End-to-End AWS Security


for a Leading FinTech Platform in UAE

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About the Customer:

A unified payment platform provider offering advanced credit scoring, automated lending workflows, and customer experience optimization, operating extensively on AWS to support growth and operational efficiency.

Customer Challenges:
  • Strengthened overall cloud security posture while continuously operating payments workloads on AWS, with expert monitoring and rapid operationalization of security controls.
  • Implemented routine vulnerability scanning across AWS resources with actionable reporting for decision-making.
  • Ensured adherence to cloud security best practices and compliance standards (CIS AWS Foundations, PCI DSS, HIPAA, ITSMF, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK, SOC 2).
  • Delivered 24x7 threat detection and response across accounts, networks, hosts, and APIs, with triage and incident visibility.
  • Provided network-layer protections including DDoS defense and continuous monitoring for emerging threats.
  • Managed data privacy events: sensitive data discovery, key and certificate management, malware scanning, and unintended transmission detection.
Our Solution:

Vulnerability Management:

Routine scanning of AWS infrastructure resources for known software vulnerabilities. AWS metadata for scanned AWS infrastructure is available as part of scan results to better enable reporting and decision making.

Adhering to Cloud Security Best Practices and Compliance:

Our experts help detecting when AWS accounts and the configuration of deployed resources do not align to security best practices while scanning your AWS environment for common compliance standards such as: CIS AWS Foundations, PCI DSS, HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT@CK, and SOC2.

24x7 Threat Detection and Response:

A combination of automated tooling and mPHATEK's security experts continuously monitors aggregated AWS resource logs across network, host, and API layers to analyze and triage security events. Identified alerts are made available for customers to view, allowing them to incorporate remediation into their operational workflows.

Network Security:

A system backed by technology and our security experts monitoring 24/7 for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against your AWS applications and known or emerging network threats that seek to exploit known vulnerabilities.

Data Privacy Event Management:

A fully managed service that discovers sensitive data in unintended locations, manages encryption keys and certificates, scans files for malware, and detects unintended transmission of sensitive data.

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Benefits to the customer
  • Faster path to fully operational cloud security with 24/7 expert monitoring and incident readiness, improving overall security posture.
  • Reduced risk exposure through continuous vulnerability scanning, automated compliance alignment, and prioritized remediation visibility.
  • Stronger resilience against DDoS and emerging network threats, supporting availability of payment services.
  • Enhanced data protection via discovery of misplaced sensitive data, robust key and certificate management, malware scanning, and prevention of unintended data transmission .