FINRA books-and-records
All electronic communications captured, indexed, and retained per 17a-4.
Financial services organizations operate under a layered set of obligations: data protection rules from regulators, security expectations from their insurers and custodians, uptime expectations from their customers, and internal controls driven by their auditors. All of those have to be reflected in the infrastructure, and all of them have to be demonstrable on request.
We work with community banks, credit unions, registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, insurance brokerages, and wealth-management firms. The shared pattern is the need for tight access controls, detailed audit trails, segregated environments for regulated data, and recovery plans that can be evidenced to examiners.
All electronic communications captured, indexed, and retained per 17a-4.
Encryption, identity governance, and incident response aligned to safeguards and red-flags rules.
Network segmentation and quarterly ASV scans that keep the CDE small and documented.
Quarterly cyber risk reports your board can actually read — mapped to NIST CSF.
Every financial-services engagement starts with a control baseline aligned to the frameworks most commonly referenced by examiners in the sector: FFIEC CAT, NIST CSF, and SOC 2. That baseline covers segmentation of regulated data, encrypted storage and transmission, logging with retention windows matched to regulatory expectations, privileged access controls with break-glass procedures, and documented incident response with notification pathways.
Our team includes engineers who have operated in your vertical. We speak your auditors' language.