GLBA penetration testing

GLBA Penetration Testing Services

Test applications, APIs, cloud, and networks that handle customer information. Get validated findings, practical remediation guidance, and reporting aligned to the FTC Safeguards Rule.

GLBA

GLBA penetration testing for financial institutions

Focus testing on the applications, access paths, and infrastructure that could expose customer information or disrupt critical financial services.

Safeguards Rule testing

Test the controls protecting customer information

Assess authentication, authorization, data exposure, session handling, encryption boundaries, and segmentation through realistic attack paths.

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Risk-based scope

Follow customer information across your environment

Scope customer portals, financial applications, APIs, cloud services, identity systems, external infrastructure, internal networks, and critical integrations.

Remediation evidence

Track findings through remediation

Use the Blaze Portal to assign findings, document fixes, and keep available validation evidence organized for security and compliance teams.

Where penetration testing supports GLBA

Testing can support required safeguard evaluation. It does not replace a complete GLBA compliance assessment or determine which provisions apply to your institution.

Section

Requirement

How Blaze helps support it

§314.4(b)

Risk Assessment

Identifies exploitable risks to the security, confidentiality, and integrity of customer information across in-scope systems.

§314.4(c)

Safeguards Design

Tests whether implemented safeguards — access controls, encryption, MFA, change management, and logging — hold against real attack paths.

§314.4(d)

Monitoring & Testing

Documents a scoped penetration test that may support §314.4(d)(2) when annual testing is the institution’s chosen path.

§314.4(f)

Service Provider Oversight

Evaluates security controls for service providers or third-party systems that store, process, transmit, or access customer information.

§314.4(g)

Information Security Program Evaluation

Provides technical testing results your Qualified Individual can use to evaluate and adjust the program.

Clear evidence for security and compliance teams

A GLBA pentest should help engineers fix risk and give reviewers a clear record of what was tested.

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Relevant Safeguards Rule context

Connect validated findings to applicable safeguards without treating the pentest as a complete compliance assessment.

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Remediation workspace

Track findings, owners, fixes, and available validation evidence in one place.

Seal Check

Shareable reporting

Share scope, methodology, findings, and remediation status with security leaders, auditors, and examiners.

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CREST-accredited provider

Work with a named testing team, with findings reviewed before delivery and direct access throughout the engagement.

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Reusable technical evidence

Use relevant findings in other assurance work where scope and requirements align.

Lightning

Fix validation

Confirm whether agreed fixes address the original finding when validation is included.

Reuse relevant findings

Some findings may support other assurance work when scope and requirements align. Each framework still has its own assessment obligations.

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SOC 2

Use relevant security-control findings in customer assurance and SOC 2 work when scope aligns.

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02

ISO 27001

Use relevant technical evidence to support risk treatment and control evaluation when scope aligns.

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03

PCI DSS

Use relevant findings in PCI DSS testing where the cardholder data environment overlaps.

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Frequently asked questions

For covered institutions, the FTC Safeguards Rule requires continuous monitoring or annual penetration testing plus vulnerability assessments at least every six months and after material changes. Institutions maintaining customer information on fewer than 5,000 consumers are exempt from this specific provision.
It requires financial institutions under FTC jurisdiction to maintain an information security program that protects customer information. The rule covers risk assessment, safeguards, testing, incident response, service providers, and oversight.
Scope should follow customer information across customer portals, financial applications, APIs, cloud services, identity systems, external infrastructure, internal networks, and authorized third-party integrations.
Where effective continuous monitoring is not used, the rule calls for annual penetration testing based on identified risks. Vulnerability assessments are required at least every six months and after material changes or other circumstances that may affect the program.
No. Scanning identifies known weaknesses at scale. Penetration testing adds manual analysis, exploit validation, attack chaining, and business-logic testing to show what an attacker could reach.
No. It provides scoped technical evidence. Your Qualified Individual, compliance team, counsel, auditor, or regulator evaluates the wider information security program and whether the engagement meets applicable requirements.
Yes, where testing is authorized and in scope. Blaze can assess vendor-connected systems and integrations that store, process, transmit, or provide access to customer information.
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