MDR for Financial Services

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Smarttech247 secures financial services and fintech platforms with 24/7 SOC coverage, DORA-aligned incident response, and detection built around the fraud, ransomware, and insider threats actually targeting the sector.

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OUR FINTECH AND BANKING CREDENTIALS

Coverage and Compliance Built for Finance

Round-the-clock monitoring, alignment to DORA, and support for ISO 27001, built into how we operate for financial services clients from day one.

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SOC coverage

DORA

Reporting support

ISO 27001

Framework alignment
By now, most organisations have already
suffered significant business impact.

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Select the frameworks your organisation is accountable to. See where they overlap, your strictest deadline, and what one unified programme saves you.
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DORA
Notify your regulator of a major ICT-related incident within 4 hours of classification.
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FINTECH AND BANKING THREAT LANDSCAPE

Why Fintech and Banking is a Target

Transaction volume, wire transfer authority, and a growing web of critical ICT third parties multiply the ways in. A financial institution with distributed systems and multiple regulatory obligations gives attackers more entry points, and gives you more places compliance can fall through.
Threat pattern
Ransomware groups increasingly target the managed file transfer (MFT) systems banks rely on to move sensitive data.
Why it matters for a financial institution
A single compromised MFT platform can expose transaction data and customer records across every connected institution, not just one.
Threat pattern
Executive impersonation fraud specifically targets the wire transfer authority sitting with finance teams and leadership.
Why it matters for a financial institution
A successful impersonation can authorise a fraudulent transfer before anyone questions it.
Regulatory pattern
DORA puts the compliance burden on every in-scope entity and its critical ICT third parties, not just head office.
Why it matters for a financial institution
A 4-hour major incident notification window doesn't allow time to write a policy document, it demands an operational capability that's already running.
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DORA Identity Security Requirements for Financial Services

Smarttech247 and SecurEnvoy discuss DORA, identity-focused threats in financial services and operational resilience requirements.
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HOW WE HELP

Our MDR for Fintech and Banking Capability

Analyst-led, not a black box. Direct access to experts who understand your systems during an investigation.

MDR for Identity

Account takeover and privileged access abuse are the fastest way into core banking and fintech platforms. We integrate directly with the identity platforms you already run.
Identity protection
Privilege abuse detection

Threat Intel

We track the ransomware and fraud groups who target financial services specifically, and feed it straight into your detection rules.
Ransomware tracking
Fraud & BEC tracking

Compliance

DORA, NIS2, and ISO 27001 obligations sit across every entity and critical ICT third party, not just head office. We help you evidence readiness across the group.
DORA
NIS2
ISO 27001
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CYBERSECURITY FOR FINTECH AND BANKING FAQs

Common Questions We Hear

How quickly can a regulated financial services firm go live with Smarttech247 MDR?

Most financial services clients are live within 5 to 10 days, working with the SIEM and EDR stack already in place rather than requiring a lengthy procurement or migration process. More complex environments involving multiple regulatory jurisdictions or legacy on-premises infrastructure are scoped individually during onboarding.

Can Smarttech247 support real-time fraud and transaction monitoring alongside MDR?

Our MDR service focuses on detecting and responding to security threats across your environment, and correlates identity, network, and endpoint signals that often intersect with fraud indicators, such as credential compromise ahead of a fraudulent transaction. Where a dedicated fraud detection platform is already in place, we integrate its alerts into the same investigation workflow rather than duplicating that capability.

How does Smarttech247 evidence third-party ICT risk oversight required under DORA?

DORA makes third-party ICT risk a direct board-level responsibility, not just a procurement checkbox. We monitor vendor and supplier activity inside your environment continuously and provide the documented evidence of oversight that examiners expect, rather than relying on point-in-time vendor questionnaires.

Which core banking, payments, or trading platforms can Smarttech247 monitor?

We are tool-agnostic and integrate with the SIEM, EDR, and identity platforms already in place across core banking, payments, and trading environments, including Microsoft, Splunk, IBM QRadar, CrowdStrike, and Google SecOps. There is no requirement to replace existing platform investments to bring them under 24/7 monitoring.

How does Smarttech247 support DORA's incident classification and reporting timelines in practice?

DORA requires major ICT incidents to be classified and reported to regulators within tight, defined timelines, starting with an initial notification within hours of detection. Our SOC applies structured incident classification from the moment an alert is confirmed, so the clock-sensitive reporting steps DORA requires are already underway rather than starting from a standing start.

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