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Unlocking the future of application security for financial institutions

Revitalize application security from reactive to proactive — detecting and responding to threats and vulnerabilities, as they happen.

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in 2023

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increase in APIs and web apps attacks

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more high-severity vulnerabilities per app

Trust and confidence in the safety and soundness of your applications and APIs is paramount in 2023.  Contrast Security is  committed to protecting the financial sector. Our participation in the FS-ISAC and Cyberfraud Taskforces of the US Secret Service underscores our dedication to the sector.”

- Tom Kellermann
SVP of Cyber Strategy

The benefits of Contrast Security for financial institutions

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Enables continuous monitoring of the application layer for behavioral anomalies.

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Delivers accurate anomaly detection, blocking attacks targeting zero days, custom code and third-party vulnerabilities.

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Prevents attacks in production and vulnerabilities in development.

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Analyze code 10x faster compared with traditional tools.

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Scale to protect thousands of applications with a fully distributed infrastructure.

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Help maintain compliance with a wide range of Application Security standards.

Empowering financial services app developers to rapidly deliver secure software

 How this North American insurance subsidiary increased developer awareness about application security risk and safe coding practices.

Financial Services case study

“Contrast takes an innovative approach to Application Security that enables our developers to work smarter and focus on threats that pose the greatest risk. … We now categorize applications in Contrast according to their importance within the organization, along with the severity scores for each vulnerability ... 

Because Contrast is context-aware, continuous and accurate, we can prioritize vulnerability remediation to focus on those that pose the greatest risk.”

— Information Security Leader for a North American insurance subsidiary

Contrast for financial services

Contrast Security has increased our level of confidence in ensuring the quality and security of our software applications. It has empowered our developers and it is an integral part of our SDLC. As a result, it has enhanced developer productivity and security."

- Head of Application Security
Top 10 International Bank

The value of Runtime Security for the finance sector:
Why current application security approaches too often fall flat

Q&A

Listen to Tom Kellermann, Senior VP of Cyber Strategy at Contrast Security, chat with Eric Baran, Principal Segment Leader — DevOps — Global Financial Services at AWS, about the current threat landscape facing financial services organizations and what they can do to more effectively safeguard against modern application-layer attacks.

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Who’s Watching Your Applications and APIs Right Now?

Who’s Watching Your Applications and APIs Right Now?

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Customer success story: Snap Finance

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Heist to Hostage Situation: Attack Trends in the Financial Sector

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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), which regulates some of the world's largest financial institutions, states, in its MAS Tech Risk Management Guidelines section 6.1.6, that it is essential for the financial institution to establish a comprehensive strategy to perform application security validation and testing. The financial institution may use a mixture of static, dynamic and interactive application security testing methods to validate the security of the software application. The software validation and testing rules should be reviewed periodically and kept current.

Check out Contrast Security for yourself

See how Contrast Runtime Security secures your critical apps from attacks and vulnerabilities.