AI BUILT FOR BANKING
Every cybersecurity vendor is racing to market AI. DefenseStorm is building AI the way banks build trust – with documentation, oversight, and accountability at every step.
Our AI capabilities are governed by seven Built for Banking AI Principles, mapped to NIST AI RMF and CRI FS AI RMF. Every AI output is explainable to a non-technical professional. Every capability is inventoried, documented, and visible to the customer. Because in banking, if you can’t defend the tool and its output to stakeholders, auditors, and examiners, you shouldn’t be using it.
AI earns trust through documentation, oversight, and human sign-off. Capability grows step by step, under explicit policy, with human-in-the-loop boundaries your examiner can verify.
12 years of banking-only threat patterns, examiner expectations, and industry control frameworks inform every AI output. This is not generic enterprise AI adapted for banking - it is intelligence shaped by the only dataset that matters to your institution.
Seven Built for Banking (B4B) AI Principles govern every AI capability inside GRID Active, DefenseStorm's intelligent data engine. Framework-aligned to NIST AI RMF and CRI FS AI RMF - so your examiner gets documentation, not a marketing slide.
THE PLATFORM
Managed detection and response (MDR) built for the attack patterns, industry control frameworks, and operational realities of financial institutions. AI-enhanced threat triage surfaces the signals that matter, while our Collaborative SOC of banking-expert analysts frames every escalation in terms your examiner understands.
Proof:
<15-minute mean time to detect. <24-hour mean time to respond. 95%+ SLA compliance.
Live, operationally grounded risk intelligence that replaces static annual assessments. AI-driven continuous control monitoring connects threat telemetry to business exposure, giving your risk officer independent visibility into risk posture and control effectiveness - driving timely, meaningful decision making.
Proof:
Institutions reduced risk scores by 38% in 12 months with 47% fewer control failures.
DefenseStorm turns every alert, investigation, and decision into structured evidence mapped to CRI Profile, NIST CSF 2.0, and exam procedures. AI accelerates evidence capture, auto-aligning detection triggers to recognized controls - detailed evidence exports for examiners, high-level reporting for the board.
Proof:
138+ audit artifacts generated per month, saving 20+ hours of manual prep. 91% of detection triggers auto-aligned to recognized controls.
OUTCOMES THAT MATTER TO YOUR INSTITUTION
Mean time to detect across the DefenseStorm customer base. AI-enhanced threat triage and 12 years of banking-specific detection patterns surface the signals that matter — fast.
Institutions using DefenseStorm's continuous risk intelligence reduced residual risk scores by 38% in 12 months — replacing static annual assessments with live, operationally grounded risk posture.
Auto-generated from operational workflows, not manual prep. Every alert, investigation, and decision becomes structured evidence mapped to CRI Profile, NIST CSF 2.0, and exam procedures — saving 20+ hours of manual compliance work monthly.
Platform consolidation eliminates the cost of stitching together disconnected SIEM, SOC, GRC, and reporting tools. One platform, one partner, one invoice.
Our analysts engage within 90 seconds on critical cases. Institutions on DefenseStorm see ~1.4 high-severity weekly threats vs. 3.7 for peer institutions — because banking-native detection eliminates the noise that buries real threats.
Detection triggers automatically mapped to recognized industry control frameworks. Your examiner gets structured evidence that demonstrates control effectiveness — not a binder full of screenshots.
DefenseStorm is the only cyber risk management platform designed exclusively for U.S. banks and credit unions — with AI that’s governed by seven Built for Banking Principles, not bolted on from a generic enterprise model. Our detection rules, governance workflows, analyst training, and control mappings are built for one vertical — yours.
Proof:
200+ banks and credit unions. 10,000+ banking-specific controls mapped across industry control frameworks, regulatory guidance, and exam procedures. AI governed by 7 B4B Principles mapped to NIST AI RMF and CRI FS AI RMF.
Our Collaborative SOC operates 24×7×365 as an extension of your team. Our analysts work alongside AI-enhanced triage to investigate with banking context, frame escalations in terms your examiner understands, and generate structured evidence that powers governance reporting.
Proof:
Analysts engage within 90 seconds on critical cases. Institutions see ~1.4 high-severity weekly threats vs. 3.7 for peer institutions.
Threat operations, risk intelligence, governance, and AI - unified in GRID Active, DefenseStorm's intelligent data engine. Every security event, risk signal, AI output, and governance artifact lives in one place, governed by one standard.
Proof:
Clients save an average of $170K/year in cyber risk operational costs through platform consolidation.
"The strength of DefenseStorm’s CTS Ops comanaged service, and Threat Surveillance product lies in their capacity to sift through and provide actionable alerts for prompt and accurate responses. This degree of vigilance and assistance is crucial in protecting our operations."
Chief Operations Officer, Great Lakes Credit Union
"By implementing DefenseStorm, we now have a unified, single pane of searchability. Everything is consolidated in one place, providing a single source of truth for conducting investigations and event correlation.”"
Chief Information Officer, Space Coast Credit Union
"The fact that DefenseStorm exclusively works with financial institutions means that they understand the challenges that we have and do everything necessary to address those challenges. The service is great."
Information Technology Director, Information Technology Director
"DefenseStorm rocks. I love that the level of customer service is off the charts compared to other providers that I’ve worked with."
VP of Information Security, Prevail Bank
"I love being able to call [DefenseStorm] up anytime to answer a question; they’re always there to give guidance. Any company in this market would have trouble sourcing the talent and expertise that is a part of that team. Having them always there is a tremendous value. It’s like having an extension of my team, really."
Director of Security Operations, Ncino
"I don’t want any of my customers looking at me saying, ‘Mark, I trusted you with my money and my information. Why didn’t you protect me?’ We really want to be able to say we’re constantly on the cutting edge of security and looking to make sure those hooligans haven’t figured out a way to get into someplace they’re not supposed to be. DefenseStorm is a product that lets us be able to do that."
CEO, Citizens National Bank of Texas
| Capability | DefenseStorm | Horizontal MDR (Arctic Wolf, Rapid7, CrowdStrike) | FI-Vertical Security (Adlumin, Abrigo) | Banking Core (Jack Henry, Fiserv) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built Exclusively for Banking | ||||
| Unified Threat Ops + Risk + Governance | ||||
| 24×7 Banking-Expert SOC | ||||
| Examiner-Ready Evidence & Governance | ||||
| AI Governance (B4B AI Principles) | ||||
| Continuous Risk Intelligence | ||||
| Predictable Pricing |
