Prove the Control, Not Just the Scan
DORA wants evidence of a process. PCI DSS wants evidence of a test. Your enterprise customers want evidence that neither one runs through a vendor you cannot name. Whitespots keeps the findings database on your infrastructure and the audit trail in one place.
Data stays where the DPA says
Source code, findings and remediation history never leave your infrastructure — the answer to "which sub-processor sees this" is nobody.
Evidence of a process, not a PDF
Continuous scanning with a dated record per finding is what an ICT risk-management review is looking for. A quarterly report is not.
Shorter security questionnaires
Enterprise and banking customers ask where their code is processed. Self-hosted turns a page of caveats into one sentence.
Access that fits your organisation
Create the roles your teams actually need, and give each one only the access it requires.
What Financial Engineering Teams Run Into
Fintech has no shortage of scanners. It has a shortage of defensible answers about what happened to their output, who saw it and when it was fixed.
Your vendor becomes your customer's problem
A SaaS scanner becomes a fourth party for every bank you sell to. Each bank has to assess it, and it can be the reason they say no.
Findings that expire before they are fixed
A pentest is a point in time. Between two of them, dependencies churn and a regulator's question about "ongoing" management has no data behind it.
Payment surface with its own rules
Card-data flows carry requirements the rest of your systems do not — script integrity on payment pages, change control, and testing after every significant change.
Legacy core beside a cloud-native front
The ledger nobody rewrites and the microservice shipped last week sit in the same audit scope, and most tooling covers only one of them well.
What the Frameworks Actually Require
The obligations that touch application security specifically — separated from the far larger set that does not.
ICT risk management · register of information
Identify, classify and continuously monitor ICT risk, including vulnerabilities in the systems supporting critical functions, and maintain a register of every ICT third-party arrangement.
How Whitespots helps
Continuous scanning with a per-finding history covers the monitoring side. Self-hosting does not remove the register entry — on-premise software is an enumerated ICT service type — but it removes the sub-processing chain behind it.
secure software
Bespoke and custom software developed securely, with vulnerabilities identified and ranked, and changes reviewed before release.
How Whitespots helps
Quality gates block pull requests with findings and explain why, with the risk and remediation steps for each one — the evidence a QSA asks to see.
payment-page scripts
Every script loaded into the consumer payment page is authorised, its integrity assured, and an inventory maintained with written justification.
How Whitespots helps
Scanning is not limited to the repository. Domain, host and cloud scans check what is actually deployed, so you can confirm that only reviewed code reached the payment page.
vulnerability scans
Internal and external vulnerability scans on a defined cadence and after significant change, with findings resolved and rescans performed.
How Whitespots helps
The platform is connected to your VCS and registries. Scans run on every change and on a schedule you set, so both the regular cadence and the rescan after each fix come from the same process.
vulnerability scanning · system testing
Automated vulnerability scanning at a frequency matched to each asset's classification — at least weekly for assets supporting critical or important functions — and testing of ICT systems before use, commensurate to their criticality.
How Whitespots helps
Set business criticality per product. A built-in assessment asks what data each service handles, how it affects the business and which regulations apply — so a finding in the payment service is treated as a bigger risk than one in an internal docs repository.
security of processing
A process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical measures — and controls over every processor in the chain.
How Whitespots helps
The regular testing is continuous and recorded. The processor chain is short: the platform runs on your infrastructure and sends nothing out.
Framework references reflect published text as of August 2026 and describe obligations, not a certification we grant. Confirm scope and current wording with your compliance function or QSA. Self-hosting changes who processes your vulnerability data; it does not by itself satisfy any requirement.
What Whitespots Gives a Fintech Security Team
Built around the two things regulated buyers keep asking for: continuity of the process, and a short list of who touches the data.
The third-party section of every questionnaire gets short
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No sub-processors to name Nothing to add to a customer DPA.
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Zero outbound data No code, findings, logs or usage data leave your servers.
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Leave whenever you want Exit is a database export, not a vendor negotiation.
Show auditors a timeline, not a quarterly snapshot
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Every finding dated From first detection to closure, triggered by commits and schedule.
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Deadlines you can prove you met SLAs per severity for verification, assignment and resolution.
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Fixes confirmed automatically The next scan validates each fix.
Keep the tools your QSA knows, drop the four dashboards
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One flaw is one finding SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container and DAST results deduplicated.
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Triage a false positive once Suppressed findings stay suppressed.
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In-house scanners welcome Added without waiting on a vendor roadmap.
Fix what matters to the business first
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Critical services ranked first Business criticality and data impact assessed per service.
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Accepted risk that expires Temporary risk acceptance with an end date.
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Audit-ready at any moment Exportable reports for internal audit and external review.
Where It Lands
The four requests that arrive most often, and what answers them.
- Scenario
A banking customer sends a 300-question security review
With Whitespots platformThe sub-processor and data-location sections collapse to one answer.
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An ICT risk review asks for continuous monitoring evidence
With Whitespots platformA dated per-finding history rather than a folder of quarterly PDFs.
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A QSA asks how a payment-page script got there
With Whitespots platformDomain and host scans show what is actually served, not only what is in the repository.
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A critical CVE lands in a shared dependency
With Whitespots platformAffected services identified across all services in one query, with owners attached.
Already Running in Payments
Payment providers, banking platforms and cross-border transfer companies are among the platform's longest-running deployments. Names are withheld here pending each customer's sign-off.
Licensed bank · EU
Adopted self-hosted scanning after a data-residency clause ruled out the incumbent SaaS vendor mid-procurement.
Cross-border payments platform
Runs one instance of the platform across several regulated entities, each reporting separately.
Payments infrastructure provider
Uses pull-request quality gates on the card-data services so every change leaves change-control evidence.
What Fintech Teams Ask First
Does self-hosting remove our DORA register-of-information entry?
No. On-premise software is an enumerated ICT service type in the register taxonomy, so the arrangement is still recorded. What changes is what sits behind the entry: no third-party processing of your vulnerability data and no subcontracting chain to map or re-assess.
Will this satisfy PCI DSS requirement 6 on its own?
No tool satisfies a requirement on its own — the requirement is about your process. What the platform provides is the evidence that process produces: ranked findings, pull requests blocked before release, resolution dates and fix validation, all in one exportable record.
Our customers ask for a list of sub-processors. What do we tell them?
That the application security platform runs inside your own infrastructure and transmits neither source code nor findings outward. That is usually the shortest section of the questionnaire rather than the longest.
We have a mainframe-era core alongside cloud services. Does that work?
The findings database is scanner-agnostic, so whatever tooling covers the legacy stack feeds the same model as the modern one. You get a single view without forcing one scanner across two very different codebases.
How is risk acceptance handled?
A risk can be accepted permanently, or temporarily for a set number of days. When a temporary acceptance expires, the finding returns to the queue, so it cannot quietly become permanent. If the follow-up needs an owner, create a task for it in your issue tracker.
Can one instance cover several regulated entities?
Yes. Scoping and roles are per-entity and per-product in a single instance, so a group can report separately without running separate tools.
Shorten the Third-Party Section of Every Questionnaire
Start with a free external scan of the surface your customers can already see, or talk to us about a self-hosted deployment scoped to your regulated entities.