Built for finance
Basalt's Singapore CBD practice has been working finance threat profiles long enough to know which controls actually move the dial — and which line items quietly waste budget. We bring that pattern recognition in week one.
Singapore CBD finance organisations face wire-transfer fraud, instant-payment abuse and identity-driven account takeover. Basalt's cyber security consulting practice tests against that real threat profile, not a generic Singapore-wide playbook. Independent cyber security consulting that aligns your security investment with the risks that actually matter to your business — board-ready reporting, no vendor bias, measurable outcomes.
The finance, fintech, HQs concentration around Singapore CBD sees wire-transfer fraud, instant-payment abuse and identity-driven account takeover. Our cyber security consulting work in Downtown Core is scoped against this real threat profile, not a generic checklist.
Every finding ships with a control reference against MAS TRM and Cybersecurity Act 2018, with CSA / MAS guidance cited where it changes the remediation priority. Board reporting follows the MAS Notice 655 expectation set.
Basalt delivers cyber security consulting to organisations across Singapore CBD and the wider Downtown Core region (population ~3k). The finance, fintech, HQs sectors that anchor the region face a distinct threat profile — wire-transfer fraud, instant-payment abuse and identity-driven account takeover — and our engagements are scoped to that, not a generic playbook. Reporting maps cleanly to the MAS TRM and Cybersecurity Act 2018 that Singaporean boards already use, with regulator context (CSA / MAS) called out where it changes a remediation priority.
Basalt's Singapore CBD practice has been working finance threat profiles long enough to know which controls actually move the dial — and which line items quietly waste budget. We bring that pattern recognition in week one.
Findings ship with control references against MAS TRM and Cybersecurity Act 2018 and remediation guidance written for the team that has to action it. Your board, your auditor, and your on-call engineer all get something they can use.
Basalt doesn't resell tooling. Singaporean finance clients get an independent read on what's working, what isn't, and what's costing more than it should — not a thinly-veiled sales pipeline.
Cyber security in Singapore can't be done with last year's threat models. The Basalt practice runs against current attacker tradecraft — agentic AI abuse, MCP and AI-tool supply chain, post-quantum readiness — alongside the legacy infrastructure work that still keeps most organisations awake at night.
Most Singapore CBD engagements scope inside one week and start within two. Retainer clients can trigger work the same day. We do not pipeline Singaporean clients through junior teams — a senior consultant scopes and runs the work end-to-end.
Both. Sensitive work — classified-adjacent environments, live incident response, OT walkthroughs — gets on-site time in Singapore CBD and the wider Downtown Core region. Routine assessments and detection engineering run remote with a tight feedback loop.
Every finding ships with a control reference against the MAS TRM and Cybersecurity Act 2018 so your compliance team is not re-mapping our report. Where CSA / MAS guidance exists for the specific finding, we cite it inline. Board-level reporting follows the MAS Notice 655 expectation set.
The finance sector concentration in Singapore CBD drives a different threat model than a generic Singaporean engagement — wire-transfer fraud, instant-payment abuse and identity-driven account takeover. Our scoping reflects that, and so does the test library we bring to the work.
Yes — this is core to how we work. Basalt actively researches and tests against agentic AI tool-abuse and indirect prompt injection at scale, MCP server and AI-tool supply chain compromise and identity-first attack chains across federated SaaS. Most regional providers haven't mapped these attack paths; we run them in production against client systems with explicit scope.
Adversarial testing for LLMs and AI systems
CREST-aligned penetration testing
Source code review and SAST/DAST integration
ITDR for identity-driven attacks