Security, compliance, and regulatory assurance for financial institutions

A single annual program covering security, compliance, and regulatory across your current products, entities, and future launches.

For whom?

Digital asset and payment infrastructure
Asset management companies
Banking, neobanks and fintech
Stablecoin and tokenization providers
Regulatory and central banking bodies

Why retain?

Predictable spend

Fixed monthly or annual fees make assurance costs easier to plan and budget.

Faster evidence delivery

Work can start within 24 hours, with agreed deliverables and less setup overhead.

Flexible service scope

Adjust the use of Hacken’s services to correspond with your priorities and workload.

Support for long-term goals

Evidence of previous work supports future certification and licensing requirements.

Services included

Security

Smart contract code review
Blockchain and protocol audit
AI system security review
Off-chain application code review
Penetration testing and red teaming
Cryptography security review
Deployment audit
Tokenomics and yield review

Compliance

ISO 27001 certification
SOC 2 Readiness
CCSS certification
ISO 42001 certification
Executive cybersecurity training
vCISO

Regulatory

CASP/VASP compliance (jurisdiction-agnostic)
VARA compliance
DORA compliance
EU AI Act compliance
NIS2 Readiness
Legal Advisory: corporate, tax, and fundraising

+ Bug bounty and DualDefense crowdsourced review+ Proof of Reserves verification+ Extractor 24/7 monitoring+ Risk intelligence+ Emergency room+ AI Auditor and consultancy

See how it fits your roadmap

Learn more about assurance and how it can benefit your long-term plans

One-time engagements vs continuous assurance

One-time engagements

Engagement model: Defined scope, deliverables, and timeline
Start of work: Start dates depend on scoping, procurement, and team availability
Coverage over time: Assesses an agreed scope at a specific point in time
Commercial model: Fees are agreed separately for each engagement
Accumulated context: Context may need to be re-established for each engagement
Compliance evidence: Reports and findings document a specific assessment

Hacken’s continuous assurance

Engagement model: Ongoing program with dedicated capacity and a 12-month minimum term
Start of work: Work can start the next business day after setup, subject to agreed capacity
Coverage over time: Supports recurring reviews as products, infrastructure, and threats change
Commercial model: One predictable annual fee for services covered by the program
Accumulated context: A dedicated team builds on knowledge of your architecture and past findings
Compliance evidence: Previous assessments evidence accumulates for future certifications of choice

Proven work track record with financial institutions

ADGM and Hacken Forge Partnership to Elevate Blockchain Security Standards

Apr 24, 20242 min read

How Hacken, Chainlink, Apex Group, and Bluprynt Advanced BMA’s Digital Asset Compliance

May 15, 20265 min read

Smart contract security assessment for Societe Generale-Forge

May 20243 min read

ERC-3643: Auditing the Permissioned Token Standard

Dec 20225 min read

Hacken Audits Europeum-EDIC’s Core Services

Sep 10, 20263 min read

Hacken Is Part of Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program

Mar 11, 20261 min read

Bybit Wins MiCAR License With Hacken’s Security Evidence

Jun 11, 20252 min read

European Blockchain Sandbox Announces the Selected Projects for the Second Cohort

Jun 14, 20247 min read

Get Hacken assurance in four steps

Scoping

Your operations, entities and priorities mapped into an agreed roadmap.

Proposal

A clear service scope, team capacity and commercial offer ready for approval.

Ramp up

Onboarding, access and context building for Hacken team before the paid term.

First workstreams

Start of assurance activities scheduled according to your roadmap.

Talk to sales

Discover speed and cost-efficiency for your operations under Hacken assurance.

FAQ — What you should know before?

Yes. The value comes from continuity and pre-approved capacity, and neither is available with a shorter commitment. If you need a single assessment, we will point you to a standard engagement.

The ramp-up buffer starts before the paid period, terms can extend to absorb delays, and monthly utilization reporting makes drift visible months before renewal. Capacity you have not used does not die with the term either. Any remaining balance carries over as a courtesy — three months past a 12-month term, six months past 24 months, nine months past 36 — so a slipped roadmap does not cost you the capacity you paid for.

Yes, assessment work draws on agreed capacity. Third-party licenses and bespoke R&D are quoted separately.

Yes, including entities that do not exist yet — no new contract, no additional fee.

Yes, and partners frequently ask us to. It is one of the highest-yield uses of the program before a launch or a license application.

Within days rather than after a procurement cycle. With a global bank, a first audit took 38 days from code-ready to kickoff; under a continuous agreement the assessment started the next day.

Yes. A dedicated account director, a delivery manager and lead auditors per discipline, with at least two senior auditors on every assessment. The same people stay with your program for its whole term, so the knowledge base of your systems builds rather than resets.

Only with your written approval, and we ask the same. Where you want visibility: joint case studies, security badges, portfolio publication and amplification.