Runtime Identity security for financial institutions
Compromised credentials remain a common breach vector for financial institutions.* Silverfort enforces identity controls inline and at runtime, so possession of a valid credential is never enough to cause damage—no matter how fast the attack moves.
*Data Breach Investigations Report, 2026
Runtime enforcement, proven at global banking scale
A major multinational bank needed to extend its own MFA experience across hundreds of homegrown applications that supported payment transfers, ticketing, internal accounting, and other essential business processes.
"We now have a streamlined set of robust security measures in place to mitigate the threat of malicious actors using compromised credentials to access our systems, as well as a solution that empowers all of our users to work more efficiently."
IT infrastructure manager
Major multinational bank
The challenge
Configuring each app individually would have required extensive code changes and risked disrupting critical processes. At the same time, repeatedly challenging tens of thousands of employees would create MFA fatigue and slow access. The bank also needed to meet local requirements for MFA on systems used to access customer information.
Our solution
Silverfort integrated with the bank’s custom MFA application and extended its protection to all 329 legacy applications without modifying each application individually. It also grouped related applications under a single verification, to reduce unnecessary prompts.
In response to ECB Mandate SSM-2026-0301
The ECB AI cyber risk mandate just made AI-powered attacks a board-level emergency. Here's your playbook.
What EU zone financial institutions must deliver by October 31, 2026, and the 7 operational tracks that build real AI-powered attack readiness.
Secure the identities behind every financial transaction
In financial services, access can become material impact before most controls would even alert. In the era of AI-powered attacks, these windows are compressed even further, making runtime Identity Security the only effective line of defense.
Silverfort evaluates every access request the moment it happens, at the authentication layer, across every identity type and every environment: legacy servers, mainframes, cloud, and SaaS platforms.
See the identity paths to critical systems
Gain unified visibility into human users, administrators, service accounts, cloud non-human identities, and AI agents. Understand which identities can access critical resources, how they authenticate, and where excessive or unexpected access creates risk.
Enforce the right access at the right moment
Apply MFA, deny-access policies, JIT, tier segmentation, least privilege, and Virtual Fencing at runtime. Restrict privileged and non-human identities to approved resources, sources, destinations, protocols, and time windows—before legitimate access becomes a path for misuse.
Demonstrate that controls are continuously operating
Maintain a continuous record of authentication activity, policy decisions, and blocked attempts across regulated systems and critical functions. Give audit and compliance teams evidence that controls operate between assessments—not only a snapshot from the last audit.
Close the identity-control gaps that matter most
Extend MFA to critical systems that couldn’t be supported before
Apply MFA to mission-critical on-prem applications — including mainframes and core banking, payment, and trading platforms — that couldn’t support it before, without code changes, proxies, or heavy deployments.
Protect privileged identities at scale
Discover privileged users and service accounts, reduce standing access, and enforce controls on access paths that traditional vaults and session brokers do not cover. Apply JIT, MFA for administrative access, tier-based restrictions, least privilege, and behavior-based controls to each privileged access attempt.
Stay ahead of AI-powered attacks
AI is compressing the time attackers need to identify weaknesses, abuse credentials, and advance an attack. Silverfort blocks malicious authentication and access attempts inline—before a compromised identity can become lateral movement, privilege escalation, or financial impact.
Protect access before it becomes impact
See how Silverfort protects the identities and systems behind your most critical financial operations.
