Fintech · Wealth & Investing · 200–1000 · North America #b007_03

Context

We provide custody, trading and an AI-assisted software platform for independent financial advisors, and our security team is growing quickly alongside the product.

Industry

Fintech · Wealth & Investing

Size

200–1000 employees

Region

North America

Tools budget

$5K–20K per month

Needs

Application security & code scanning. We are building out application security and need code scanning and testing that keeps up with fast product releases.

Today: new security team tuning code checks inside fast delivery pipelines · Urgency: now

Threat detection & response. We are standing up a security operations function and need detection and response coverage across our custody platform.

Today: building a first security operations function; detection and response still immature · Urgency: this year

Guardrails for AI agents and LLM apps. We are adding AI features for advisors and need guardrails so client financial data is not exposed.

Today: rolling out advisor-facing AI features, with controls owned by general security engineers · Urgency: this year

Who decides

ciso security · security review

Expects from suppliers

Low false-positive rates for engineers; Fits a fast-moving cloud product team; Experience with financial custody risk

Not a fit

Consulting-only engagements without tooling; Products that slow deployment pipelines

Stack

cloud: AWS-class hyperscaler, CI/CD pipeline in place, LLM APIs in production

Buying triggers

rapid team growth, AI adoption push