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Financial services · SOC 2 & SIEM

Getting a financial services firm audit-ready with a SIEM that produces evidence

Enterprise clients and auditors demanded proof of controls the firm could not produce on a cadence. A SIEM existed but generated noise, not defensible detections or evidence.

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Monthly

Audit-ready evidence, not annual scrambles

Higher-signal

Detections tuned to real adversary paths

Faster

Turnaround on client security reviews

Representative engagement — A financial services firm under client and regulatory scrutiny (anonymized). Details are anonymized and illustrative of how we work; outcomes are directional, not a claim about a specific named client.

The challenge

  • Client security questionnaires and a looming SOC 2 audit required evidence the firm did not produce continuously.
  • The SIEM ingested logs but fired low-signal alerts nobody trusted, and coverage gaps went unnoticed.
  • There was no clear owner for detection quality or audit evidence.

Our approach

  • Engineered the SIEM as a detection program — sources, parsers, correlation, and tuning mapped to MITRE ATT&CK — rather than a log bucket.
  • Tied policies to controls and controls to telemetry so evidence is generated as a byproduct of operations.
  • Set up monthly evidence packs and a reporting rhythm leadership and auditors can actually read.

The outcome

  • The firm answers client security reviews quickly from a consistent evidence base.
  • Detections are trusted and actioned instead of ignored, and coverage gaps are visible.
  • Audit fieldwork is a routine review of continuous evidence rather than a fire drill.

Built for regulated, audited environments

We deliver the controls and evidence that make your audits possible — hardening and operating practices aligned to the frameworks your assessors and customers recognize.

SOC 2
ISO 27001
HIPAA
PCI DSS
CIS Controls
NIST CSF
GDPR

Services in this engagement

SIEM & Threat IntelligenceSecurity ComplianceManaged Detection & Response (MDR/XDR)Virtual CISO

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