Architectural Velocity vs. Agentic Threats in Banking

The Threat Landscape Has Fundamentally Changed

You're facing a cybersecurity environment where the rules no longer favor defenders. Exploitation now routinely precedes patch availability. 

This leads to a compounding crisis for banks. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) doesn't treat a documented, unremediated vulnerability as an operational risk; it treats it as a standalone compliance failure, with consequences ranging from capital add-ons to public executive censure.

This white paper, authored by Lars Fetzer, Director of Advisory Consulting, and Dennis Joosten, Head of Banking Practice, gives C-suite leaders the strategic framework to close that gap.

What You'll Find Inside

The New Economics of Automated Attack

Frontier AI models now autonomously discover zero-day vulnerabilities, reverse-engineer closed-source software and generate working exploits at a cost of tens of dollars per finding. Proprietary code is no longer protected by obscurity. The white paper explains precisely what this capability shift means for your institution's risk posture.

The DORA Compliance Imperative

DORA mandates specific remediation timelines, structured incident notification and documented ICT risk management frameworks. The white paper maps the regulatory obligations your institution faces today, drawing on enforcement precedents, to illustrate the supervisory direction DORA now codifies for EU institutions.

A Three-Horizon Response Framework

The white paper outlines a coordinated response across three fronts:

• Operational: Remediating existing vulnerabilities within DORA's regulatory timelines using AI-assisted tooling, including approaches that compress median remediation from weeks to under 28 minutes
• Tactical: Embedding agentic AI into the software development lifecycle, from pre-deployment vulnerability gates to continuous post-deployment monitoring
• Strategic: Reassessing whether your application architecture can sustain the deployment velocity the threat environment demands

Frontier AI can find a critical vulnerability in your systems for under $50 per run. When your average remediation time is 74 days, that gap isn't an operational problem; it's a structural one, and it's getting wider. Download your copy of the white paper for exclusive insights into how to close that gap.