Under attack?
Protection for financial services and fintech

Availability you can evidence to a regulator, not just to a dashboard

Financial platforms are attacked for extortion, for cover during other intrusions, and sometimes simply because a competitor's promotion is running. What makes the sector different is not the attack - it is that being down is a reportable event, and the report has to say what happened at packet level.

The sector's particular exposure

Extortion campaigns with a demonstration attack

A short, large burst followed by a demand. The demonstration is real and sized to prove capability, which is why the first hour matters more than the average.

Latency is a functional requirement

Trading, payment authorisation and card processing all have timing budgets. Mitigation that reroutes traffic through a scrubbing centre changes the path, and that change is itself an incident.

Regulatory consequence

Under DORA and NIS2 an availability incident affecting a financial entity is reportable, with detail. 'Our provider mitigated an attack' is not a report.

Why this architecture fits regulated finance

Always-on, so nothing changes under attack

Filtering is permanently in the path. There is no diversion, no BGP convergence and no latency step when an attack begins - the timing profile you validated is the one you keep.

EU infrastructure end to end

Points of presence, optical layer, filtering software and operations are inside the European Union, which answers the residency and jurisdiction questions before they are asked.

Packet-level evidence for every event

Which rule fired, what the traffic consisted of, when it started and stopped, and captures you can inspect yourself. Designed for what an incident report requires rather than for a marketing screenshot.

Certified and human-operated

ISO 9001, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS. Support is staffed by engineers 24/7 with no AI in the escalation path - during a reportable incident you are not explaining yourself to a model.

Tier 2 European backbone · European DDoS protected network Built, filtered and operated inside the EU · human NOC 24/7, no AI agents
ISO 9001ISO 27001PCI-DSSGDPRNIS2

Connectivity a regulator can read about

The mitigation is one layer. The same network sells the layers around it - and a stack bought from one operator has nobody in it to blame somebody else.

DWDM

Latency that is written into the contract

Dedicated wavelengths between sites where the round-trip figure is contractual: trading links, market data, DR replication - quoted from the measured fibre and written into the order. DWDM wavelengths →

DIA

Protected access for regulated entities

Always-on filtered internet access on EU infrastructure end to end, with the per-incident evidence DORA and NIS2 reporting actually needs. Protected transit & DIA →

Transport

Between offices and the DR site

EVPN-MPLS for site interconnect and replication - sub-50 ms protection where the route is physically diverse, and stated plainly where it is not, because an auditor will ask. EVPN-MPLS transport →

Consulting

Architecture that passes an audit

Network design and equipment selection with the documentation a regulated entity is expected to produce - then configuration, testing and support, by the people who designed it. How an engagement runs →

How it is delivered

Protected IP transit or diversion of existing ranges
Dedicated wavelengths between European sites where latency is contractual
WAF and reverse proxy for customer-facing portals
Incident documentation suitable for DORA and NIS2 reporting

Protection for other sectors