Financial Services Security

Financial Services Cybersecurity
That Acts Before Incidents Happen

Trusted by leading banks and financial institutions.

270 days
Average threat dwell time in financial services
48–72h
Complete asset discovery with ORDR
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Customer Story

Veritex Bank: Detecting Threats Before the SOC Does

"See every asset. Understand real risk. Enforce protection safely, without disrupting transactions, customer experience, or uptime."

— Bob Ludecke, SVP & Chief Information Security Officer, Veritex Community Bank
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The ChallengeSee every asset. Understand real risk. Enforce protection safely, without disrupting transactions, customer experience, or uptime.
The SolutionVeritex needed visibility across a rapidly expanding environment of connected assets, from laptops and mobile devices to IP phones, surveillance systems, and operational technologies. Without a complete view, security gaps persisted across both IT and OT environments.
The Results
  • Detected and remediated threats before SOC notification
  • Accelerated incident response times
  • Identified unmanaged and vulnerable devices across IT, IoT, and OT
  • Automated asset discovery and classification workflows
  • Eliminated blind spots across the entire environment
The Challenge

The Financial Services Cybersecurity Challenge

Financial institutions operate where uptime, transaction integrity, and customer trust are non-negotiable. But as environments expand, risk grows faster than teams can act.

CategoryDetails
Incomplete Asset Inventory
  • Distributed branch infrastructure across IT and OT environments
  • Payment systems, ATMs, and kiosks running legacy platforms
  • Surveillance, building systems, and physical security devices
  • Cloud and SaaS applications are extending the attack surface
A Target-Rich Threat Landscape
  • Financial services remain one of the most targeted industries
  • Threats persist for months, not due to a lack of detection, but due to the inability to act safely
  • Unmanaged and legacy devices introduce continuous exposure
Relentless Compliance Requirements
  • SOX, GLBA, PCI-DSS, DORA, FFIEC, FINRA
  • Continuous audit expectations, not point-in-time validation
  • Increasing demand for provable, enforced controls
Why Teams Can't Act Fast Enough
  • Asset data that isn't trusted across teams
  • Disconnected tools requiring manual coordination
  • Policies defined but not enforced
  • Fear of disrupting critical financial operations
  • Manual remediation that slows response

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How ORDR Helps

How ORDR Secures Financial Services Environments

ORDR turns asset intelligence into safe, continuous enforcement so risk is addressed before it becomes an incident, without disrupting critical financial operations.

1. IDENTIFY: Complete Asset Intelligence

CapabilityDetails
Comprehensive Discovery
  • Passively discovers every IT, IoT, and OT device — no agents, no scanning
  • AI trained on 100M+ real-world devices classifies assets by type, function, and risk
  • Complete, trusted inventory across your entire environment
Deep Asset Context
  • Identifies device make, model, OS, software, and behavior
  • Maps how assets communicate across branches, data centers, and cloud
  • Understand not just what assets are, but what they do
Full Environment Visibility
  • Eliminate blind spots across IT, IoT, and OT
  • Full discovery in 48–72 hours with continuous real-time updates

2. ENFORCE: Zero Trust Segmentation Without Downtime

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Policy Generation & Validation
  • Builds segmentation policies from real traffic behavior
  • Simulates impact before enforcement
  • Eliminate the risk of breaking transactions or operations
Safe, Automated Segmentation
  • Deploys microsegmentation in days or weeks, not months
  • Continuously adapts policies as environments change
  • Move from exposure to protection, faster
Threat Containment
  • Isolates compromised endpoints and high-risk devices
  • Prevents lateral movement across the branch and core systems
  • Enforces least-privilege access across transaction environments
  • Stop threats before they impact customers or operations
Seamless Integration
  • Firewalls: Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point
  • Network Access Control: Cisco ISE, Aruba ClearPass, Forescout
  • SIEM/SOAR: Splunk, IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR
  • No rip-and-replace. Immediate value from existing investments

3. ORCHESTRATE: ORDR IQ Intelligence Layer

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AI-Powered Security Operations
  • Natural language access to asset intelligence and risk insights
  • Instantly generates reports, dashboards, and answers
  • Faster decisions without technical bottlenecks
Workflow Automation
  • Automatically creates tickets and orchestrates response actions
  • Connects insights directly to enforcement workflows
  • Reduce manual effort and accelerate response
Compliance Acceleration
  • Generates audit-ready reports for GLBA, PCI-DSS, SOX, and DORA
  • Provides continuous evidence of enforced controls
  • Turn compliance from a periodic effort into continuous proof
Compliance

Meeting Financial Services Compliance Requirements

Turn compliance from a periodic effort into continuous proof.

RegulationHow ORDR Helps
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)Continuous monitoring of device activity with enforced access controls across financial systems
GLBAComplete asset inventory and data flow mapping visibility with enforced safeguards for customer information
PCI-DSSSegmentation of cardholder data environments with continuous vulnerability monitoring and access enforcement
DORAReal-time ICT risk visibility, segmentation for resilience, and rapid incident detection and response
FFIECComprehensive asset identification, risk-based policy enforcement, and continuous audit logging

Compliance Outcome: Eliminate recurring audit findings by continuously enforcing controls, not just during audits. Replace manual evidence collection with real-time, audit-ready documentation.

Proven Results

Proven Results Across Financial Institution Deployments

Financial institutions using ORDR don't just gain visibility; they accelerate response times, reduce risk, and enforce continuous security.

OutcomeBefore ORDRWith ORDR
Incident ResponseManual device identification took hours; threats remained active during the investigationThreats detected and addressed before SOC notification; accelerated response time
Segmentation DeploymentTraditional segmentation projects took 12–24 monthsAI-generated, validated segmentation policies deployed in days or weeks
Audit PreparationManual evidence collection consumed significant compliance team timeAutomated compliance documentation with real-time audit reporting
Device DiscoveryIncomplete inventories missed IoT and OT devices, creating blind spots48–72 hour complete discovery with real-time updates
Threat Dwell Time270 days average before addressing detected threats48 hours from detection to containment with automated enforcement
Why ORDR

Why Financial Institutions Choose ORDR

DifferentiatorWhat It Means for Financial Institutions
Visibility to Enforcement in One PlatformMost platforms stop at detection. ORDR turns insight into validated, enforced action, all in one system.
Safe Enforcement Without DowntimePolicies are validated and simulated against real traffic before deployment
8+ Years of AI InnovationTrained on millions of real-world devices with years of production use
Proven at Enterprise ScaleTrusted by 500+ organizations across highly regulated industries

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