Financial services cybersecurity Malaysia
Cybersecurity built for the Malaysian financial sector — banks, DFIs, insurers, fintechs, e-wallets and payment gateways. BNM RMiT 2025 alignment, PCI DSS, PDPA 2024 readiness, intelligence-led red team, CREST-aligned pentest and a 24/7 SOC designed for core banking, SWIFT and payment-rails realities.
The Malaysian FSI threat profile
Licensed banks carry the broadest surface — core banking, card management, ATM switch, SWIFT, treasury. DFIs carry disproportionate exposure on corporate and government-mandate flows. Fintechs and e-wallets carry narrow but high-velocity payment flows with API surfaces mature attackers probe continuously. Five scenarios dominate regional incident history: SWIFT fraud via operator-PC compromise, ATM jackpotting, fintech API abuse (broken object-level authorisation, business-logic abuse), business email compromise against treasury, and ransomware against core banking and policy administration estates.
BNM RMiT 2025, PCI DSS, PDPA, NACSA
The 2024–2025 RMiT cycle sharpened continuous control monitoring, board-level reporting cadence, third-party visibility and adversarial-testing depth. PCI DSS v4.x sharpened authenticated scanning and continuous evidence expectations. The PDPA 2024 amendment overlays mandatory breach notification and DPO appointment. Tier-1 banks, major DFIs and systemically important payment operators are credible Cyber Security Act 2024 NCII candidates, adding licensed-provider procurement and audit obligations on top of the existing BNM regime.
Our service stack
BNM RMiT 2025 Cyber Resilience Review
Control mapping against the latest RMiT cyber risk management, resilience, third-party technology risk and cyber operations centre obligations, designed to support board reporting and examiner enquiry.
Intelligence-Led Red-Team Operations
Objective-based adversarial testing of the live estate — customer data exfiltration, SWIFT misuse, card environment compromise — measured against detection and response maturity.
CREST-Aligned Penetration Testing
Conventional pentest scopes across internet and mobile banking, ATM switch, core banking integration, internal segmentation, cloud workloads and the public API surface.
SWIFT CSP Assessment
Independent assessment against the SWIFT Customer Security Controls Framework — secure zone, operator PC, privileged access, message integrity, anomaly detection and IR readiness.
24/7 SOC for Financial Institutions
Sector-tuned use cases for core banking, card management, payment gateway, ATM switch, internet and mobile banking, with evidence formatted for RMiT cyber operations centre obligations.
Financial-Services IR Retainer
Pre-positioned for SWIFT fraud, ATM jackpotting, card data exfiltration, fintech API abuse, BEC against treasury and ransomware on core banking. Regulatory notification matrix pre-arranged.
Frequently asked questions
The 2024–2025 cycle sharpened cyber resilience, cyber operations centre and third-party technology risk obligations — broader continuous control monitoring rather than point-in-time attestation, explicit board-level reporting cadence, deeper third-party visibility, and stronger expectations around adversarial testing.
Protect your operations
30-minute scoping call with a sector-credentialed consultant.
Not sure what you need?
Tell us what needs testing and we come back with a fixed fee within 48 hours — no hourly estimates.