Keystrike is a continuous remote access governance platform that validates every privileged action in banking and financial services environments in real time. Unauthorized commands are blocked before execution. Continuous session evidence supports compliance with PCI DSS, FFIEC, DORA, and NYDFS requirements. Keystrike strengthens and completes your existing security stack.
MFA and PAM protect the login. Nothing governs what happens inside the session.
PCI DSS, FFIEC, NYDFS, and DORA require demonstrable controls over privileged access, not just access logs. Keystrike provides continuous, session-level evidence that enforcement was active throughout every session.
Credential stuffing, account takeover, and session hijacking bypass MFA entirely. Keystrike blocks unauthorised commands before they execute, protecting payment rails and customer data in real time, and prevents the consequences of:
Vendors, partners, and remote employees require privileged access to operate. Keystrike governs every third-party session without disrupting workflows or requiring additional authentication steps.
Attackers don't need to break into banking systems. They operate inside legitimate remote sessions using valid credentials.
Pass-the-hash attacks and Kerberos delegation abuse allow adversaries to hijack SWIFT and ACH payment sessions, injecting fraudulent transactions after authentication has already succeeded. MFA confirms the login. It does not verify what happens inside the session once access is granted.
Payment Rail Hijacking Through Legitimate Remote Sessions
Attackers no longer need to break into banking systems, they operate inside legitimate remote sessions. Pass-the-hash attacks and Kerberos delegation abuse allow adversaries to hijack SWIFT and ACH payment sessions using valid credentials, injecting fraudulent transactions after authentication has already succeeded. MFA confirms the login. It does not verify what happens to the session once access is granted.
A ransomware attack on an Indian payment processor exploited RDP sessions to compromise a partner system, blocking 300 rural banks from accessing funds. Keystrike blocks RDP input from unconfigured workstations and alerts administrators in real time — regardless of credential validity.
Keystrike closes this gap by continuously validating that every command inside the session originates from verified physical input on an approved device — blocking injected activity before funds move.
Credential Theft and Data Exfiltration Through Legitimate Sessions
Attackers harvest remote access tokens to enter sensitive systems as legitimate users — accessing customer PII, internal data, and downstream infrastructure without triggering anomaly alerts. Because the session appears authorised, detection tools have no signal to act on.
In the Santander breach affecting an estimated 30 million customers, attackers used stolen login credentials to remotely access a data warehouse and move laterally across systems. With Keystrike, stolen credentials cannot be reused remotely without physical access to an authorised workstation.
Keystrike closes this gap by requiring that every command be cryptographically attested to physical keystrokes and mouse clicks on an approved workstation. Stolen credentials alone cannot generate valid attestation.
Social Engineering and Persistent Session Abuse Through Native Tools
After gaining an initial foothold through social engineering, attackers blend into legitimate session activity — masquerading as the target user, using native tools, and maintaining persistent access for days or weeks. These attacks are cheap to mount and specifically designed to evade pattern-based detection models.
In the OCC breach (2023–2025), attackers compromised an administrator account and lurked undetected for over a year, accessing 150,000+ emails from senior staff. The breach was not discovered until February 2025. Keystrike limits attacker exposure to minutes — not months.
Keystrike closes this gap by introducing a definitive, binary signal: physical human input. Commands either originate from verified physical interaction on an approved device — or they do not. There is no statistical baseline to game.
Every tool in your stack protects a boundary. None of them govern what happens inside the live session.
| Tool | What It Does | What It Cannot Do | What Keystrike Adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firewall / ZTNA | Controls network access at the perimeter | Cannot see inside authenticated sessions | Governs every command inside the live session |
| MFA / IAM / PAM | Verifies identity at login; manages credentials | Stops at the session boundary; no in-session enforcement | Cryptographically attests every action inside the session |
| EDR / XDR | Detects endpoint anomalies and threats | Cannot block commands inside authenticated remote sessions | Blocks unattested commands before they execute |
| SIEM / SOAR | Aggregates logs; triggers alerts on past events | Reactive — sees what happened, cannot stop it | Feeds binary cryptographic signals that make every alert more accurate |
Keystrike does not record keystrokes, credentials, or session content. Verification is cryptographic and deterministic — not pattern-based — eliminating false positives and privacy concerns.
Every privileged session produces continuous, cryptographically attested governance evidence that satisfies regulatory requirements as a direct output of enforcement, not as a separate compliance process.
Keystrike supports compliance with FFIEC, OCC, GLBA, PCI DSS, NYDFS (23 NYCRR Part 500), California DFPI/CCPA, and other banking cybersecurity mandates through continuous session verification, deterministic policy enforcement, and audit-ready evidence across every remote action.
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) requires EU financial institutions to maintain robust ICT risk management, continuous oversight of third-party access, and verifiable operational resilience. Keystrike supports DORA compliance through continuous session governance (Article 9), tamper-evident session records (Article 11), governed third-party vendor sessions (Article 15), and verifiable enforcement for operational resilience testing (Article
Every privileged session in your banking environment is deterministically governed. Keystrike enforces session policy through deterministic, immediate enforcement inside active sessions, providing provable assurance that authorized users operate within policy and that unauthorized commands are blocked before execution.
Know that every privileged session in your banking environment is deterministically controlled. Keystrike enforces session policy in real time with zero false positives — provable assurance that authorised users operate within policy and unauthorised commands never execute.
Generate tamper-evident audit records for every governed session — automatically satisfying FFIEC, PCI DSS, DORA, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, and GLBA requirements. Compliance becomes a direct output of governance, not a separate evidence-gathering exercise.
Map every remote access protocol across your environment in real time. Keystrike shows which sessions are governed, which protocols are active, and where governance gaps remain: across RDP, SSH, PowerShell Remoting, WinRM, WMI, and SMB.
A lightweight agent on the operator's device verifies legitimate physical keystrokes and mouse clicks, then submits cryptographic attestations to the central Keystrike service. Every command is either verified or blocked. There is no probabilistic model, no behavioral baseline, and no detection delay.
A lightweight agent on the operator's device verifies legitimate physical keystrokes and mouse clicks, submitting cryptographic attestations to the central Keystrike service. No session content is captured or stored.
A second lightweight agent on the destination server withholds all input until proof of legitimacy is received. Attested input executes. Unattested input — from scripts, injected commands, or compromised sessions — is blocked before execution and an alert is generated in real time.
Keystrike maps all remote access protocols across your environment — RDP, SSH, PowerShell Remoting, WinRM, WMI, and SMB — surfacing which sessions are governed, which protocols are active, and where governance gaps remain.
Session hijacking, credential abuse, and payment rail fraud all exploit the same blind spot: the gap between access granted and access governed. Keystrike makes every privileged session visible, verifiable, and policy-enforced, without replacing your existing security stack.
Yes. Keystrike provides continuous session-level enforcement and cryptographically attested governance evidence that directly supports PCI DSS 4.0 requirements for privileged access governance, including requirements 7, 8, and 10. Evidence is produced as a direct output of enforcement, not assembled as a separate compliance process.
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) requires financial institutions to maintain robust ICT risk management, monitoring, and third-party oversight. Keystrike supports DORA compliance through continuous session governance (Article 9), tamper-evident session records (Article 11), governed third-party sessions (Article 15), and verifiable enforcement for resilience testing (Article 26).
No. Despite the name, Keystrike is not a keylogger. The workstation agent verifies that input originates from physical human interaction on an approved device through cryptographic attestation. It does not capture, record, or store the content of any keystrokes, commands, or session activity.
SIEM systems log and correlate security events after they occur. Keystrike governs the live session in real time, blocking unauthorised commands before they execute. Keystrike completes the security stack: IAM/PAM grants access, SIEM logs events, Keystrike governs what happens during the session.
Yes. Keystrike integrates with existing IAM, PAM, MFA, SIEM, and EDR infrastructure. It adds the session governance layer without requiring any rip-and-replace. Authorised users experience no workflow changes.
Keystrike provides live visibility and governance across all remote access protocols used in banking and financial services environments, including RDP, SSH, PowerShell Remoting, WinRM, WMI, and SMB. Keystrike maps all active sessions in real time, surfacing unmanaged assets, ungoverned clients, and coverage gaps across your environment. Unverified commands over RDP and SSH are automatically blocked before execution.
Yes. Keystrike provides continuous session governance for privileged sessions that interact with payment rails including SWIFT, ACH, and other financial messaging systems. Every command within these sessions must be cryptographically attested to verified physical input on an approved device, preventing payment rail hijacking, fraudulent transaction injection, and credential-based attacks before commands execute.
Keystrike uses deterministic, cryptographic verification, not probabilistic or pattern-based detection. A command either has valid attestation from a verified physical operator on an approved device, or it does not. There is no behavioral model, no statistical baseline, and no detection threshold to generate false positives.