The Banking & Investment Challenge
Financial institutions are rapidly adopting AI for fraud detection, trading copilots, risk modeling, and customer engagement. But these high-value use cases carry equally high risks:
- Exposure of customer financial data, transaction records, or investment strategies
- Adversarial manipulation of AI models to bypass fraud checks or distort outputs
- Biased or hallucinated recommendations impacting client trust and compliance
- Lack of auditability into AI-driven financial decisions
Our AI runtime security solutions secure the Banking & Investment Services vertical with Red Team to validate, Guardrails to protect, and inbuilt observability to govern AI deployments.
Red Team: Validate AI Against Real-World Threats
F5 AI Red Team, proactively stress-tests AI systems used in trading, wealth management, and fraud monitoring before they go live.
- Agentic Resistance: Multi-turn adversarial attacks that mimic fraudsters or market manipulators.
- Signature & Operational Attacks: extensive evolving exploits test trading copilots and fraud models for prompt injection, data leakage, and denial-of-service.
- Financial Context Testing: Customized campaigns evaluate whether AI could expose customer PII, recommend risky trades, or breach regulatory guardrails.
Outcome for Banks: Validation that AI applications are resilient against adversaries and compliant before deployment.
Guardrails: Protect Banking AI in Real Time
AI Guardrails, previously named Inference Defend, safeguards financial AI systems during live operations, stopping threats without slowing down performance.
- Prevent Data Leaks: Blocks customer personally identifiable information (PII), account details, or portfolio data from being exposed in prompts or outputs.
- Stop Adversarial Exploits: Detects and prevents prompt injections designed to manipulate fraud detection or investment copilots.
- Tailored Controls: Security policies align to financial regulations like GDPR, PCI DSS, and SEC requirements.
- Inbuilt Observability: Provides real-time visibility and audit-ready records across all AI deployments.
Outcome for Banks: Transparent, defensible AI operations that withstand audits and regulatory scrutiny.
Comprehensive AI Security for Banking & Investment Services
With Red Team and Guardrails, financial institutions gain:
- Data Protection: Prevents leakage of sensitive financial and client data.
- Fraud & Manipulation Resistance: Hardens fraud detection and trading AI against adversarial exploits.
- Compliance Confidence: Meets audit, logging, and regulatory requirements across global jurisdictions.
- Client Trust: Ensures AI-driven advice, alerts, and transactions remain secure, accurate, and explainable.
AI Security Available as SaaS Point Solutions
AI Red Team and AI Guardrails are available as software offerings that can be deployed individually as point solutions or together as a unified platform. This flexibility lets banks and investment firms secure their AI applications in the way that best fits their risk posture and compliance obligations.
The Bottom Line
Our suite of AI runtime security solutions secures the Banking & Investment Services vertical by validating, protecting, and governing AI applications — helping financial institutions innovate with confidence while staying secure and compliant.
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