Field notes
Short notes from cybersecurity control audits for fintech apps — written for security, engineering, and risk partners.
Evidence beats a polished policy PDF
Auditors and investors ask how a control ran last month — not how eloquently it was written.
Privileged access is where fintech apps leak trust
Shared admin roles and forgotten break-glass accounts show up in nearly every access review we run.
Release gates that nobody owns are not controls
A scanner in CI only counts if failures block merges and someone owns the exception path.