Certifyi for financial services
Multiple regulators, one compliance workspace
Banks, insurers, fintechs and payment processors work to DORA, PCI DSS and SOC 2 while answering to a national regulator, under rules such as SAMA CSF, MAS TRM or the RBI cyber security framework. In Certifyi the regional rules run beside the global ones on one control set: you map a shared control once and reuse it across all of them, with the DORA ICT register, incident management and vendor management in the same workspace.
The problem
Financial regulators do not coordinate their requirements. DORA asks for an ICT third-party register in xBRL-CSV. PCI DSS wants evidence of cardholder data controls. SOC 2 maps trust services criteria to controls, and national regulators add their own layer on top. Compliance teams end up spending more time reconciling frameworks than managing risk. With one control set, you map a control once and every framework that asks for it draws on the same control and the same evidence.
Where the time goes
- Third parties at scale
- Financial institutions rely on hundreds of third-party providers, and each one needs due diligence, ongoing monitoring and contract review. Assessments arrive faster than anyone can review them.
- Notification windows
- Regulators set short notification windows, often measured in hours. One incident can fall under DORA, PCI DSS and a national regulator at once, each with its own format and deadline.
- Frequent audits
- Internal audit, external audit, the PCI QSA and regulatory examinations all come round each year, so evidence has to stay current all year.
- Tested resilience
- Regulators expect resilience to be tested as well as documented. Business impact analyses, disaster recovery exercises and scenario tests all need records and follow-up.
What Certifyi gives financial services teams
Nine modules for the obligations that shape compliance in financial services.
- DORA
- Keep the ICT third-party register with provider details and criticality, and export it as xBRL-CSV. Map DORA articles to controls and link each one to its evidence.
- PCI DSS
- Map controls at requirement level and collect evidence against the cardholder data environment.
- Common controls
- Map an encryption control once and reuse it for DORA, PCI DSS, SOC 2 and ISO 27001, with the same evidence behind each.
- Vendor risk
- Risk-tiered vendor assessments, questionnaires sent through a dedicated vendor portal, and the DORA ICT register with xBRL-CSV export.
- Incident management
- Log incidents, triage them by severity and track them to closure, with structured root cause analysis, in the same workspace as your controls and risks.
- Business continuity
- Business impact analysis with recovery objectives, continuity plans, exercises and activations, in the same workspace as your risk register.
- Continuous monitoring
- Before the QSA or the examiners arrive, see which controls have evidence behind them and which do not.
- Risk register
- Likelihood, impact, treatment and owner for each risk, with heatmaps.
- Reporting and audit trail
- When an inspector asks who changed a control and when, the tamper-evident activity log answers it.
Key modules for financial services
The core compliance workflow for banks, insurers, fintechs and payment processors.
How financial services teams bring their frameworks together
A typical sequence, from choosing frameworks to reporting to the board.
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Adopt your frameworks
Select DORA, PCI DSS, SOC 2 and any other standards that apply from the catalogue. Shared controls are mapped once, so you work from one control set.
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Build your ICT register
Import third-party providers, classify them by criticality, record contract details and export the register as xBRL-CSV for DORA.
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Connect evidence sources
Connect cloud infrastructure, identity providers and endpoint management, and attach their evidence to controls.
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Report to regulators and the board
Produce posture reports and risk heatmaps from live data instead of assembling spreadsheets each quarter.
Questions
Financial services questions
Does Certifyi support the DORA ICT register?
Yes. The ICT register holds third-party provider details, service criticality, contract information and supply chain dependencies, and exports it in xBRL-CSV, the format DORA requires.
Can I manage PCI DSS and DORA together?
Yes. Controls the two frameworks share are mapped once. An encryption control, for example, supports both DORA Article 9 and PCI DSS Requirement 3. You add the controls specific to each framework and map only the gaps.
How does Certifyi handle an incident that several regulators care about?
Each incident has one record from first report to closure, with triage, root cause analysis and corrective actions, however many regulators take an interest. Whether a notification duty applies, and to which regulator, is a judgement for your team and advisers. The record holds the facts that judgement rests on.
Where is data stored?
Each customer gets a dedicated database, and that is the default rather than an upgrade. Your data region is set for your workspace, and we will confirm the hosting location during your evaluation.
Can external auditors access the platform?
Yes. Auditors get scoped, time-limited access and see only the evidence, controls and reports for their engagement. Anything changed during the engagement shows in the tamper-evident activity log, with who made the change and when.
Does Certifyi handle operational resilience?
Yes. The business continuity module covers business impact analysis, recovery objectives, continuity plans, exercises and activations, in the same workspace as your risk register and incidents.
Put DORA, PCI DSS, SOC 2 and your national regulator on one control set
Book a demo and tell us which regulators you answer to. You will see a shared control mapped once across DORA, PCI DSS, SOC 2 and your national framework, and the DORA register exported from the same vendor records.
- Each customer workspace has its own database
- Every change written to a tamper-evident activity log
- Auditors get scoped, read-only access
- AI suggestions wait for a person to accept them