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Operational resilience you can actually evidence

Financial services is now regulated on resilience, not just security. DORA, NIS2 and national operational-resilience regimes all ask the same underlying question: can you show that you understand your important business services, the ICT and third parties they depend on, and what happens when those fail? HexaShield produces that evidence as a by-product of operating.

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17 Jan 2025
DORA application date
ICT risk, incident reporting, resilience testing and third-party oversight became directly applicable across the EU.
Where we are brought in

Three problems we are asked to solve in financial services

Trust is the product. A security event is not only an operational problem, it is a supervisory conversation, a client conversation and a board conversation, usually in that order. These are the three situations we are most often brought in on.

01

You can describe your resilience but you cannot evidence it on demand

GRC
The problem

Operational resilience is now a supervisory expectation rather than an internal ambition. Evidence exists, but it lives across a control library, a risk register, several supplier attestations and someone inbox, and assembling it for a review consumes weeks of senior time.

How HexaShield solves it

Governance, Risk and Compliance delivered as a managed service on HexaComply: a proprietary ISMS holding requirements, controls, evidence and your audit room in one place, with evidence assembling itself continuously as the business operates. A compliance specialist is included; CISO support is available on top.

Governance, Risk & ComplianceHexaComply
The business outcome

Audit-ready as a continuous state rather than a quarterly scramble. The same evidence base answers the regulator, the client due-diligence pack and the board paper, so senior people spend their time on the finding rather than on assembling the folder.

02

Your third parties are your resilience, and you can only see them annually

TPRM
The problem

Core processing, payments, custody, data and client reporting all run through providers, several of whom concentrate onto the same underlying infrastructure. Assurance arrives once a year as a questionnaire, and material changes in between are learned about from the news.

How HexaShield solves it

Third-party risk management built into HexaComply, working with Cyber Intelligence on HexaInt for third-party risk intelligence, credential exposure and dark-web monitoring, scored against your estate rather than delivered as another feed to drown in.

Cyber Intelligence, Third-Party RiskHexaComplyHexaInt
The business outcome

Supplier risk becomes a live picture instead of an annual snapshot. Concentration is visible before it becomes an incident, and the conversation with a critical provider is evidence-led rather than an exchange of assurances.

03

Nobody can tell the board what you can and cannot detect

ATT&CK
The problem

Investment in tooling is substantial and coverage is assumed. Asked directly which attacker techniques would be caught and which would not, the honest answer is that nobody has measured it, which is an uncomfortable position in front of an audit committee.

How HexaShield solves it

Managed SOC / MDR on HexaSOC, measured by HexaMatrix, which maps detections onto the MITRE ATT&CK framework per infrastructure area so coverage is measured rather than assumed, scores exposure by likelihood and impact, and generates the detections to close the gaps it finds. Coverage surfaces in HexaView.

Managed SOC / MDR, ATT&CK coverageHexaViewHexaMatrixHexaSOC
The business outcome

Coverage becomes a number the board, the auditor and the insurer can each read at their own altitude, and one that improves measurably the longer the service runs, because the gaps found are the gaps closed.

What sits behind it

The problems, and what answers each

Each situation, the capability that answers it and the platform it is delivered on
#The situationCapabilityDelivered on
01You can describe your resilience but you cannot evidence it on demandGovernance, Risk & ComplianceHexaComply
02Your third parties are your resilience, and you can only see them annuallyCyber Intelligence, Third-Party RiskHexaComply, HexaInt
03Nobody can tell the board what you can and cannot detectManaged SOC / MDR, ATT&CK coverageHexaView, HexaMatrix, HexaSOC

The frameworks your supervisors and clients are working to

DORA for in-scope EU entities · PCI DSS where card data is handled · the SWIFT Customer Security Programme for messaging participants · UK operational resilience expectations · ISO 27001 and SOC 2 as client due-diligence currency.

We map the ones that apply to your jurisdiction, flag, licence or trade during onboarding rather than assuming them here. Compliance frameworks and regulatory requirements change over time; the specific frameworks in scope, and their current requirements, are confirmed and verified with your counsel during onboarding.

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Threat landscape

What actually goes wrong in Financial Services

Third-party and concentration risk

Critical services depend on a handful of providers, and several of your critical providers may in turn depend on the same one.

Fraud that starts with leaked identity data

Credential and personal-data leakage feeds account takeover, authorised push payment fraud and mandate fraud.

Ransomware with a regulatory tail

Beyond recovery, an incident triggers reporting clocks, supervisory engagement and customer-harm assessment.

Legacy in the payment estate

Core systems that cannot be patched on a modern cadence sit behind layers of compensating control that nobody has recently tested.

Cloud misconfiguration

Rapid migration leaves exposed storage, over-permissive roles and unmonitored administrative paths.

Evidence debt

The controls exist. Demonstrating that they operated continuously, to a supervisor, is the part that fails.

One connected picture

Every important business service and what it depends on, in one place

Almost every operational-resilience obligation resolves back to one map: which services matter, what technology and which third parties they run on, and what happens when those fail. Most firms hold that map in four systems that disagree. HexaCore holds one.

Core banking & payments Ledgers, rails, settlement
Trading & market data Venues, feeds, algo platforms
Customer channels Online, mobile, contact centre
Cloud & SaaS estate Identity, workloads, data stores
ICT third parties Providers, intragroup, sub-outsourcers
Corporate IT & endpoints Mail, SSO, devices
HexaCore Resilience core Correlate · enrich · decide
Services mapped to dependencies Concentration visible end to end
DORA and NIS2 evidence Register, incidents, testing, oversight
Classification starts immediately HexaSOC triages against the reporting clock

Incident reporting timetables are unforgiving because they start at detection, not at understanding. Correlating first means the classification decision is a lookup rather than an investigation.

Obligations

The regulatory picture

The frameworks and regimes that shape security programmes in this sector. HexaComply maps one control set across all of them.

DORA (EU 2022/2554)

Applies from 17 January 2025. Covers ICT risk management, incident reporting, digital operational resilience testing, ICT third-party risk and the register of information.

NIS2

Banking and financial market infrastructure are in scope as essential sectors.

PCI DSS 4.0

Mandatory wherever cardholder data is handled.

SWIFT Customer Security Programme

Annual attestation against the Customer Security Controls Framework.

FCA / PRA operational resilience

UK firms must remain within impact tolerances for important business services.

NYDFS Part 500

Cybersecurity requirements for New York-regulated financial institutions.

The approach

How HexaShield covers it

  1. 1Map the service, not just the asset

    HexaCore holds assets, identities, exposures and third parties in one model, which is what makes an important-business-service view maintainable rather than an annual exercise.

  2. 2Resilience testing that is continuous

    HexaStrike validates exposure continuously and HexaInt drives it from live intelligence, which is a far better fit for DORA's testing expectations than a yearly engagement.

  3. 3ICT third-party risk with real evidence

    HexaComply maintains vendor assessment and the register of information, while HexaInt monitors supplier exposure independently of self-attestation.

  4. 4Incident reporting with the facts attached

    HexaSOC investigations carry their reasoning and timeline, which is exactly what a regulatory notification needs and what post-incident reconstruction usually lacks.

  5. 5One control set, many supervisors

    DORA, NIS2, PCI DSS, SWIFT CSP and internal audit largely ask for the same controls in different language. HexaComply maps them once.

The platform

Modules that do the work

HexaComply

Compliance & TPRM

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HexaSOC

AI agentic SOC & MDR

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HexaInt

Cyber & dark-web intelligence

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HexaStrike

Agentic offensive security

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HexaCore

The unified resilience core

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One accountable partner

Integrated capabilities and proprietary platforms under one operating model, so there is no gap between the team that detects something and the team that answers for it.

No rip-and-replace

We sit above the stack you already run and take telemetry from any source. Nothing here depends on you replacing tooling you have already bought and trained people on.

Transparency by default

Whatever you buy feeds HexaView, the same truth our analysts see, at the depth each audience needs, exported on demand for leadership, auditors and insurers.

FAQ

Questions, answered

What does DORA require in practice?
DORA has applied since 17 January 2025 and sets directly applicable obligations across five areas: ICT risk management, ICT-related incident management and reporting, digital operational resilience testing, management of ICT third-party risk including a register of information on contractual arrangements, and information sharing. The recurring theme is evidence, supervisors expect to see that controls operate, not that they exist on paper.
How does HexaShield help with the DORA register of information?
HexaComply maintains third-party arrangements, criticality tiering and the supporting assessment and monitoring record in one place, so the register is an output of running the programme rather than a spreadsheet reassembled before each submission. HexaInt adds independent external evidence of supplier exposure.
Does this satisfy DORA's threat-led penetration testing requirement?
Advanced testing such as TLPT has specific scope and provider requirements set by regulators, and where those apply they must be met on their own terms. What HexaShield provides is the continuous testing layer around them: HexaStrike validates exposure as the estate and threat landscape change, which is what keeps the picture current between formal exercises.
Can you cover both EU and UK obligations?
Yes. DORA, NIS2, FCA and PRA operational resilience expectations and PCI DSS overlap substantially at the control level. HexaComply maps one implemented control to every obligation it satisfies, so the difference between regimes becomes a gap analysis rather than parallel programmes.
Other sectors

We work across resilience-critical industries

MaritimeVessel OT, port systems and shore-side IT, under IMO MSC.428(98), IACS UR E26/E27 and USCG expectations. Media & EntertainmentPre-release content protected across studios, post houses and vendors, aligned to TPN and MPA control expectations. Casino & GamingPlayer account defence, property OT and evidence for PCI DSS and gaming licence conditions. Critical National InfrastructureConverged IT and OT visibility, sovereign deployment, and evidence mapped to the NCSC CAF and NIS2. ManufacturingPlant visibility without downtime, plus IEC 62443, CMMC 2.0 and TISAX evidence for your customers. HealthcareMedical device and clinical system visibility that never interrupts care, evidenced for HIPAA and the DSPT.

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