Prove Your Program Works, Every Day, Not Just at Exam Time

DefenseStorm turns your team's everyday security work into a 2nd line workflow allowing for continuous visibility into control effectiveness, risk profile, and framework adherence. You spend less time defending the program and more time running it, and you hand your board and risk officer the visibility they ask for without it landing on your calendar.

Evidence that builds itself, not one more thing to assemble before an exam.

Everything You Need to Prove Oversight

Threat-informed, quantitative risk assessment. Risk scoring shaped by real alerts and incidents, not once-a-year gut feel. Internal controls aligned to frameworks to identify gaps and shape your information security roadmap.

Continuous control monitoring. Controls are validated on a schedule and evidence is filed automatically against your frameworks and your own control list.

Built-for-Banking framework library. NIST CSF 2.0, the CRI Profile, exam procedures, FedLine, R-SAT, and more, with your controls mapped live to show gaps.

Institutional memory. Every decision, its data, and its rationale are captured and versioned, so the program survives staff turnover and framework changes.

Anonymized peer benchmarking. See how your posture compares to similar institutions, the same lens examiners use.

Board- and examiner-ready reporting. Dashboards and exports assembled continuously, ready when you need them.

What Your Team Gets Back

Result What it means
16,000+ controls mapped Every incident and control check is mapped across framework and internal controls
Thousands of artifacts a year Audit-ready evidence generated automatically, not assembled before an exam
About 70% less prep Less time spent preparing for exams and audits
Risk assessments in half the time Automated evidence and control mapping cut the risk-assessment exercise roughly in half
About $170K saved per year Average yearly savings per institution across evidence, exam prep, and risk assessments
Second line visibility Controls are enforced, monitored, and evidenced continuously, not point-in-time

From Everyday Work to Exam-Ready Proof

Consolidate, don't add. Replace overlapping tools, spreadsheets, and manual processes with one banking-specific record for risks, controls, frameworks, and evidence.

Standardize risk assessments. Use quantitative scoring, reusable registers, mapped workflows, and board & exam-ready risk assessment reports.

Let evidence build itself. Tasks, findings, and validations connect to mapped controls automatically, so evidence is a continuous output, not a last-minute scramble.

Prove controls work. Tie real-time monitoring triggers and validation tasks back to controls and evidence, so your team shows effectiveness, not just activity, without adding headcount.

Report up with confidence. Deliver consistent KPIs and KRIs, maturity trends, and examiner-ready exports. One story for leadership, one record for proof.

Work with your current stack. Integration-ready across core banking, digital banking, authentication, and cloud platforms.

Built for the Team That Answers for Security

For the CISO or ISO
For the CISO or ISO

Spend more time running your program and less time defending it. Every investigation, alert, and control check becomes examiner-ready evidence automatically, so you walk into exams with proof, not a binder full of narrative. And your risk officer get independent visibility without pulling on your calendar.

For the security and IT team
For the security and IT team

Stop building committee decks from screenshots and spreadsheets. The evidence and reports assemble themselves as you work, so you spend your week on real analysis instead of gathering data, and your case work is documented and defensible by default.

For the risk officer
For the risk officer

Hand your board clean, consistent reporting and give your risk officer independent, real-time visibility into control effectiveness. The oversight conversation gets easier because the proof is already there, current, and mapped to the frameworks they care about.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is governance and risk for banks and credit unions?
It connects cyber risk assessments, control monitoring, evidence collection, and board reporting into one continuous, defensible program. At DefenseStorm, these activities live in one record, so oversight is always current, evidence is always mapped, and reporting is always exam-ready.
How is this different from a generic GRC platform?
DefenseStorm is 100% focused on banking. Our frameworks map to what examiners actually ask for, and evidence automation is built into the workflow, not bolted on. Where generic tools force lean teams to translate between IT language and examiner expectations, we connect your operations to your governance workflows so it is one defensible story.
Does this replace our risk assessment tool?
It can replace spreadsheet-based processes and consolidate overlapping tools. Many teams use it as one record for quantitative risk assessments and governance workflows, so evidence, risk posture, and oversight live in one place.
What frameworks and regulatory procedures does it support?
It aligns to FFIEC examination procedures, GLBA Safeguards requirements, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (including CSF 2.0), NCUA expectations, and the CRI Profile. Framework mappings are maintained as guidance evolves, so you stay aligned without manual re-mapping.
What replaced the FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT)?
The FFIEC retired the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) on August 31, 2025, and pointed institutions to updated resources such as NIST CSF 2.0 and the CRI Profile. DefenseStorm supports these frameworks natively and helps you move off CAT-based assessments without starting from scratch.
Who is it for?
Information Security Officers, CISOs, and IT and security teams at U.S. banks and credit unions, typically institutions with $500M to $20B in assets. It is built for lean teams that have to prove oversight to a board and examiners without adding headcount.

Stay Exam-Ready All Year

Prove your program works every day, and hand your board and examiners the evidence without the scramble. Built for banking. Trusted by peer institutions.