhance operational resilience and extend the life of legacy and EoL systems.
Trend Vision One consolidates security onto a single platform to offer:
- Comprehensive protection across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments, including legacy and EoL systems.
- Automated risk-based patch management to proactively keep legacy systems fortified against emerging threats.
- Extended detection and response (XDR) to rapidly detect and contain threats to legacy systems.
Additional resources
Red Teaming
Chapter IV, Articles 24 to 27 of the DORA regulation requires financial services organizations to establish a risk-oriented, proportional testing program aimed at assessing their ability to respond to IT security incidents.
Trend Micro offers an industry leading Red Teaming and Purple Teaming service. Red Teaming is a structured process that emulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of threat actors to comprehensively assess an organization’s security defenses. Unlike conventional penetration testing, which focuses on identifying specific vulnerabilities, Red Teaming takes a holistic, threat intel based approach, encompassing people, processes, and technology.
Contact us to learn more about our comprehensive services.
Lucas Van Den Berg,
Sr. Manager Europe Incident Response and Red team
Why Trend Micro as a partner for financial services?
Experience
We protect over 500,000 commercial customers globally, including 9 of the top 10 Fortune Global 500 banks as well as other large financial organizations such as Santalucía Group, Bathgate Group and Immedis. We help overcome complex cybersecurity challenges on a daily basis, building resilience against the latest and most advanced attacks.
A platform technology strategy
Rated a leader by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, our AI-powered cybersecurity platform is continually evolving to address attack surface risk across your enterprise. Our expansive protection portfolio and broad ecosystem of purposebuilt and API-driven third-party integrations can be combined or used as standalone services, allowing you to meet your requirements where and when you need to.
Global leader
Trend Micro™ Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI) is the leader in global vulnerability research and discovery since 2007. ZDI is the industry’s largest agnostic bug bounty program, disclosing 60% of verified vulnerabilities worldwide in 2023. Trend customers had an average of 96 days preemptive protection ahead of vendor patch in 2023.
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