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title: "Cybersecurity for Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI)"
description: "Continuous VAPT and compliance automation for BFSI institutions navigating RBI, CERT-IN, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and DPDP Act requirements simultaneously."
keywords:
  - BFSI cybersecurity
  - banking penetration testing
  - financial services security
  - RBI compliance security testing
---

# Cybersecurity for Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI)

Few industries carry as much simultaneous regulatory weight as BFSI — RBI guidelines, CERT-IN directives, PCI DSS for payment data, and DPDP Act obligations for customer data, all enforced against an industry that's a permanent, high-value target for attackers.

## Why BFSI Is Different

Financial institutions hold data and move money in ways that make every vulnerability immediately monetizable for an attacker. Regulatory scrutiny is correspondingly heavy: CERT-IN empanelment requirements, RBI cybersecurity frameworks, and sector-specific incident reporting timelines leave little room for a "we'll get to it next quarter" approach to security testing.

## What We Cover

- **Continuous VAPT** through [Alastor Pulse](/products/alastor-pulse), meeting the frequency expectations regulators increasingly hold financial institutions to.
- **CERT-IN aligned testing** — engagements structured to satisfy India's CERT-IN empanelment and incident reporting requirements, detailed in our [CERT-IN compliance program](/compliance/cert-in).
- **PCI DSS coverage** for any institution handling cardholder data, mapped to our [PCI DSS Checklist](/checklists/pci-dss).
- **Fraud-adjacent attack surface testing** — [Attack Surface Management](/features/attack-surface-management) and [Dark Web Monitoring](/features/dark-web-monitoring) catch exposed systems and leaked credentials before they enable fraud.
- **Compliance automation** through [Alastor Shield](/products/alastor-shield) mapped simultaneously to CERT-IN, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and DPDP Act (DPDPA).

## Common Requirements We See

- CERT-IN empanelled auditor engagements for regulatory reporting
- PCI DSS certification for payment processing systems
- DPDP Act (DPDPA) readiness for customer financial and personal data
- Continuous monitoring requirements from RBI cybersecurity frameworks

## Where to Start

Most BFSI engagements start with a CERT-IN-aligned VAPT baseline, followed by continuous coverage and compliance automation across PCI DSS and DPDP Act simultaneously.

[Talk to our team](/about-us) about a CERT-IN aligned security program for your institution.