Identity security for financial services

A service account from a 2018 core banking migration still has full control over the policy that configures your payment processing servers. Contractors created it, its documentation went with an archived SharePoint site, and nobody knows what depends on it. Your last two auditors flagged it. It's still there.

Decades of M&A have layered directory on directory, with thousands of service accounts behind trading, wire transfer and customer-facing systems. SOX, PCI DSS, FFIEC and NYDFS all expect least privilege, but nobody can say what "least" looks like for an account that authenticates to 14 systems across 3 directories.

The audit gap

SOX Section 404 requires documented internal controls over financial reporting systems. PCI DSS 4.0 requires least privilege and regular access reviews. FFIEC guidance calls for continuous monitoring of privileged access, and NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 requires risk-based access controls and audit trails.

Your tools find the problems. What they don't produce is evidence that each finding was investigated, simulated, fixed and verified, so auditors see the same critical findings every quarter. Nobody fixes them because nobody can see the blast radius.

GraphnAI doesn't map findings to framework controls or certify compliance. It gives you the evidence behind each finding.

Close findings, and prove it

Simulate before you remediate with Select Fire™

Run the removal of that 2018 account as a what-if on your live graph first, and see who loses access and what it stops reaching. The Operational Safety Metric turns that blast radius into a number your change board can read. Then pick how it runs. Safe mode gives you a script, Semi-Auto waits for your click, and Full-Auto runs only what has earned it.

Prove least privilege against peers

Over-Permission Analytics compares each identity with its peers in the same domain, department and title. A Treasury Operations service account with far more permissions than similar accounts gets a deviation score, weighted by permission severity, and a breakdown of what drives the gap. Show it to an auditor, or export it to CSV for your access review.

Separate real exposure from theoretical noise with Tiered Fidelity™

Every access path carries an evidence tier. A Theoretical path is configured, and nothing else has been checked. A Constrained path has had a control, such as a disabled account, checked against it. A Validated path has been seen in use in your sign-in events. That tells you which findings to fix today and which you can defer, with evidence.

Detect identity attacks aimed at financial systems

The detection engine raises alerts for brute force against treasury admins, password spray on the mortgage team, Kerberoasting against service accounts on SWIFT gateway servers, and DCSync requests. Each alert shows the identity behind it, whether it's Tier 0, and how many attack paths lead from it to Tier 0. It needs a collector that forwards your domain controllers' Windows security events.

Keep a record of every change

Every action GraphnAI runs goes into the remediation ledger with its before and after values, who or what authorized it, and its safety score. Entries are kept for two years, and you can undo most verified changes from the same screen.

M&A and inherited complexity

Acquisitions bring directories, trusts and delegation chains that nobody mapped. One Identity Bridge syncs several domains and forests, and it only dials out, so you open no inbound firewall ports. GraphnAI draws every trust in the graph and flags the ones that let an attacker escalate from one forest into another. Critical junctions rank the accounts where many attack paths meet, including paths that cross trusts.