Financial Services .
Banking, insurance and fintech — secure, compliant, customer-centric.
South African and pan-African financial institutions carry the heaviest regulatory and threat burden of any sector, while competing against digital-first entrants on speed. Our work concentrates on the three areas where that tension shows: detection and response capability, fraud and financial-crime analytics, and the data foundations that make both possible.
Regulatory context
- POPIA
- FICA
- PCI DSS
- Joint Standard 2 of 2024
- ISO 27001
Sector pressures we are asked to address
Continuous threat exposure
Financial services remain the most targeted sector on the continent, with credential-based intrusion and business email compromise leading the loss table.
Regulatory weight
POPIA, FICA, the Joint Standard on Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience, and PCI DSS all demand evidence, not intent.
Fragmented customer data
Legacy core systems and acquired books leave the single customer view incomplete, weakening both service and risk models.
Legacy core modernisation
Mainframe and monolithic core platforms constrain the pace at which new products can be launched.
What we deliver in this sector
Managed SOC and MDR
Round-the-clock detection and response tuned to financial-sector threat intelligence, with reporting suitable for board and regulator.
Fraud and AML analytics
Real-time scoring models for transaction fraud, application fraud and anti-money-laundering alerting, with tuning to control false positives.
Regulatory reporting automation
Automated, auditable reporting packs replacing manual spreadsheet consolidation.
Customer data platforms
Governed single customer view across core banking, digital channels and third-party sources.
Cyber resilience testing
Tabletop exercises, breach-and-attack simulation and recovery validation aligned to regulatory expectations.
Representative outcomes
Reduction in mean time to detect at a pan-African bank
Fraud recovered in the first 18 months at an insurer
Markets covered by a single managed SOC
Related practices
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