Cyber-Resilient Storage for Financial Services
Financial institutions manage some of the most targeted and heavily regulated unstructured data in any industry. BrickStor SP provides the storage-layer defense, access control, and compliance capabilities that financial services firms need to protect client data, satisfy regulators, and maintain operational resilience.
The data security challenge in financial services
Financial services firms manage massive volumes of sensitive unstructured data — client records, trading data, regulatory filings, and internal communications — under overlapping regulatory frameworks and persistent threat activity.
Regulatory Complexity
SEC, FINRA, SOX, GLBA, and PCI DSS each impose distinct requirements on how unstructured data is stored, accessed, retained, and audited. Meeting all of them on a single platform is rare.
Targeted Ransomware
Ransomware groups specifically target financial institutions because of their low tolerance for downtime and the perceived willingness to pay. Trading floors, settlement systems, and client-facing operations cannot afford extended outages.
Insider Threat
Employees and contractors with access to high-value client data, trading strategies, and M&A documents represent a persistent exfiltration risk that traditional perimeter defenses do not address.
Data Volume and Sprawl
Client records, trading data, regulatory filings, internal communications, and research documents generate massive volumes of unstructured data distributed across offices, data centers, and cloud environments.
What BrickStor SP brings to every deployment
Four patented capabilities at the core of every BrickStor SP deployment. The sections below cover what each one means inside a financial services environment specifically.
Active Defense →
Patented inline detection and response in the storage data path. Ransomware, insider misuse, and bulk exfiltration get stopped in under a second — before the write completes.
ABAC →
Attribute-based access control evaluated on every SMB, NFS, S3, and Web Drive operation. Data Centric Zero Trust — clearance, program, device, network, and behavior on each request.
ImmutaVault →
Patented virtual air gap built into the storage system. Immutable, indelible, isolated recovery copies that survive even attackers with administrative privilege.
Intelligent Bulk Remediation →
Patented surgical file-level recovery. After an incident, restore only the files the attacker touched in minutes — not the entire volume from snapshot over days.
How the pillars translate to regulated finance
SEC 17a-4 write-once retention
Immutable snapshots enforce write-once, read-many retention for the records covered by SEC 17a-4(f) — audit-ready evidence the regulator can inspect, without a separate WORM appliance or backup-vendor compliance license.
Trading-floor uptime as the SLA
Patented surgical recovery restores only the files an attack actually touched — research libraries, settlement records, and trade-blotter directories come back in minutes, not the days that take a trading desk offline.
Pre-IPO and M&A insider risk
Behavioral analytics baseline who normally reaches deal rooms and counsel directories, and surface the off-hours bulk reads that precede a leak. The forensic record gets to your CCO and your outside counsel before the trade prints.
GLBA + PCI DSS + FFIEC in one stack
Encryption, ABAC, audit, and rapid recovery all live in the storage platform — so the controls evidence you owe each regulator comes from one source of truth instead of four point products and a binder of correlations.
Regulatory alignment
BrickStor SP capabilities map directly to the regulatory frameworks that govern financial services data handling.
Business outcomes
Who benefits
CISO
Reduce unstructured data risk with active ransomware defense and insider threat detection built into the storage layer — not bolted on top of it.
Compliance Officer
Demonstrate regulatory alignment with immutable records, granular access controls, and audit trails that map directly to SEC, SOX, GLBA, and FINRA requirements.
CIO / CTO
Consolidate file storage and data security onto a single platform, reducing infrastructure complexity and eliminating gaps between storage and security teams.
SOC Analyst
Gain storage-layer visibility through SIEM/SOAR integration, enabling faster detection and response to threats that originate at or target the data layer.
FAQ
- BrickStor SP provides immutable snapshots with configurable retention periods that enforce write-once, read-many semantics. Records cannot be modified or deleted during the retention window, even by storage administrators, satisfying the non-rewriteable and non-erasable requirements of 17a-4.
- Yes. BrickStor SP continuously baselines file access behavior and flags deviations — such as a user accessing client portfolios outside their assigned accounts, bulk downloading sensitive documents, or accessing data during unusual hours. Alerts are generated in real time and can be routed to your SIEM or SOC.
- BrickStor SP exports storage telemetry to SIEM platforms (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, and others) and supports SOAR-driven automated response workflows. It also integrates with Active Directory, LDAP, and identity governance platforms for access control enforcement.
- BrickStor SP combines real-time attack detection with immutable snapshots to enable rapid recovery. Sub-minute RPO means data loss is minimal, and bulk restore operations can bring large file environments back online without rebuilding from backup infrastructure.
- Yes. BrickStor SP can be deployed across multiple data centers, offices, and disaster recovery sites with centralized management through Hub Central. Replication and failover capabilities support business continuity requirements common in financial services.
Protect Financial Data with Cyber-Resilient Storage
See how BrickStor SP addresses the data protection and compliance requirements specific to financial services.