In financial services, a compromised credential is a direct path to the systems that move money.
Core banking platforms, mainframes, payment infrastructure, and legacy systems sit at the heart of every financial institution—but they’re among the hardest environments to modernize and the most unevenly protected. At the same time, machine identities, API keys, and AI agents are accumulating access across cloud environments faster than ownership and controls can keep up. The attack surface is growing, and the window between access and material impact is shrinking.
Silverfort closes the Identity Security gaps that traditional IAM and PAM programmes leave open, enforcing runtime controls at the authentication layer across AD, cloud, and hybrid environments, before compromised credentials can cause damage. And, crucially, it does this without application changes, lengthy deployments, and waiting for modernization programmes to catch up with risk.
For CISOs, IAM leaders, and compliance teams, Silverfort delivers something the financial sector has long needed: continuous, verifiable evidence that access controls are operating—not just when the assessment window opens, but every time an authentication happens.
Your policies define who should have access. Silverfort verifies whether that access should still be allowed, every time it is used.
Read this brief to understand:
- How Silverfort extends MFA, Just-in-Time access, and runtime policy enforcement to core banking, legacy systems, and critical financial infrastructure without application changes or modernization dependencies
- How Virtual Fencing restricts service accounts to their intended sources, destinations, and protocols, preventing the lateral movement paths that turn machine identity compromise into financial loss
- How Silverfort provides continuous, audit-ready evidence that access controls remain effective across regulated environments, between assessments, not just during them