Industry · STRICT crypto policy
QNSP for Regulated Finance & Banking
PQC for retail/wholesale banking, broker-dealers, and payment processors under PCI DSS, MAS TRM, DORA, and FedRAMP equivalents.
Quantum-safe key management, immutable audit trails, and tenant-isolated vaults for banks, broker-dealers, and payment processors operating under PCI DSS v4.0.1, MAS TRM, DORA, and emerging FedRAMP PQC mandates. Live compliance evaluation, not annual snapshots.
Threat model
What we're defending against
The HNDL, regulatory, and operational threats specific to this vertical.
Harvest-now, decrypt-later on long-life records
Transaction records, KYC files, and customer correspondence are retained for 7–30+ years. Anything captured in transit today is a CRQC target the moment a cryptographically relevant quantum computer arrives — historically estimated by NIST and major banks at ~2030–2035.
Cross-border data movement under conflicting regimes
A Singapore bank operating in the EU and US faces MAS TRM + GDPR + DORA + PCI DSS simultaneously. Snapshot-style annual audits leave gaps; regulators increasingly demand continuous evidence.
Vendor-key concentration risk
When one cloud KMS holds keys for KYC, settlement, and SWIFT messaging, a single compromise blast-radiuses every downstream regulator filing. Per-tenant cryptographic isolation contains the blast radius.
Compliance mapping
Frameworks this vertical operates under
QNSP supports continuous evaluation for 7 live frameworks; other named frameworks are architecturally supported with evidence available on request.
| Framework | How QNSP maps |
|---|---|
| PCI DSS v4.0.1 ↗ | Section 3 (Protect Account Data) maps to QNSP vault + crypto-policy enforcement; Section 10 (Log and Monitor) maps to audit-service immutable chains. |
| MAS TRM (Singapore) ↗ | Cryptographic Controls and Audit Logging sections require key-lifecycle evidence and tamper-evident logs — both produced by QNSP audit-service. |
| DORA (EU financial) | ICT third-party risk and incident-reporting obligations: QNSP exports continuous evidence packs and runs against multi-region failover. |
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 ↗ | A.8 (Asset management) and A.10 (Cryptography) anchored on QNSP crypto-inventory (CBOM) and crypto-policy-enforcement. |
| SOC 2 Type II ↗ | Common Criteria CC6 (Logical Access) and CC7 (System Operations) — RBAC, tenant isolation, real-time control evaluation. |
QNSP architecture
Capabilities mapped to this vertical
How QNSP services compose to meet this vertical's needs.
ML-KEM-768/1024 + ML-DSA-65/87 for transaction signing, rotation automation, BYOH HSM support
PQC-encrypted secret storage with retention locks and versioning for SOX/MAS evidence
ML-DSA-signed audit chain — every key operation, vault write, and policy decision is verifiable
Strict tier locks the bank to FIPS-finalized algorithms only; per-tenant policy
Continuous inventory of every cryptographic asset across the estate — including legacy RSA/ECDSA
Outcomes
What deploying QNSP for this vertical delivers
- ✓Strict crypto-policy tier — every signing operation uses ML-DSA-65 or stronger, every KEM uses ML-KEM-768 or stronger
- ✓Tamper-evident audit chain that survives regulator review without bespoke evidence assembly
- ✓Per-tenant isolation across business lines (retail / commercial / wealth) — single compromise does not cascade
- ✓Continuous compliance evidence (PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, MAS TRM) — not annual snapshots
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