Cybersecurity and Risk Technology for Financial Firms
Protect your firm, meet regulatory expectations, and build investor trust.
Cybersecurity isn’t just a technology issue—it’s a business imperative. Financial firms face increasing scrutiny from regulators, investors, and clients, and the consequences of compliance failures, data breaches, or operational lapses can be severe.
That’s why ACA’s ComplianceAlpha® platform includes a dedicated cybersecurity and risk oversight solution, purpose-built to help financial firms go beyond checkbox compliance. With automated workflows, customizable controls, and a centralized view of cyber risk, we help you build a defensible, proportionate program aligned to your firm’s size, complexity, and risk.
Our solution combines strategic assessments, practical oversight, and real-time insights—backed by a team of regulatory and cybersecurity experts who understand the realities of financial services.
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What do you need help with?
Trusted by asset managers, alternative asset managers as well as their portfolio companies, our tech-enabled solutions are tailored to each firm’s regulatory obligations, operating model, and risk profile.
Assess and build my program
Build a solid foundation with cyber and information security policy development, security awareness training, and strategic advisory—delivered by cybersecurity, regulatory experts.
Satisfy my firm’s regulatory requirements
Demonstrate compliance with regulatory cyber mock exams, readiness assessments that consider global frameworks and emerging mandates, including SEC, FCA, NFA, DFSA, FSRA, GDPR, CCPA, DORA, the EU AI Act, FCA Operational Resilience, and Regulation S-P.
Prepare my firm to respond and recover from business disruptions
Enhance business continuity with incident response planning, tabletop exercises, and resilience testing—plus embedded support to ensure your firm stays prepared.
Evaluate my cybersecurity defenses
Proactive cyber and technology risk assessments, penetration testing, phishing simulations, vulnerability assessments, and cloud security reviews. Educate and improve awareness across your firm with tailored employee training.
Gain oversight of portfolio company risk
Apply the right level of portfolio governance with customizable scoring models, and centralized documentation for a transparent understanding of portfolio risk.
Manage my firm’s third-party risk
Strengthen your vendor oversight with automated vendor due diligence, risk scoring, and centralized documentation—supported by expert guidance and ongoing monitoring.
Ready to reduce regulatory risk through smarter cybersecurity?
Discover how the ACA ComplianceAlpha® platform combined with expert cyber guidance can help you protect your assets, meet regulatory demands, and demonstrate firm-wide cyber readiness.
Let us help you protect your firm.
Contact our team today to learn more about our cybersecurity, risk management, and privacy services.
Client perspectives
We’re certain we can be your ideal partner. But our clients say it best.
As we realized the increasing complexities when managing the cybersecurity issues of our portfolio companies, we started having conversations about getting outside help and ultimately decided to go with ACA.
– Steve Cherington Head of Operations, Ara Partners
With ACA Vantage, we now have increased visibility into where companies stand in terms of their vulnerabilities and their risk levels.
Jeff Steinhorn, Operating Partner, Gridiron Capital
Why ACA?
Here’s what sets us apart:
More than just tech
Our cybersecurity specialists and regulatory advisers, partner with firms to implement effective, proportionate, and scalable solutions—not one-size-fits-all templates.
Designed to stand up to scrutiny
Whether facing investor due diligence or a regulatory exam, our guidance and support are built to help firms answer the scrutiny they are presented with.
Sector-specific insight
We understand the complexity of financial services regulation—and build tailored cybersecurity programs that address it.
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