By Clementina Barbosa, Sector Manager – Financial Services, Cloudcomputing
20+ years helping banks and insurers turn complexity into clarity through cybersecurity
Change is the only constant in financial services. Mergers. Regulatory shakeups. Cloud migrations. Market expansion. Fraud spikes. If you work in security or identity, you know what I mean.
I’ve spent the past two decades supporting CISOs, CTOs, and IAM leaders through these exact moments where pressure and opportunity collide. My mission is simple: make cybersecurity work for the business, not against it.
Here’s what I’m seeing right now in the financial sector, and how Cloudcomputing is helping clients turn cyber risk into resilience.
Every M&A sounds like a boardroom win, until the identity teams see the system maps. Overlapping directories, incompatible access policies, zero visibility. Shadow IT thrives in the chaos.
What to do:
We guide clients with IAM integration strategies supported by our IAM Healthcheck and vIAM services. The result? Unified access, faster onboarding, and fewer hidden risks.
A leadership change is a rare chance to ask, “What’s really working?”. It’s a chance to reprioritize, if you have the right visibility.
What to do:
We kick off with a full IAM maturity assessment, map the gaps, and co-create an evolution roadmap aligned with Zero Trust. An action-ready path, validated with your stakeholders.
NIS2. DORA. PSD3. When regulators come, proving compliance is just as critical as achieving it.
What to do:
We support clients with contextual Zero Trust assessments, identity mapping, and tailored support for financial-sector audits. That means stronger evidence, fewer penalties, and a reputation that stays intact.
Cloud-first is now cloud-already. But many IAM strategies lag behind, especially in hybrid environments because of friction, redundancy, and rising support costs.
What to do:
We accelerate digital transformation with hybrid identity architecture, SSO, adaptive MFA, and RBAC policies, built and run by certified experts. The outcome: fast time-to-value and seamless access.
Fraud cases are rising, and attackers are evolving faster than traditional controls. APIs and privileged access points are prime targets.
What to do:
Our approach integrates PAM, behavior-based risk models, and full-session observability. This enables proactive fraud detection and automated reporting, without adding burden to internal teams.
Breach. Panic. Disruption. Every financial institution must be prepared.
What to do:
We support post-incident recovery with Zero Trust enforcement, secure session management, and full log analytics integration. Then we work with your team to strengthen security posture, deliver technical reports, and prevent recurrence. Quick recovery is only the start. Building resilience is the real win.
Opening in new regions shouldn’t mean reinventing your identity stack.
What to do:
We deliver multi-country governance frameworks, federated directory integration, and compliance-by-design IAM setups with vIAM. It’s how our clients scale securely and on time.
Onboarding delays. Login complaints. Abandoned sessions. In digital banking and fintech, bad UX is a revenue risk and IAM plays a bigger role than ever.
What to do:
We map the full identity journey, reduce friction with SSO and contextual MFA, and integrate HR and CRM systems to streamline access. We also add UX observability to monitor and continuously improve user satisfaction. The goal is higher adoption, lower churn, and faster onboarding.
You don’t have to fix everything at once. But you do need to act during these moments of change. At Cloudcomputing, we simplify the complex, build with impact, and walk alongside our clients.
Let’s turn your next change into an opportunity to build lasting security and trust.
Clementina is Cloudcomputing’s Financial Services Sector Manager. For over 20 years, she has helped banks and insurers across Europe simplify cybersecurity and identity transformations. Her approach is direct, strategic, and rooted in outcomes.