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FFIEC

FFIEC Compliance

BalkanID simplifies your journey to FFIEC compliance by becoming your identity and access control plane, satisfying the Logical Security and User Security Controls examiners test in every engagement, with continuous evidence.

What teams tell us before they switch

The examiner asked to see our privileged access review for the core banking system. We gave them a spreadsheet from last quarter. They asked who reviewed it, what changed, and how we verified it. We had none of that.
We technically have a need-to-know access policy. What we can't show is that it's enforced consistently across all our systems, especially the ones that don't integrate with our IAM platform.
Every FFIEC exam flags the same thing: users with access they no longer need, service accounts nobody owns, and no independent monitoring of privileged activity. We patch it pre-exam. It comes back.
What is FFIEC?

The examination standard that governs how banks are assessed for IT risk.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council publishes the IT Examination Handbook, a set of booklets used by the OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, NCUA, and state regulators to assess financial institutions and their technology service providers. The Information Security Booklet and its Logical Security section define the user access and privileged access controls examiners test in every engagement. The standard requires that access follows the principle of least privilege, that privileged access is allocated on a need-to-use basis, that all privileged activity is independently logged and monitored, and that access rights are regularly reviewed and removed when no longer needed. These requirements apply to every system that supports the institution's operations, including legacy core banking platforms that lack modern APIs.
How BalkanID addresses FFIEC

Every logical security control
the examiner will test.

Six capabilities built around the access and privileged access controls the FFIEC Information Security Booklet defines, with continuous evidence, not a pre-examination sprint.
Least-privilege access, built into provisioning, not patched in later
Every new employee and contractor receives access aligned to their specific role from the HRIS, no broad defaults, no manual cleanup required. When the examiner asks how you enforce least privilege, the answer is the provisioning process itself, not a policy document.
Privileged access, need-to-use, auto-revoked, independently logged
BalkanID grants privileged access on request for a specific purpose, time-limited and auto-revoked when the session ends, no standing admin access, no shared privileged accounts. Every session is independently logged with grantor, justification, duration, and scope: exactly what examiners test for.
User enrollment, modification, deletion, all three, all documented
Joiners get role-appropriate access on Day 1 through an approved, logged workflow. Role changes trigger automatic recertification. Leavers are deprovisioned across every connected system with a verified completion log, no ticket goes unexecuted, no access lingers.
Access reviews, continuous, risk-ranked, examiner-ready
BalkanID replaces spreadsheet reviews with a continuous process, dormant accounts and over-privileged roles flagged in real time, surfaced to the right reviewer. Each campaign produces an evidence record with reviewer identity, decisions made, and access removed, available on demand.
Segregation of duties, conflicts found before the examiner does
BalkanID continuously analyses role assignments across financial systems, surfacing toxic combinations the moment they occur, a user who can both initiate and approve a payment, request and release a wire, or post and review a journal entry. Conflicts don't wait for examiner fieldwork to be discovered.
Third-party access, governed with the same rigour as internal users
Contractor and vendor identities sit in the same governance plane as employees, same access reviews, same least-privilege provisioning, same deprovisioning on contract end. Service accounts from technology service providers are included, not carved out as a special case.
Identity scope for FFIEC

Human. Non-human. Agentic.
All in one governance plane.

FFIEC logical security requirements apply to every identity that can reach the institution's systems and data, including the service accounts and automated processes that most institutions have never included in an access review.
Human Identities
Banking operations staff
IT administrators and DBAs
Executives with system access
Technology service providers
Terminated (access verified removed)
Non-Human Identities
Core banking service accounts
Batch processing and job identities
API tokens for financial interfaces
Integration and middleware accounts
Shared admin accounts (detected)
Agentic AI Identities
AI copilots with banking system access
RPA bots in transaction workflows
Automated reconciliation agents
AI fraud detection integrations
Purpose-scoped financial AI sessions
Access reviews

Every system the examiner
will ask about, in scope.

FFIEC examiners specifically test whether legacy core banking systems and applications without modern APIs are included in access reviews. BalkanID covers all three categories with the same evidence quality.
Connected financial systems
Native connectors · SCIM / REST
Entitlements pulled in real time, dormant accounts flagged continuously. SoD conflicts surfaced before examiner fieldwork. Evidence stored per review campaign and exportable on demand.
Workday
Oracle ERP
SAP
Active Directory
Okta
Azure AD
AWS IAM
Salesforce
ServiceNow
Automated evidence
Custom banking applications
Internal apps · REST / GraphQL
Internally-built banking tools connect via BalkanID's API or a custom connector. Access reviews run with the same least-privilege standard and produce the same examiner-ready evidence as commercial systems.
Custom treasury management tools
Proprietary loan origination systems
Internal compliance dashboards
Custom connector
Legacy core banking systems
No API · No SCIM · On-premise
AI operators govern legacy core banking and mainframe systems at the UI layer, no API required. The system that examiners always ask about and most IGA tools exclude is fully in scope, with complete evidence.
Legacy general ledger systems
Banking apps with no APIs
AI operator

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