Phani Deepak Akella

Banking & Financial Services (BFS) firms are shouldering a uniquely heavy share of the global threat load.

Most security conversations focus on the front door: the public website, the customer login, the API that partners hit. The back door gets less airtime. Yet the admin console is where the real damage happens. It is where servers get provisioned, where DNS gets changed, where databases get queried, where access is granted and revoked. If an attacker reaches an admin console with working credentials or a working exploit, the rest of the perimeter does not matter very much.