Cybersecurity and Risk Technology for Financial Firms
Strengthen cybersecurity, manage risk, and meet regulatory expectations.
Financial firms face increasing cybersecurity scrutiny from regulators, investors, and clients. ACA Group’s ComplianceAlpha® platform provides integrated cybersecurity and risk oversight technology to help firms strengthen their cybersecurity risk management programs. Our cybersecurity and risk solution helps firms:
- Strengthen cyber risk oversight: Centralize visibility into cybersecurity risks, controls, and compliance activities.
- Automate risk management workflows: Use automated workflows to streamline cybersecurity assessments and ongoing oversight.
- Customize cybersecurity controls: Align controls with your firm’s size, complexity, and risk profile.
- Access real-time insights: Monitor cybersecurity and risk information to support informed decision-making.
- Leverage expert support: Combine technology with guidance from regulatory and cybersecurity specialists who understand financial services.
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What Do You Need Help With?
Trusted by asset managers, alternative asset managers as well as their portfolio companies, our tech-enabled solutions are tailored to each firm’s regulatory obligations, operating model, and risk profile.
Assess and Build My Program
Build a solid foundation with cyber and information security policy development, security awareness training, and strategic advisory—delivered by cybersecurity, regulatory experts.
Satisfy My Firm’s Regulatory Requirements
Demonstrate compliance with regulatory cyber mock exams, readiness assessments that consider global frameworks and emerging mandates, including SEC, FCA, NFA, DFSA, FSRA, GDPR, CCPA, DORA, the EU AI Act, FCA Operational Resilience, and Regulation S-P.
Prepare My Firm To Respond and Recover From Business Disruptions
Enhance business continuity with incident response planning, tabletop exercises, and resilience testing—plus embedded support to ensure your firm stays prepared.
Evaluate My Cybersecurity Defenses
Proactive cyber and technology risk assessments, penetration testing, phishing simulations, vulnerability assessments, and cloud security reviews. Educate and improve awareness across your firm with tailored employee training.
Gain Oversight of Portfolio Company Risk
Apply the right level of portfolio governance with customizable scoring models, and centralized documentation for a transparent understanding of portfolio risk.
Manage My Firm’s Third-Party Risk
Strengthen your vendor oversight with automated vendor due diligence, risk scoring, and centralized documentation—supported by expert guidance and ongoing monitoring.
Ready To Reduce Regulatory Risk Through Smarter Cybersecurity?
Discover how the ACA ComplianceAlpha® platform combined with expert cyber guidance can help you protect your assets, meet regulatory demands, and demonstrate firm-wide cyber readiness.
Client Perspectives
We’re certain we can be your ideal partner. But our clients say it best.
As we realized the increasing complexities when managing the cybersecurity issues of our portfolio companies, we started having conversations about getting outside help and ultimately decided to go with ACA.
– Steve Cherington Head of Operations, Ara Partners
With ACA Vantage, we now have increased visibility into where companies stand in terms of their vulnerabilities and their risk levels.
Jeff Steinhorn, Operating Partner, Gridiron Capital
Why ACA?
Here’s what sets us apart:
More Than Just Tech
Our cybersecurity specialists and regulatory advisers, partner with firms to implement effective, proportionate, and scalable solutions—not one-size-fits-all templates.
Designed To Stand up to Scrutiny
Whether facing investor due diligence or a regulatory exam, our guidance and support are built to help firms answer the scrutiny they are presented with.
Sector-Specific Insight
We understand the complexity of financial services regulation—and build tailored cybersecurity programs that address it.
FAQs
Cybersecurity and Risk Technology
What are ACA Aponix's Cybersecurity and Risk Advisory solutions?
Our cybersecurity and risk advisory solutions provide award-winning cybersecurity program support that helps clients uncover critical risks, build robust programs, and identify deficiencies in their cybersecurity policies, procedures, and controls. Backed by our team’s real-world cyber and IT experience, and proprietary tools and methodologies, our products are designed to help cybersecurity, compliance, and privacy leaders confidently meet new regulatory requirements and effectively assess and advise on cyber risk remediation.
Our services include regulatory readiness assessments, cyber policy development, cyber portfolio oversight, risk assessments, vendor due diligence, penetration testing, incident response plan testing and review, privacy assessments, and staff training.
Why is cybersecurity crucial for financial services firms?
Financial institutions handle sensitive financial and personal data, making them attractive targets for cybercriminals. Robust cybersecurity programs and oversight are essential to protect a firm’s data, preventing financial losses, and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
Does ACA Aponix help clients focus on any specific regulators or compliance authorities?
We partner with firms to interpret and respond to evolving regulatory expectations. Our team works closely with clients to translate complex regulations into actionable strategies for key authorities including:
- SEC
- FINRA
- NFA
- FCA
- DIFC
- EU Commission
- DFSA
How does ACA Aponix support ongoing cybersecurity efforts?
We provide continuous support on a wide range of cybersecurity activities—from risk assessments, staff training, threat and vulnerability monitoring, and on-call advisory support. Our team stays abreast of the latest threat intelligence and regulatory changes, ensuring that your cybersecurity program can stay ahead of evolving regulatory expectations and market changes.
How does ACA Aponix assist with third-party risk management?
We help manage third-party cyber and information security risk, an increasingly critical responsibility for cybersecurity and compliance leaders. ACA Aponix offers a variety of due diligence solutions to ensure that you understand the cybersecurity risks associated with each vendor. We can also help you create and validate your third-party risk management program.
What sets ACA Aponix's cybersecurity solutions apart from other providers?
We are a cybersecurity advisory service that provides a comprehensive range of cybersecurity consulting, independent oversight, testing, assessments, and cybersecurity program enhancements. Our solutions are tailored to the client’s environment, enabling them to meet evolving regulatory requirements and meet demanding investor expectations.
Our team of over 70 cybersecurity professionals have a unique mix of real-world cyber experience (including former CISOs/CTOs), technical expertise, and regulatory knowledge that allows Aponix to provide the highest quality service and advice, designed specifically for the financial services industry.
How can ACA's cybersecurity solutions help us prepare for and respond to emerging cybersecurity risks?
Our cybersecurity solutions are designed to proactively assess risk, identify gaps in policies and procedures, and controls. We can also test critical cybersecurity defenses and provide alerts on new and emerging threats.
How do ACA Aponix's cybersecurity offerings address emerging threats and challenges related to AI?
ACA has been a leading voice in helping firms respond to the unique risks that AI tools and technology present. We have hosted numerous webinars in collaboration with trade associations and other companies that provided our clients with unique insights on the topic. We also launched the first survey for the compliance profession on AI risks, opportunities, and risk management practices, creating unique and quantitative insights.
Most importantly, we have rapidly evolved our product offerings to ensure they are AI-ready. This includes:
- Developing a pan-ACA AI Risk Assessment to ensure that the cyber, information security, and regulatory concerns of AI are rigorously evaluated and understood.
- Updating our guidance around cyber policies and procedures, including acceptable use policies, to ensure they meet the new risks and challenges of AI.
- Enhancing our vendor due diligence and third-party risk management products so that they capture the risks posed by vendors using
- Adding AI risks into our training modules to help our clients raise awareness about AI risks throughout their organizations.
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