Five Iron Technologies

Five Iron Technologies, which also writes its name as 5iron, runs a security operations centre as a service built for financial institutions. Its analysts watch a client's systems at all hours, look into unusual activity and act on weaknesses they find. Its testimonials come from banks in several American states.

What Five Iron Technologies offers

• SOC as a service: continuous monitoring of a client environment, with investigation of and response to suspicious activity.
• Attack surface review: finding the points where an intruder could get into a network and closing them off.
• Email protection: defences aimed at staff inboxes, which the firm treats as the most targeted part of a bank.
• Management systems: its own in-house tools for running and tuning client protection.

Customers and markets

The service is aimed at banks and similar financial institutions. Client quotes come from information security officers, chief information officers and operating officers at banks in South Dakota, Mississippi and Tennessee, one of whom notes the work held up in an audit.