Every exposed API is a direct line to financial data
FortWatch scans your APIs, web applications, and infrastructure with 11 automated scanners. Find CVEs, weak encryption, open ports, and exposed endpoints. Generate SOC2 evidence without a security team.
Built for Financial Technology
API Endpoint Scanning
Nuclei CVE scans and security header checks on your API domains, open banking endpoints, and webhook URLs. Find known vulnerabilities in the services that handle financial transactions.
SOC2 Compliance Evidence
SSL/TLS audits, vulnerability scans, and security header checks generate evidence that maps to SOC2 Trust Service Criteria. Export results directly for your auditor.
Encryption and TLS Auditing
Deep SSL/TLS analysis verifies cipher suites, certificate chains, and protocol versions across every endpoint handling financial data. Catch weak encryption before regulators do.
Sensitive Data Exposure
Sensitive file detection and cloud bucket scanning find exposed config files, API keys, database backups, and misconfigured S3/Azure/GCP storage that could leak financial data.
Port and Service Discovery
Nmap port scanning maps every open service across your infrastructure. Detect unnecessary exposed ports, outdated services, and shadow IT that expand your financial attack surface.
AI-Prioritized Remediation
AI ranks every finding by severity and exploitability. Automated issue tracking with step-by-step remediation guidance so your engineering team can fix vulnerabilities without security expertise.
Secure Your Fintech Stack in Four Steps
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Enter API domains, application servers, and infrastructure IPs. Two-minute setup.
Run 11 Scanners
CVE detection, port scanning, SSL/TLS audits, sensitive file discovery, and cloud checks run automatically.
Fix Critical Issues
AI prioritization and guided remediation let your team close vulnerabilities fast.
Prove Compliance
Export scan evidence mapped to SOC2 controls. Continuous scanning keeps your compliance posture current.
External Attack Surface Monitoring for Fintech and Financial Technology
Fintech runs on public APIs. Payment initiation, account aggregation, KYC/onboarding, ledger, and webhook endpoints all live on the open internet, and they multiply fast — every partner integration, sandbox, and staging environment adds another hostname. The result is sprawl: api.yourbank.com, sandbox.api, partner-specific subdomains, status pages, and admin consoles, often spun up by different teams. External scanning catches the parts of this sprawl that are reachable from the internet — forgotten subdomains, expired or weak TLS on a payment endpoint, an admin or database port left open, security headers missing on an OAuth callback host — before someone else maps them first.
The most damaging fintech exposures tend to be configuration, not zero-days. Cloud storage holding statements, KYC documents, or transaction exports left world-readable; a .env or .git directory served from a build artifact with live API keys and database credentials; an internal service (Redis, Postgres, an Elasticsearch index, a Mongo instance) bound to a public interface during a quick deploy. Each is a direct line to financial data, and each is exactly the kind of artifact an external scanner can see precisely because it is exposed. DNS hygiene matters here too: a deprovisioned SaaS subdomain that still resolves is a one-click takeover, and weak SPF/DKIM/DMARC lets attackers spoof your domain in payment-fraud and invoice-redirection scams that target both customers and finance teams.
Fintech is also a prime target for brand abuse. Lookalike domains (yourbаnk.com with a Cyrillic character, your-bank-secure.com, yourbank-login.net) feed phishing kits that harvest banking credentials and one-time codes. Monitoring registrations of typosquats and lookalikes against your brand surfaces these campaigns while they are still being staged. To be clear about scope: FortWatch monitors what is externally observable — exposed services, certificates, DNS, public files and buckets, and lookalike domains. It is not an internal agent, a full DAST, or a substitute for a penetration test or code review of your transaction logic; it is the continuous outside-in view that keeps the internet-facing layer honest between deeper assessments.
Compliance this supports
How continuous external scanning maps to the frameworks teams in this sector report against.
If you store, process, or transmit cardholder data, external scanning maps directly to Requirement 11 (quarterly external vulnerability scans) and supports Req 2/4 by flagging insecure services, weak TLS ciphers, and exposed default ports on internet-facing systems.
"A payments startup ships a new partner integration on a Friday. To debug a webhook, an engineer deploys a quick build to webhooks-staging.payco.com and, in a hurry, copies the production .env into the image so the keys 'just work.' The subdomain is public, no auth in front of it, and the build server serves the directory listing. Over the weekend, FortWatch's scheduled scan discovers the new subdomain via DNS, fingerprints an exposed /.env returning live database credentials and a production payment-provider API key, and files a critical issue with AI remediation steps. The team rotates the leaked key and tears down the staging host Monday morning. Without that outside-in scan, the same .env was one search-engine cache or one opportunistic scanner away from draining the provider account and reaching the transaction database — the kind of exposure that turns a routine Friday deploy into a reportable breach."
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