Security testing for FinTech, payments, and banking
Continuous, verified testing for teams whose product moves money — mapped to PCI DSS 4.0.1, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 so every scan doubles as audit evidence.
RedStrike is a continuous security testing and cloud posture platform for financial technology teams. It tests web applications, APIs, networks, containers, and AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts, then maps findings to PCI DSS 4.0.1, SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, the OWASP Top 10 (2025), and the OWASP API Security Top 10 (2023). Authorization testing is a first-class part of the engine, covering broken object-level authorization, broken function-level authorization, and multi-step workflow bypass — the failure classes that cost payment platforms the most and that scanners built for static content miss.
The problem
Why payment platforms outgrow annual pentests first
The controls a card-data environment must prove are continuous, but the testing most FinTech teams buy is a single week per year.
PCI DSS is a year-round obligation
PCI DSS 4.0.1 expects secure configuration, access control, and vulnerability management to hold every day of the year. An annual test tells you about one week of it, and the gap between tests is where an assessor's findings come from.
Authorization bugs, not injection, lose the money
In a payment API the expensive flaw is usually one account reading or moving another account's funds — broken object-level authorization, a skipped step in a transfer workflow, a function reachable by the wrong role. These are logic flaws; a signature-matching scanner walks straight past them.
Your API surface changes faster than your scope document
New endpoints ship weekly, partner integrations open new paths, and a stale scope document quietly stops describing what is actually exposed. What is in PCI scope drifts along with it.
False positives are a tax you pay in engineering hours
A tool that reports every theoretical issue turns a compliance requirement into a triage backlog, and the real finding sits at position 400 in a list nobody finishes reading.
How RedStrike helps
Built for the failure classes that matter to money movement
Every capability below is a component of the scan engine, not a roadmap item.
Authorization and workflow testing
Dedicated checks for broken object-level authorization (OWASP API1), broken function-level authorization (API5), authentication bypass, and multi-step workflow bypass — run with real session context rather than guessed from responses.
API discovery and inventory
Endpoints are enumerated from specifications and observed traffic, then correlated so the tested surface reflects what is actually deployed rather than what the last scope document said.
Verified findings only
Findings are corroborated with collected evidence and de-duplicated across tools before they reach you, so one issue seen by three scanners is one issue in your queue — not three.
Cardholder-environment posture
AWS accounts are graded against the PCI DSS benchmark directly, plus CIS Foundations; Azure and GCP are graded against CIS. Encryption at rest, key rotation, network exposure, and logging are checked continuously.
Exploitability-weighted severity
CVSS is normalized across every tool and enriched with CISA KEV membership and EPSS probability, so a known-exploited flaw outranks a theoretically-worse one nobody is using.
Evidence an assessor accepts
Reports export as PDF, HTML, Markdown, JSON, CSV, SARIF, OpenVEX, and OSCAL, with control ids attached to each finding and the framework edition pinned to the one your assessment is against.
Compliance coverage
Which frameworks this maps to — and exactly how far the mapping goes
PCI DSS is mapped on the application side and checked natively on AWS resources. NIS2 applies to EU financial entities in scope of the directive and is mapped on findings rather than cloud resources.
| Framework | Edition mapped | Cloud coverage |
|---|---|---|
| PCI DSSPCI Security Standards Council | 4.0.1 | Native cloud-resource checks on AWS. Azure and GCP are graded against CIS benchmarks instead. |
| SOC 2AICPA | 2017 | Native cloud-resource checks on AWS. Azure and GCP are graded against CIS benchmarks instead. |
| ISO/IEC 27001ISO/IEC | 2022 | Native cloud-resource checks on AWS. Azure and GCP are graded against CIS benchmarks instead. |
| NIS2European Union | 2022/2555 | Mapped on findings from application, API, and network testing. No native cloud-resource checks — pair with CIS benchmark grading for cloud evidence. |
| OWASP Top 10OWASP Foundation | 2025 | Mapped on findings from application, API, and network testing. No native cloud-resource checks — pair with CIS benchmark grading for cloud evidence. |
| OWASP API Security Top 10OWASP Foundation | 2023 | Mapped on findings from application, API, and network testing. No native cloud-resource checks — pair with CIS benchmark grading for cloud evidence. |
Every cloud account is graded against CIS Foundations benchmarks on AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes clusters against the CIS Kubernetes benchmark, regardless of which frameworks above apply to you. Evidence can be exported as a report or pushed into Vanta or Drata.
How it works
From connected to evidence in four steps
Define scope
Add the domains, APIs, and cloud accounts in scope, with rules of engagement recorded before any test runs.
Test continuously
Application, API, network, container, and cloud checks run on a schedule instead of once a year, so drift is caught within a scan cycle.
Verify & de-duplicate
Findings from multiple tools are correlated into one issue, evidence is collected, and severity is scored so the list you read is the list that matters.
Export evidence
Results are mapped to framework controls and exported as a report, or pushed into Vanta or Drata.
Outcomes
What changes once this is running
- Prove secure configuration and vulnerability management continuously instead of reconstructing a year of it the week before an assessment.
- Catch authorization and workflow flaws that signature-based scanners structurally cannot find.
- Keep one ranked, de-duplicated queue instead of three tool consoles that disagree.
- Pin the PCI DSS edition your assessment is against, so a mid-year standard change does not invalidate your evidence.
- Push control-mapped evidence into Vanta or Drata rather than re-keying it by hand.
Related
Go deeper on the parts that matter to you
Continuous Pentesting
Always-on, verified offensive testing across apps, APIs, and network — not a once-a-year snapshot.
Learn more →Cloud Security (CSPM)
CIS-benchmarked posture across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with drift caught inside a scan cycle.
Learn more →Compliance
How findings become control-mapped audit evidence, and which editions are pinned to your engagement.
Learn more →FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about RedStrike for FinTech.
Does RedStrike satisfy the PCI DSS penetration testing requirement?
RedStrike performs continuous automated penetration testing and produces control-mapped reports against PCI DSS 4.0.1, including evidence exports in PDF, HTML, SARIF, and OSCAL. Whether that satisfies a specific requirement is a determination your QSA makes about your environment and scope. Many organisations use continuous automated testing alongside a scoped manual assessment; RedStrike is designed to be the continuous half and to give the manual half a far shorter list to start from.
Does RedStrike support DORA?
Not as a mapped framework. RedStrike's registry covers PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, NIS2, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, NIST SP 800-53, HIPAA, GDPR, and the OWASP Top 10 and API Top 10. NIS2 is the EU regulatory framework currently mapped. If DORA mapping matters to your programme, ask us before you buy rather than after.
How does RedStrike test payment APIs specifically?
Endpoints are discovered from API specifications and observed traffic, then exercised with authenticated sessions across multiple roles. Dedicated checks cover broken object-level authorization, broken function-level authorization, mass assignment and over-exposure of object properties, authentication bypass, and multi-step workflow bypass, which is the class that catches skipped verification stages in a transfer or payout flow.
Which cloud providers get native PCI checks?
AWS accounts are audited against the PCI DSS benchmark natively, in both the 4.0 and 3.2.1 editions. Azure subscriptions and GCP projects are graded against CIS Foundations benchmarks, which cover the underlying configuration controls but are not a PCI-labelled ruleset. The coverage table on this page states this per framework.
How are false positives handled?
Findings are verified with collected evidence before they are reported, and results from multiple tools are correlated into a single de-duplicated issue keyed on target, vulnerability type, and location. Severity is normalized to CVSS across tools and weighted by CISA KEV membership and EPSS exploitation probability.
Can findings go straight into our issue tracker?
Yes. RedStrike files findings into Jira and GitHub Issues, including automatic filing rules, and can push control-mapped compliance evidence into Vanta or Drata.
Prove your payment environment is secure every day, not once a year
Continuous, verified testing mapped to PCI DSS 4.0.1, SOC 2, and ISO 27001.