External Attack Surface Management
Continuously discover exposed assets, domains, subdomains, services, technologies and misconfigurations across the external attack surface.
ThreatCanary for Financial Services
Protect financial platforms from exposure, abuse and attack.
Banks, insurers, fintechs and financial institutions operate large digital estates across customer portals, mobile backends, payment systems, partner integrations and public APIs. ThreatCanary helps security teams discover exposed assets, validate attack paths and prioritise the weaknesses most likely to be exploited.
Executive summary
Financial services has become one of the most API-driven and externally connected sectors. Open banking, mobile applications, fintech partnerships, digital onboarding, payment workflows and real-time data exchange have expanded the financial attack surface dramatically.
APIs now sit at the centre of customer experience, partner integration and digital banking innovation. Broken authorization, excessive data exposure, weak authentication, exposed endpoints, bot abuse, forgotten APIs and vulnerable external services can all create opportunities for attackers.
ThreatCanary helps financial services organisations continuously understand their external exposure across assets, APIs, digital platforms and attack paths.
Protected financial platforms
Protect the institution customers actually see.
ThreatCanary helps financial services teams understand which exposed systems, APIs and partner paths could become real attack routes before they affect customers, payments or trust.
Financial attack surface
Digital banking, payments and partner APIs create one connected exposure plane.
The financial services attack surface is not just domains and CVEs. It includes mobile backends, open banking endpoints, payment workflows, customer onboarding systems, fintech integrations, identity services and unmanaged environments that can drift outside normal governance.
ThreatCanaryFinancial exposure graph
Digital bankingCustomer portals and mobile backends
Open banking APIsPartner and fintech access
Payment flowsTransaction and settlement paths
Identity servicesAuth, session and authorization logic
Shadow exposureForgotten, staging and supplier assets
Customer data boundary
Payments + partner APIs
Sector challenge
The sector challenge
Financial institutions must protect customer trust, high-value data, digital banking platforms, public APIs, payment flows, partner integrations and regulated environments. In Australia, open banking and Consumer Data Right adoption, APRA CPS 234 expectations and fintech connectivity make API exposure, third-party risk and resilience evidence especially important. Development velocity is high, third-party connectivity is increasing, and attackers actively target systems that expose identity, account, transaction or payment data.
The challenge is not only securing known APIs and applications. It is discovering what exists, identifying what has drifted outside governance, validating what is exploitable and prioritising the exposures most likely to matter.
Attack surface
The attack surface
Digital banking portalsMobile application backendsOpen banking APIsPartner and fintech integrationsPayment workflowsCustomer onboarding platformsIdentity and authentication servicesPublic APIsForgotten, shadow and zombie APIsExposed cloud servicesThird-party hosted assetsTest and staging environments
Why traditional security falls short
Why traditional security falls short
Traditional vulnerability management often produces long lists of issues without showing which exposures matter most. WAFs may help with known web attack patterns, but they do not provide complete API inventory, business logic context or attack path reasoning. Periodic penetration tests are valuable, but they cannot provide continuous assurance across fast-changing financial platforms and API ecosystems.
How ThreatCanary helps
ThreatCanary combines external attack surface management, API security and offensive validation to help financial institutions understand their real-world exposure. It discovers assets and APIs, identifies risky endpoints, validates externally visible weaknesses and helps teams prioritise remediation based on exploitability and business impact.
Financial exposure model
From customer channel to exploitable path.
Financial services risk rarely appears as one isolated issue. ThreatCanary models how exposed APIs, identity flows, partner systems and vulnerable services can combine into a realistic route to account, payment or customer-data impact.
01Customer channelWeb, mobile, onboarding
02API boundaryBOLA, drift, excessive data
03Identity flowSession, token, authorization
04Business impactAccount, payment, data exposure
Key capabilities
Key capabilities
API Security
Identify exposed, forgotten or risky APIs that support digital services, customer platforms, partner integrations and operational workflows.
Shadow Asset Discovery
Find assets that are unmanaged, forgotten, supplier-hosted or outside normal inventory processes.
Exposure Validation
Move beyond theoretical vulnerability lists by validating which weaknesses are visible, reachable and meaningful.
Attack Path Reasoning
Understand how exposed assets, vulnerabilities, APIs and technologies can combine into realistic attack paths.
AI-assisted Offensive Security
Use AI-assisted reasoning to accelerate analysis, connect signals and support offensive security workflows.
Continuous Monitoring
Track external exposure as it changes over time so teams can respond before attackers take advantage.
Executive Cyber Risk Visibility
Translate technical exposure into clear reporting for CISOs, executives, boards and risk leaders.
Sector-specific use cases
Sector-specific use cases
Outcomes
Outcomes
Better visibility of customer-facing exposure
Reduced API and digital platform risk
Improved prioritisation of remediation
Stronger executive reporting
Better support for secure digital transformation
Continuous assurance across banking, payment and partner ecosystems
Improved protection of customer trust
Buyer roles
Built for the teams responsible for reducing exposure.
CISOs and security executives
Clear visibility of external risk, remediation priorities and cyber posture across critical services.
Security operations teams
Continuous discovery, validation and prioritisation of exposed assets, APIs and vulnerabilities.
Red teams and offensive security teams
Attack path context, externally visible exposure and validation workflows that support offensive security operations.
Risk and governance leaders
Clearer reporting that connects technical findings to business, operational and sector-specific risk.
Developer and platform teams
Actionable insight into exposed APIs, misconfigurations and risky services that need remediation.
Common questions
Questions teams ask before they commit.
Direct answers on scope, evidence, safety controls and how ThreatCanary differs from tools you already run.
01How does ThreatCanary help financial services organisations?
ThreatCanary helps financial services organisations discover exposed assets, APIs, shadow services and attack paths across digital banking, payment and partner ecosystems. Because these environments are heavily API-driven and connected to third parties, the exposure that matters is frequently a chain across partner integrations and identity boundaries rather than a single vulnerable host.
02How does ThreatCanary help banks reduce API exposure?
ThreatCanary helps banks reduce API exposure by discovering public and partner-facing APIs, identifying shadow or forgotten endpoints, validating whether weaknesses are reachable, and prioritising remediation based on exploitability, customer-data sensitivity and business impact.
03Can ThreatCanary help with open banking and Consumer Data Right API risk?
ThreatCanary can help financial services teams understand exposure around open banking and Consumer Data Right API ecosystems by mapping public endpoints, partner integrations, authorisation boundaries, API drift and exploitable weaknesses that could affect customer data or transaction workflows.
04How does ThreatCanary support APRA CPS 234 cyber resilience conversations?
ThreatCanary does not replace governance or compliance programs, but it gives financial services teams evidence about externally visible assets, API exposure, exploitable paths, remediation status and exposure reduction trends that can support cyber resilience, third-party risk and executive reporting conversations.