Report
Secure, Comply, Grow: Evolving Priorities for Financial Institutions
This IDC report examines how financial institutions across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) are balancing cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and digital transformation amid growing cyber threats and economic pressures. It explores how AI, cloud adoption, open banking, and evolving regulations are reshaping security priorities while increasing operational complexity. The report highlights key challenges including ransomware, identity-based attacks, legacy infrastructure, regulatory requirements such as DORA and NIS2, and the need to secure sensitive financial data without slowing innovation. It concludes that organizations should adopt Zero Trust architecture, modernize security operations, automate compliance, strengthen cyber resilience, and implement cloud-native, identity-c
