1. Banking IT Security: Risk Management, Critical Information Systems, and DORA/NIS2 Compliance. Protect your information systems, servers, business processes, and critical infrastructure with security compliant with DORA, NIS2, ACPR, AMF, and CNIL requirements. 2. Vulnerability Analysis, IT Security Audits, and ANSSI Compliance. Conduct IT security audits, identify security vulnerabilities, and manage remediation in accordance with ANSSI and PASSI frameworks, ISO standards, and internal policies. 3. Authentication, Access Management, and Enhanced Password Policy. Deploy access security solutions: authentication, password management, segmentation, security policies, and tools to combat cybercrime and incidents. 4. Digital Security Solutions: Encryption, Cryptography, and CNIL Compliance. Secure critical data flows and confidential information with encryption, cryptography, cloud access management, and GDPR/CNIL compliance solutions. 5. Monitoring, SOC, and Operational IT Security Management for the Bank: Implement a financial SOC, security monitoring, robust indicators, and dashboards tailored to the IT department, compliance, and senior management. 6. IT Risk Management and Monitoring of Cyberattacks/Malicious Operations: Benefit from an integrated risk management approach: vulnerability mapping, incident detection, and real-time analysis of attacks on the information system or via partners/service providers. 7. Raising User Awareness and Training Operational Staff in Cybersecurity: Lead information security awareness campaigns for employees, back offices, branches, business units, and partners to mitigate social engineering, phishing, and internal incidents. 8. Multi-Entity IT Security Policy: Harmonization, Information Security Policy, and Group Governance: Unify security policy, compliance, processes, and audits across subsidiaries, business units, IT, insurance, asset management, and digital banking. 9. Cloud security, connected devices/data, and critical digital infrastructure: Support your digital transformation (APIs, SaaS, hybrid cloud, wallets, fintech) with solutions for securing IT systems, infrastructure, connected devices, access management, and governance. 10. IT security audit, CIO/compliance reporting, and regulatory inspection preparation: Access customized audits, clear security reporting, regulatory document management, ACPR/AMF-ready questionnaires, action plans, and dashboards for IT security management.
Priority issues in the financial sector
In the financial sector, cybersecurity is much more than a technical issue: it is a condition for economic resilience and customer trust. With interconnected systems, increasing regulatory pressure, and high exposure to threats (fraud, phishing, ransomware, etc.), institutions must demonstrate a robust, compliant, and manageable cybersecurity posture.
Comply with regulatory requirements
(DORA, NIS2, ACPR, AMF) Prepare inspections, evidence, and remediation plans
Securing critical business processes
(Payment, credit, life insurance, customer tracking) Endpoints, data flows, portals, partners
Auditing and controlling third parties
(SaaS providers, service providers, external APIs) Cloud, CRM, call center, document management
Prevent fraud, intrusion, social engineering
Phishing, fake transfers, professional email compromise
Harmonizing security across professions, subsidiaries, or lines of business
Retail banking, professional banking, asset management, insurance, investment banking…
Promoting cybersecurity as a support for risk management and business continuity
Consistent indicators, comprehensive management
What this course allows you to pilot
Strategy & Governance
Proposed actions
Cybersecurity/risk/compliance alignment, multi-entity information security policy, group information security committee
Business value
Unites the IT security, risk and compliance departments in a common vision
Risks & Compliance
Proposed actions
Support and compliance auditing (DORA, GDPR, SWIFT...)
Risk Management Plan
Business value
Reduce your cybersecurity and compliance risks
Architecture & SecOps
Proposed actions
Review of critical IT scope, environment separation, key/secret management
Business value
Strengthens the security foundations without interfering with business processes
Cyber Defense Operations
Proposed actions
Financial SOC with regulated KPIs, internal/external fraud detection
Business value
Improves responsiveness and internal reporting to the security management
Incident & Crisis
Proposed actions
DORA/NIS2/27001 Playbook: Insurance/Banking/Subsidiary-Oriented Simulation Playbook
Business value
Prepare all levels in case of a crisis (IT, legal, customer)
Resilience
Proposed actions
Financial business continuity plans, inter-IT dependencies, hybrid cloud disaster recovery
Business value
Ensures business continuity with regulatory consistency
Cyber culture
Proposed actions
Professional workshops: fraud, advisors, mobility, agency/headquarters staff
Business value
Anchoring safety reflexes in all company channels
For whom?
Retail banks or cooperatives
Payment issuers, related services (wallets, aggregators)
Insurers, reinsurers, mutuals, life insurance
Supervised Fintechs (ACPR, AMF, MICA…)
Asset managers, investment advisors, brokerage firms
Multi-site/multi-market financial groups (banking, insurance, property and casualty divisions…)
Finance Course Content
Regulatory & Strategic Diagnostic Phase
- Identification of critical business areas
- DORA/NIS2/ACPR Compliance Assessment
- IT & cyber maturity that can be managed by the department
premium services
Finance-oriented SOC
Fraud detection, account bounce, VPN, dormant account, Shadow IT
DORA/NIS2 File
Mapping, gap analysis, GDPR remediation / Reversibility / Resilience
Cyber culture distance & agency
Targeted modules for back-office staff, managers, and business units
Cybersecurity crisis support
Simulation of the CFO, CIO, compliance, and subsidiary
Monitoring of IT security indicators / Risks / Compliance
Creation of a shared business/security dashboard
- Reduce exposure to structural threats (fraud, ransomware, 'bank' phishing)
- Involve all stakeholders: CSP / compliance / tech / legal / client
- Aligning information security with your modern projects: cloud, DevOps, API security, hybrid workforce
- Prepare for regulatory audits or inspections without having to rebuild everything
- Structuring cybersecurity as a component of risk strategy
A compliance + pragmatism approach
Use Cases
Situation encountered
- Targeted attacks on customer information systems
- Cloud projects without a clear trajectory
- Requests issued by the risk management department
- Potentially vulnerable third parties
- Lack of a comprehensive crisis strategy
Our contribution
- A cross-disciplinary business-tech approach for the rapid detection of weak signals
- SecNumCloud / DORA alignment / GDPR legal assurance
- Technical reading translated into readable and traceable metrics
- Monitoring tools, third-party risk mapping & SaaS API
- Alignment of prohibitions and the structure of activatable responses
Practical details
Duration
6 to 18 months depending on scope (Holding / BU / if centralized functions)
Delivery method
comprehensive or phased projects: banking, insurance, asset management
Areas covered
Core banking, ERP, M365, Private/public/hybrid cloud, ESB/API, Salesforce
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