Cybersecurity for financial services that holds up under a regulator’s exam.
Z Cyber is your cybersecurity operating partner for banks, fintechs, insurers, and asset managers. Our security advisors run your program on the Glance platform, map your controls to NYDFS 500, GLBA, PCI DSS, and the SEC disclosure rule, answer the security due diligence your customers send, and remediate the risks we find. Not just inventory them.
- ●Annual NYDFS certification packet filed · 1h ago
- ●Vendor reassessed: payments processor · 4h ago
- ●Risk added: AI underwriting model pending review
- ●Customer security DDQ returned · 284 controls
WHAT WE HEAR
The pressure financial-services security teams are under.
Overlapping regulators and enterprise due diligence turn every control into an audit question. See what a clean SOC 2 actually takes in 2026.
“NYDFS wants a CISO report and a 72-hour notification process. We have neither documented.”
How Z Cyber answers it
A NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 program: CISO reporting to the board, the § 500.17 72-hour notification workflow, and annual certification evidence, run for you on Glance.
“Every enterprise deal stalls on a 300-question security questionnaire and a SOC 2 request.”
How Z Cyber answers it
An evidence library that answers SOC 2, PCI DSS, and customer due-diligence questionnaires in 48 hours, so your sales cycle does not wait on compliance.
“Our PCI scope creeps every year and the QSA finds the same gaps we thought we closed.”
How Z Cyber answers it
PCI DSS v4.0 scoped to your cardholder-data environment, with all twelve requirements tracked continuously, not reconstructed the week before the assessment.
GLANCE FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES
Everything you need to run a defensible financial-services security program.
Glance is the platform Z Cyber operates on your behalf. Whether you have a CISO already, are between security leaders, or do not have one yet, we handle the work and your team sees the same single source of truth.
NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 program
The full Part 500: risk assessment (§ 500.9), CISO designation and board reporting (§ 500.4), multi-factor authentication (§ 500.12), the 72-hour incident notification (§ 500.17), and annual certification. Class A Company enhancements where they apply to you.
GLBA Safeguards Rule
The FTC Safeguards Rule run as a living program: the qualified individual, a written information security program, and the security-event notification obligations, mapped into the same control set as everything else.
PCI DSS v4.0
All twelve requirements scoped to your cardholder-data environment, tracked continuously and evidenced for your QSA or self-assessment questionnaire. Scope reduction advised, so you are not securing more of your network than you have to.
SEC cyber disclosure readiness
Regulation S-K Item 106 governance disclosure and the Form 8-K Item 1.05 four-business-day materiality process, documented and rehearsed before an incident forces the question on a deadline.
Third-party and vendor risk
Vendor inventory, outbound security questionnaires, and continuous scoring for the fintech, data, and cloud providers in your stack. Concentration and fourth-party exposure surfaced, the area examiners probe first.
Risk register to remediation
Risk register framed in financial-impact and customer-trust language, not a raw scan. Prioritized mitigation with evidence captured as the work progresses, ready for examiners, your carrier, and the board.
Cyber insurance readiness
A live readiness score across the controls carriers underwrite for financial institutions, MFA, EDR, backups, incident response, privileged access, and more, each with an evidence-confidence rating. Your broker gets a carrier-grade report, and renewal stops being a fire drill.
See the readiness model →THE PLATFORM
See the platform we run your program on. Multi-tenant architecture, a financial-services risk library, and the evidence engine behind every customer questionnaire and regulatory certification.
- CRITMFA not enforced for privileged core-banking accessNYDFS § 500.12Remediating
- CRITCardholder data retained beyond defined windowPCI DSS Req 3.2Open
- HIGHNo security-event notification runbook for DFSNYDFS § 500.17Open
- HIGHVendor SOC 2 lapsed for data aggregatorGLBA Safeguards § 314.4(f)Remediating
- MEDAnnual penetration test overdueNYDFS § 500.5Resolved
- LOWAudit-log retention below policy on dev tierPCI DSS Req 10.5Resolved
PROGRAM READINESS
One score, defensible at exam
A live readiness score across NYDFS 500, GLBA and PCI DSS your board and an examiner can both follow.
FRAMEWORK COVERAGE
Answer once, map everywhere
NYDFS, PCI DSS, GLBA, SOC 2 and FFIEC CAT satisfied from a single control set.
EVIDENCE ENGINE
Captured as the work happens
Certifications, vendor reviews and DDQ responses logged automatically, so the next exam is already documented.
PROGRAM READINESS
One score, defensible at exam
A live readiness score across NYDFS 500, GLBA and PCI DSS your board and an examiner can both follow.
FRAMEWORK COVERAGE
Answer once, map everywhere
NYDFS, PCI DSS, GLBA, SOC 2 and FFIEC CAT satisfied from a single control set.
EVIDENCE ENGINE
Captured as the work happens
Certifications, vendor reviews and DDQ responses logged automatically, so the next exam is already documented.
ONE CONTROL SET, EVERY FRAMEWORK
Answer once. Map to every regulator and framework you report to.
THE GLANCE CONTROL SET
One evidence base, maintained continuously.
Update a control once and every regulation and framework it maps to updates with it. No re-answering the same question for your examiner, your QSA, your insurer, and every enterprise customer that runs due diligence.
NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500
NY DFS Cybersecurity Regulation
GLBA Safeguards Rule
FTC 16 CFR Part 314
SEC Cyber Disclosure
Reg S-K Item 106 / Form 8-K 1.05
PCI DSS v4.0
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
FFIEC CAT
Cybersecurity Assessment Tool
CIS Controls v8
Center for Internet Security
SOC 2
Trust Services Criteria
NIST CSF 2.0
Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover
RISK TO REMEDIATION
We close the gaps we find. Not just catalog them.
Most compliance tools stop at a findings list. Z Cyber runs the full loop, from the risk we surface to the evidence your next exam and your next enterprise deal both need.
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Identify
Risks surfaced from your environment and your regulatory profile, not a generic checklist
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Prioritize
Ranked by financial impact, customer-data exposure, and regulatory deadline
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Remediate
Our security advisors drive the fix, with you
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Evidence
Proof captured as the work happens, mapped to the rule it satisfies
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Audit-ready
Examiners, your QSA, customers, and carriers get one answer
HOW WE PARTNER
Operating partner, not a deck and a deliverable.
Z Cyber embeds a forward-deployed security team into your institution, runs your program every day on Glance, and stays accountable to outcomes your board, your examiners, and your CFO can read.
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Scope
Thirty to sixty minutes. We size the engagement to your charter and regulators, NYDFS, GLBA, SEC, your card footprint, and your near-term pressure points, an exam, an enterprise procurement review, or an insurance renewal.
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Implement
Weeks one to four. We stand up your Glance tenant, run your risk assessment, scope your PCI cardholder-data environment, inventory your vendors, populate your evidence library, and configure your risk register in financial-impact language.
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Operate
Continuous. We answer incoming security due diligence, drive remediation across your risk register, maintain audit-ready evidence, and keep your policy, exception, and certification packages current.
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Improve
Quarterly. We deliver the CISO report your board and NYDFS expect, recalibrate priorities, and produce the attestation packets your examiners, QSA, enterprise customers, and insurer actually accept.
FINANCIAL SERVICES READING
Talk to an advisor, or read up first.
SOC 2 Compliance: The 2026 Guide
What enterprise buyers and examiners expect, and how to get to a clean Type II report without a year of fire drills.
Read more →SOC 2 Type II vs Type I
Which report you actually need to win the deal, and what the observation period really involves.
Read more →AI Governance for Financial Services
Underwriting, fraud, and customer-facing models, governed against NIST AI RMF and your existing controls.
Read more →Cyber Insurance Readiness Guide
What carriers require before they renew a financial institution, and how to be ready before the questionnaire arrives.
Read more →FREQUENTLY ASKED
Questions worth answering up front.
Which regulations actually apply to us?
Can you handle the security questionnaires our enterprise customers and partners send?
How do you handle the NYDFS 72-hour notification requirement?
We are a fintech, not a bank. Do these rules still reach us?
Do you support PCI DSS scope reduction, not just assessment?
How does Z Cyber engage with us?
Make your next exam, and your next enterprise deal, a non-event.
Tell us your regulators and your next deadline. A Z Cyber advisor walks through where you stand against NYDFS 500, GLBA, PCI DSS, and the SEC disclosure rule, within one business day.