After six years, three failed trials, and one near acquisition, it stood poised on the edge of clinical success. A first in class therapy with blockbuster potential. The CEO had cleared her calendar. The head of R&D was smiling for the first time in months. Investors were circling back. On a Thursday afternoon, quietly and invisibly, something else happened. A junior biostatistician clicked on what looked like a standard login prompt. It was fake. By the time IT noticed unusual outbound traffic, the damage was already underway. Encrypted trial data stored in a poorly segmented cloud repository had been siphoned off. Not all of it, but enough.
The intellectual property was exposed. Competitors knew too much. The edge was gone.
Banking and Fintech
On the surface, the business is doing great. Growth charts look good, investor presentations sparkle, and the product roadmap is ambitious. But under the shiny surface, there are cracks. Compliance demands are catching up. Security rules were made back when the whole team could sit in one room, and they haven’t been updated much. One single exposed API key could throw the whole thing off.
Across town, a bank just went through a reputational nightmare. A phishing scam and stolen credentials took them offline for six hours. That was enough to cause panic with shareholders and customers. They got through it, just about. For this CFO, the warning is clear, next time it could be them.
It’s not only about stopping a breach. It’s about how quickly you can spot trouble, how well you can keep people informed, and how ready you are to meet what regulators expect. In this line of work, speed is part of survival.
The truth is, many fintechs and banks have amazing customer-facing systems but still run on old, patched-together backends. Trust in the tech stack is not a plan. Regulators are pushing harder, investors want straight answers, and the people trying to break in keep getting smarter.
At Alexsta, we have seen this story play out before. If nothing changes, it usually ends badly.
Our work is to change that ending before an attack becomes public.
We do more than basic penetration testing. Our team looks for active threats already inside your network, like hidden malware, weak identity setups, or badly secured integrations. We use intelligence feeds, anomaly spotting, and endpoint checks to find problems before they become investor calls and bad headlines.
Attackers are good at finding the smallest holes. We work to close them in detection, hardening, and incident response. For fintech and banking clients, we also make sure systems follow standards like NIST, SAMA, PDPL, and GDPR. This is about being ready for the real thing, not just ticking boxes.
When something happens, the clock starts. Our incident team moves fast to contain the threat, protect the evidence, and get systems running again. We also handle the people side, helping leaders manage disclosure, reassure stakeholders, and keep the board focused on solutions.
We do not wait for alerts to tell us something is wrong. Our threat hunting service searches for early signs of trouble, from insider misuse to API exploitation, so we can stop it before it causes real damage.
We know the pressure leaders feel when they have only part of the picture and the stakes are high. That is why we give clear, tailored reports, personal briefings, and advice in plain language, not just tech talk.
Solution
A good night’s sleep in this business is not about luck, it comes from preparation. Alexsta helps you:
The next CFO lying awake at night could be you. Or, if you prepare with us, it could be the competition instead.
When you work with us, you gain more than a cybersecurity service. You gain a strategic sentinel committed to your resilience.
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