Most financial institutions already have strong security controls in place. Teams encrypt storage volumes. They use encrypted connections. They manage user entitlements. They secure customer-facing applications. They monitor infrastructure. These are necessary controls, but they do not always protect sensitive values such as account numbers, card data, Social Security numbers and balances once authorized systems, privileged accounts or downstream workflows can access the data.
The risk increases when financial data moves beyond the core system of record. Transaction data may be copied into a warehouse, used in a data lake for fraud analytics, sent through an ETL pipeline, replicated to a regulatory reporting database or exported into a staging environment. Development and quality assurance teams may need realistic data to test banking and payment applications. Fraud and risk analysts may need to correlate activity across accounts without direct visibility into the underlying customer data. Compliance teams may need to show auditors and regulators that cardholder and customer data is protected consistently under frameworks such as PCI DSS, GLBA and SOX.
SecureDB helps financial institutions protect sensitive database fields before those movements create exposure.