The Only Cyber Risk Platform Built for Banking
AI BUILT FOR BANKING
AI Built for Banking. Not Bolted On.
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.
Earned Autonomy
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.
Banking-Native Intelligence
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.
Audit-Ready by Design
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
One AI-powered platform. Three capabilities your examiner, board, and team need.
Banking-Native Threat Operations
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:
We absorb the noise: 80M+ events a day per institution, filtered to ~3 that need a person. Typically under 3 minutes to detect (data in to a tracked investigation), a human owns your alert in about 5 minutes (ingestion to a named analyst), and within 20 minutes we’re communicating with your team to resolve the issue.
Continuous Risk Intelligence
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:
Continuous control monitoring across 16,000+ controls, so your risk posture reflects reality, not a once-a-year snapshot.
Governance & Evidence
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:
Thousands of audit-ready artifacts a year, mapped to 16,000+ controls, with about 70% less exam prep.
OUTCOMES THAT MATTER TO YOUR INSTITUTION
The Numbers Behind the Partnership
Every day we take in about 80 million events per institution and hand your team only the roughly 3 that genuinely need a person, a 99.9% noise reduction.
Every alert and control check becomes evidence, mapped to the frameworks you are examined against.
Average yearly savings per institution from automated evidence, faster exam prep, and quicker risk assessments.
Why Banks And Credit Unions Choose Defensestorm
AI You Can Explain and Defend to Your Examiner
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. 16,000+ 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. We understand your challenges in reporting and justifying your security program, and we automate that value reporting.
Always-On Banking Experts
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:
A US-based, senior banking-fluent cybersecurity analyst will collaborate with you on your case, 24x7x365. No Tier 1 queue, no bot.
One Platform, Not Five Vendors
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:
One provider replaces separate SIEM, EDR, SOC, risk assessment, vulnerability management, brand management, security awareness training, and governance tools.
Trusted by Leading Banks and Credit Unions
"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
One Banking-Only Partner for the Core of Your Security Program
You should not need five vendors to cover one program. DefenseStorm brings threat detection and response, risk, and governance together on one platform, and extends it with best-in-class partners for the capabilities that sit alongside it, so your team gets end-to-end coverage from a partner that does only banking.
What DefenseStorm delivers
- Managed detection and response (MDR): SIEM, a 24×7 Collaborative SOC, and endpoint response, built only for banks and credit unions.
- Risk & Governance: independent second-line visibility into your program: control monitoring, threat-informed risk assessments, and the evidence to back every control.
- GRID Active: the intelligent data engine that connects it all.
- Governed AI: seven Built for Banking AI Principles, explainable and defensible to an examiner.
Extended through our partners
- Endpoint detection and response, on the tools you already run (CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, Microsoft Defender).
- Vulnerability management (Tenable, CODA).
- Dark web monitoring (Q6 Cyber).
- Brand protection & Phishing Takedown (Allure Security).
- Security awareness and phishing training (KnowBe4).