When minutes become millions.
IT & cybersecurity for institutions that can’t pause.
Banks, credit unions, wealth managers, insurers, and fintechs run on confidentiality, integrity, availability, and regulator trust — four properties attackers work hard to undermine. AlecTech delivers the execution muscle to keep each one in place, in the detail that OSFI, AMF, your auditors, and your clients expect.
Financial services is the most-targeted sector
The data is valuable, the payouts are large, and the regulators are watching. That combination explains why financial services consistently tops published cyber-risk rankings.
Figures synthesized from published industry reporting, regulator advisories, and cyber-insurance claims data. AlecTech will tailor these to your firm’s profile on request.
Six pressure points across a regulated firm
Payment rails, customer portals, core banking, back-office trading, client data, and the supplier ecosystem that stitches them together — every layer is leverage if it isn’t watched.
BEC & payment redirection
Finance, AP, treasury, and client-onboarding mailboxes are the highest-value targets in a financial firm. A single redirected wire routinely exceeds the annual cost of a security program.
Cash flowAccount takeover & credential stuffing
Client portals, mobile banking apps, and open-banking APIs see continuous automated attack traffic. Detection without friction is the whole game.
Customer trustInsider & privileged-user risk
Traders, advisors, and operations staff hold privileged access to client data and transaction systems. Most insider events are accidental — the ones that aren’t are catastrophic.
Privileged accessRansomware on back-office systems
Investment accounting, policy administration, and document management platforms don’t need to be destroyed — just unavailable long enough to miss a settlement, an NAV, or a regulator deadline.
Operational resilienceThird-party & fintech compromise
Core banking providers, custodians, KYC vendors, and API partners sit inside your trust boundary. OSFI B-13 exists precisely because attackers have figured this out.
Supply chainCustomer data exfiltration
Client records, statements, KYC packages, and portfolio data are high-value, long-lived, and tightly regulated. A quiet exfiltration is a headline years later.
Regulatory exposureFour scenarios we have seen — and stopped
These are composite, anonymized patterns from real Canadian financial-services engagements. Names, products, and figures changed; the mechanics are honest.
A wealth manager’s AP clerk receives a banking-instruction update from a long-time custodian. Tone is right, domain is one character off, timing aligns with a planned settlement. Nobody would catch it on a normal day.
AlecTech’s email security and awareness tooling flagged the look-alike domain in real time. A one-click SOC report triggered a same-day investigation, and the wire was held pending second-channel verification.
A credit union’s mobile and web portal starts seeing a sudden spike in failed logins from residential IP ranges. A fraction of the attempts succeed — reused passwords from other breaches.
AlecTech’s MDR correlated the pattern across WAF, IdP, and endpoint telemetry, forced step-up authentication on matched accounts, and briefed the fraud team. The firm’s actual clients never saw an outage.
A retail advisor’s endpoint starts showing unusual export activity from the book-of-business CRM — consistently, late at night, on a home connection. Nothing illegal on the surface, everything familiar to counsel.
A risk assessment and DLP tuning identified the exfiltration pattern early. Evidence was preserved to the standard counsel wanted. HR and compliance handled the rest; the firm kept the book.
A federally regulated insurer is mid-cycle against OSFI B-13. Internal teams are strong on policy, thinner on operational evidence — logs, runbooks, tested recovery, vendor controls.
AlecTech’s regulatory & contract compliance team mapped existing practices to B-13, closed nine gaps in parallel, and produced regulator-ready artefacts — without slowing the day job.
Why financial services is different from “regular” IT
Generic MSSPs treat every client like a head-office network. Financial services isn’t that. You run market-hour SLAs, payment-rail integrations, regulator-facing controls, and a supplier map that would make most industries dizzy — all while client confidence is measured in minutes.
AlecTech’s model is built for that reality: SOC coverage that understands market windows, auditor-grade evidence as a by-product of operations, and regulator-fluent response playbooks — not policy theatre.
You don’t need another vendor who can spell OSFI. You need an execution muscle aligned to how financial services actually runs.
What “financial-grade” means here
- Market-window awareness. Containment and patch decisions aligned to settlement cycles, NAV cuts, and market hours.
- Auditor-ready evidence. Logs, attestations, and narratives produced as a by-product of the SOC — not reconstructed at audit time.
- Regulator-fluent response. OSFI B-13, AMF, PCI DSS 4.0, NYDFS where relevant — all held in one framework map.
- Third-party & fintech discipline. Continuous monitoring of the supplier surface, not an annual questionnaire.
- Canadian context. PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, provincial privacy commissioners, FINTRAC expectations.
The solutions that map to this industry
Every AlecTech service exists somewhere on a financial firm’s risk map. These are the ones we lead with — and the order we usually lead with them in.
Built as an execution muscle, not a PowerPoint deck
AlecTech is a Canadian MSSP. The deliverables are operational — detections, responses, evidence, and governance — run by a team that understands how financial services actually settles and reports.
Market-aware coverage
We design controls around how financial firms actually operate — market windows, settlement cycles, NAV cuts, and SLAs that clients and regulators both watch.
Regulator-fluent response
OSFI B-13, AMF, PCI DSS 4.0, PIPEDA, Law 25 — all held in one framework map, all reflected in the response playbook, and all audit-ready.
Canadian context
Provincial privacy commissioners, FINTRAC expectations, and a practical read of federal and provincial rules — by a team that lives in the same regulatory landscape you do.
The rules landing on FS desks today
Not every firm needs every framework — but the ones showing up in regulator letters, auditor schedules, and carrier renewals are converging fast.
One MSSP, one financial-services program
We rarely sell a single service into a financial firm. The pattern that actually moves the needle is a small, opinionated combination — deployed in a sequence that matches how risk shows up against the regulator.
Your next audit shouldn’t be a scramble.
Book a 30-minute working session with AlecTech. We will map the top three cyber risks against your current operations and leave you with a plan your board, regulator, and auditor can read.
