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Who we work with

  • Banks, building societies, and lenders
  • Payment service providers and organisations handling card data
  • Fintechs building digital products and platforms
  • Insurers and brokers with complex supplier ecosystems
  • Internal security, risk, and compliance teams running assurance programmes 

Why this sector is different

Finance is built on identity, trust, and availability. Attackers focus on the areas where that trust can be abused, such as account access, payments, privileged access, and third party integrations. Even when the technical issue is small, the impact can be large because fraud and disruption scale quickly in high volume systems.

Finance also has a higher bar for how testing is conducted. Many organisations need objective based testing under recognised frameworks, clear reporting, and evidence that controls work in practice, not just that policies exist. 

Working in regulated environments

Some finance testing has to meet strict assurance expectations. Using recognised frameworks and accredited delivery helps ensure work is properly authorised, governed, and defensible, with outputs that stand up to scrutiny. PTP’s CREST listing and regulator driven red teaming content describe this regulated approach. 

Where we focus

Regulator driven red teaming

Where organisations need deeper assurance, we deliver intelligence led, objective based red teaming under recognised frameworks such as CBEST, GBEST, STAR FS, and TIBER. This is designed to test real attacker behaviour end to end, including the defensive and response processes that matter when incidents happen.

Customer channels, mobile, and APIs

We test online and mobile banking style platforms, customer account areas, and APIs that support authentication, authorisation, and sensitive data access. This includes the issues that drive real loss in finance: broken access control, weak session handling, insecure workflows, and trust problems between services.

Payments and PCI assurance

We support organisations that need to validate secure handling of card data under PCI DSS. This includes PCI ROC Level 1 assessments, delivered and signed off by a Qualified Security Assessor, and PCI SAQ support where appropriate.

We also help with practical scoping and de scoping so that the cardholder data environment is correctly bounded and compliance effort is focused where it reduces real risk.

Cloud and modern platform risk

Financial services infrastructure increasingly sits on cloud platforms and complex automation. We test cloud deployments and supporting services with an attacker mindset, focusing on misconfiguration, identity and access paths, secrets exposure, and the practical routes that lead to compromise

Incident readiness and response

When an incident hits a financial organisation, speed and evidence matter. An incident response retainer removes commercial and legal delays by agreeing the paperwork up front, so response can begin immediately when you call.