Financial Services:
The High-Value Target for Cyberattacks
Keep Your Financial Data Secure and Stay Compliant
Advanced Cybersecurity for Financial Institutions
Financial institutions are increasingly vulnerable to state-sponsored attacks, insider data breaches, and application layer attacks. Opening a seemingly harmless invoice, mortgage application, or any other productivity file can successfully deliver a malware payload that enables cybercriminals to take over an entire network.
OPSWAT technologies prevent malware from infiltrating your networks and help protect your critical infrastructure. Discover why leading global financial services organizations trust our comprehensive approach to security.
Protect Financial Data from Malicious Attacks
This white paper provides an overview of existing and emerging cybersecurity threat vectors that affect financial institutions. Learn how organizations can secure their web applications, portals, and other infrastructure to protect critical data, as well as best practices for meeting regulatory compliance requirements.


Stay Secure, Compliant, and Ahead of the Curve
In this customer case study, we share how one of the world's leading reinsurance providers is leveraging OPSWAT technology to protect against file-based attacks.
The cost of cybercrime hit $8 trillion in 2023 and is expected to grow to $10.5 trillion by 2025.
64%
increase in ransomware attacks in the financial services sector in 2023
79%
of breaches in the financial services sector involved stolen personal information
$5.9 million
average total cost of a data breach for financial services organizations globally
High-Value Targets Need Comprehensive Protection.
Critical Infrastructure Protection for Financial Services


>99% Detection with 30+ Anti-Malware Engines
Advanced Malware Detection
Financial institutions handle highly sensitive data such as bank account numbers, social security numbers, and personal identification information.
OPSWAT Multiscanning helps safeguard this data from being stolen or compromised by cybercriminals.
Multiscanning leverages signatures, heuristics, and machine learning to detect >99% of malware to safeguard the critical infrastructure and highly lucrative data of financial institutions.
100% Protection with Deep CDR
Zero-Day Attacks Don’t Stand a Chance
Given their lucrative nature to cybercriminals, financial institutions are prime targets for cybercriminals for zero-day attacks. These attacks can compromise the integrity of files by exploiting vulnerabilities to modify, delete, or inject malicious code into them.
Deep CDR technology prevents potentially undetected file-borne threats by recursively sanitizing and reconstructing files, with support for 150+ file types.


Compliance with Proactive DLP
Protect Sensitive Information and Maintain Compliance
Banking and financial institutions are subject to regulatory standards that mandate the protection of customer data.
OPSWAT Proactive DLP (Proactive Data Loss Prevention) automatically identifies and redacts credit card info, social security numbers and other sensitive data to help meet compliance regulations like PCI-DSS, GDPR, SOX, and GLBA.
30+ Native Integration Options
Easy to Install and Maintain
Our plug-and-play solutions are easy to implement and integrate into your existing infrastructure and technology stack.
MetaDefender, OPSWAT’s comprehensive security platform, can be implemented through a REST API on-premises, air-gapped, or in the cloud. Our solution can be privately hosted on AWS or Azure or integrated with any ICAP device.