Financial services organisations — spanning investment banking, asset management, trading platforms, and payment processors — face the highest concentration of regulatory cybersecurity requirements of any industry, combining SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules, FINRA obligations, GLBA, PCI DSS, and SOX into a compliance landscape that Zero Trust architecture addresses holistically through its identity, data, and network control pillars. The financial sector is consistently the most-targeted industry for sophisticated threat actors, with the SWIFT banking network compromise and multiple trading-platform breaches demonstrating the systemic risk that unverified internal access creates.
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