FINANCIAL SERVICES

Prove your defenses hold to DORA, NYDFS, and the SEC, continuously, not once a year.

SIEGE runs as a persistent adversary against your environment, emulating the financially-motivated and nation-state actors that target banks, insurers, and capital markets. It produces the dated, repeatable evidence DORA Threat-Led Penetration Testing, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, and SEC 10-K Item 106(b) disclosure require, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and ranked by real exploitability.

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THE ATTACK PATH

This is how the breach actually happens.

FIG.01: ADVERSARY PATH / FINANCIAL SERVICESAGENT ACTIVE

The route from an exposed edge service to your payment core. SIEGE maps it before an adversary walks it.

THE THREAT

Who's actually coming for you.

The actors targeting financial institutions are among the most capable and best-resourced in the world. SIEGE emulates how they actually operate, as documented in CISA and FS-ISAC reporting.

FIN7 · e-crime

Financially-Motivated Crews

Organized e-crime groups chain phishing, valid-account abuse, and lateral movement to reach payment systems and customer data. SIEGE replays these TTPs against your controls to prove what actually stops them.

Lazarus · DPRK

Nation-State Heists

State-sponsored groups have stolen hundreds of millions from financial institutions by targeting SWIFT and transfer infrastructure. SIEGE pressure-tests the exact paths to your transaction systems.

T1486 · Ransomware

Double-Extortion Ransomware

Ransomware operators exfiltrate before they encrypt. SIEGE validates segmentation and detection along the path before encryption, where it still matters.

THE MANDATE

Every framework asks the same question. SIEGE answers it once.

Each mandate below asks, in its own language, whether you can prove your defenses work. SIEGE produces the evidence one time and maps the result to each framework your examiners use.

Mandate	Requirement	SIEGE Evidence
DORA Art. 26	Threat-Led Penetration Testing (TLPT)	Intelligence-led adversary emulation with dated, repeatable reports
DORA Art. 24–25	Digital operational resilience testing	Continuous control-validation evidence
NYDFS 500.05	Penetration testing & vulnerability assessment	Annual plus continuous adversarial validation
SEC 10-K Item 106(b)	Risk management & strategy disclosure	Year-round material-risk evidence, not a snapshot
PCI DSS 4.0 Req 11.4	Segmentation & penetration testing	Proven exploit paths and segmentation validation

THE PROOF

Built under DARPA. Validated by DoD.

When SIEGE confirms your defenses hold, that finding carries the weight of the DARPA CASTLE program and operational validation across DoD and U.S. Government environments. For your board, your examiners, and your customers, it is the most credible statement of resilience a financial institution can present, proof, not posture.

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THE MATH

The cost of finding out the hard way.

$6.08M

Average cost of a data breach in the financial industry, among the highest of any sector.

DORA penalties can reach 2% of total annual worldwide turnover for serious non-compliance.

Year-round

SEC 10-K Item 106(b) expects continuous risk evidence, not a once-a-year pen test.

Sources: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024; EU Regulation 2022/2554 (DORA); SEC Final Rule 33-11216.

FREQUENTLY ASKED

Questions teams ask before a SIEGE engagement.

What is DORA Threat-Led Penetration Testing (TLPT) and does it apply to us?

DORA (the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act) requires significant financial entities to perform Threat-Led Penetration Testing, intelligence-led adversary emulation against live production systems, on a regular cycle. SIEGE performs continuous, intelligence-led adversary emulation and produces the dated, repeatable evidence TLPT and DORA's broader resilience-testing requirements expect.

How does SIEGE help with SEC cyber disclosure and NYDFS requirements?

SIEGE generates year-round, material-risk evidence that supports SEC 10-K Item 106(b) risk-management disclosure, plus the continuous penetration-testing and certification evidence behind NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500. Instead of a once-a-year snapshot, you hold current proof your controls work.

Is SIEGE safe to run against production banking systems?

Yes. SIEGE assesses in simulated or mirrored environments and never touches production systems, so transaction processing and customer services stay online with no disruption.

Why is SIEGE more credible than a standard penetration test for financial regulators?

SIEGE was built under the DARPA CASTLE program and validated across DoD and U.S. Government environments, runs continuously rather than annually, and maps every finding to MITRE ATT&CK, giving examiners provenance and currency a point-in-time pen test can't match.

See SIEGE map a path through a bank like yours.

Twenty minutes. We'll walk a real attack path to a payment core and show you the evidence your examiners ask for, no slideware.

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