Banking institutions operate under some of the most demanding cybersecurity regulatory regimes globally — FFIEC guidance, GLBA Safeguards Rule, PCI DSS, SOX, and increasingly DORA for European operations — all of which require demonstrable access controls, encrypted data handling, and continuous monitoring that Zero Trust architecture operationalises at scale. The financial sector is the most-targeted industry for nation-state and criminal threat actors, with privileged access abuse and supply-chain compromise topping the MITRE ATT&CK techniques observed in banking breaches.
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