Senior security-engineering perspectives for regulated fintech teams. How continuous evidence, SOC triage automation, identity lifecycle, and detection-as-code actually get built and run in production.
A board-level guide for the people who carry ICT risk: the controls examiners and partners check first, a five-step path to build them, and a ten-question self-assessment. Score your firm in two minutes, then read the playbook or take the PDF to your board. With DORA in force and the EU AI Act high-risk obligations from 2 August 2026 (provisionally deferred to December 2027, pending adoption), it shows where to start.
Why protection is the product and documentation is the byproduct. The operational reality of alert fatigue and identity backlogs, the four pillars of modern security engineering, and the metrics from production operations behind continuous evidence.
Eleven sections on the engineering-first approach: the illusion of enterprise coverage, the API imperative, phased trust for AI operations, SOC triage internals, identity automation, detection-as-code, evidence as architecture, and privacy-first local sandboxes.