A focused course, tailored for you
Security Engineering Evidence for Bank Audits
How to translate your technical security controls into the audit evidence packages that QSAs and regulators actually accept.
You engineered the control. The auditor cannot verify it. That is not a compliance problem, it is an evidence construction problem, and this course fixes it.
$199 one-time
Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.
Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.
Why this course
Senior security engineers at global banks carry two jobs simultaneously: build and operate the controls, and then retrospectively prove those controls exist to whoever is auditing this quarter. PCI DSS QSAs, SWIFT CSCF self-assessors, DORA ICT risk examiners, and internal audit all want different artefact formats for the same underlying security work. The result is that engineers spend weeks before each audit cycle reconstructing evidence that should have been captured at implementation time. Configuration screenshots, network traffic logs, vulnerability remediation records, access review outputs, and patch deployment histories all exist somewhere in the tooling. They just do not exist in the format the auditor wants, mapped to the control ID the auditor is testing, with the exception documentation the auditor needs to accept a compensating control. This course closes that gap.
The 12 modules
Module 1. What Auditors Test and What Engineers Build
Most audit failures in security engineering are not control failures, they are evidence failures. This module maps the gap between how engineers document their work (ticket closed, config pushed, alert resolved) and how auditors verify controls (requirement traceability, configuration baseline, test result, exception log). You will leave with a precise vocabulary for what each audit type requires and why the same underlying control can satisfy or fail an examiner depending solely on how its evidence is packaged.
Module 2. PCI DSS Control Mapping for Security Engineers
PCI DSS v4.0 requirements map directly to the security tooling categories you operate: network controls, vulnerability management, access control, logging and monitoring, cryptographic key management. This module walks through each requirement domain and identifies the specific configuration artefacts, test outputs, and policy documentation that a QSA will sample. You will build a requirement-to-artefact matrix for your own environment as the working output of this module.
Module 3. SWIFT CSCF Self-Assessment Evidence Construction
SWIFT Customer Security Controls Framework mandatory controls (1.1 through 2.9) each require specific evidence types that differ from PCI DSS. This module covers the SWIFT self-attestation process from an engineer's perspective: what configuration evidence satisfies 1.1 (security updates), what access review output satisfies 5.1 (logical access controls), and how to document 6.1 (operator session confidentiality) in an environment where multiple teams share the SWIFT infrastructure. A complete evidence checklist per mandatory control is the deliverable.
Module 4. DORA ICT Risk Evidence for Security Engineers
DORA's ICT risk management requirements (Articles 5 through 16) create specific evidence obligations for security engineers: ICT asset inventory with criticality classification, vulnerability and patch management records, third-party ICT provider dependency documentation, and incident classification records. This module translates each article into the specific technical artefacts your security tooling can produce, and shows how to structure those artefacts for both internal risk committee review and potential regulatory examination.
Module 5. Network Segmentation Evidence That Satisfies QSAs
PCI DSS scope reduction depends on demonstrating network segmentation controls that the QSA can independently verify. Diagrams do not satisfy this requirement. This module covers the four artefact types QSAs require for segmentation evidence: firewall rule export with cardholder data environment annotations, traffic flow validation test results, penetration test scope confirmation, and change management records for segmentation controls. You will produce a segmentation evidence package template that can be populated from your actual firewall and network monitoring tooling.
Module 6. Vulnerability Management Evidence and Remediation Trails
Vulnerability management programmes generate large volumes of data that auditors need in a specific format: scan results mapped to a scan schedule, remediation records with completion dates mapped to required timeframes, risk-accepted exceptions with approver documentation, and compensating control statements for vulnerabilities that cannot be patched within the required window. This module shows how to export and structure this data from common vulnerability management platforms so that the audit evidence package is generated as a byproduct of normal remediation workflow.
Module 7. SIEM and Logging Evidence for Compliance Audits
Auditors testing logging controls do not want to search your SIEM. They want a log retention policy, a log source inventory confirming which systems feed the SIEM and since when, a sample alert investigation record showing detection-to-response time, and evidence of periodic log review. This module covers how to extract each artefact from your SIEM configuration and how to structure the log source inventory to close the gap between what is configured to log and what the control requires.
Module 8. Access Control and Identity Evidence
Privileged access reviews, service account inventories, multi-factor authentication coverage records, and terminated-user deprovisioning audit trails are the four access control artefacts most frequently flagged as incomplete in financial services audits. This module walks through the IAM and PAM data exports that satisfy each artefact requirement, the review cadence documentation that satisfies the periodic review requirement, and the exception handling procedure that covers accounts that cannot be fully deprovisioned without breaking a production dependency.
Module 9. Compensating Controls and Exception Documentation
When a control cannot be implemented as specified in the framework, the compensating control and exception documentation process determines whether the finding is closed or carried forward. This module covers the PCI DSS compensating control worksheet, the SWIFT CSCF deviation request process, and the internal risk acceptance procedure that satisfies DORA's risk management documentation requirements. You will produce a reusable exception documentation template that includes the risk rationale, the compensating measure, the review date, and the approval record.
Module 10. Third-Party and Vendor Security Evidence
DORA Article 28 and PCI DSS Requirement 12.8 both require documented third-party security assessments. For security engineers, this means a vendor security assessment register, tracked contractual security obligations, and evidence of annual critical vendor control validation. This module covers the artefacts that satisfy each requirement, how to structure the register without a dedicated GRC tool, and what a vendor questionnaire response must contain to be accepted as audit evidence.
Module 11. Incident Response and ICT Incident Evidence Records
DORA Articles 17 through 23 impose specific documentation obligations on security engineers as first responders. This module covers the incident evidence record: timeline with technical evidence anchors, classification rationale against the major incident criteria, containment and recovery actions with configuration evidence, root cause analysis, and the post-incident report format for regulatory notification. You produce a template that can be completed during and immediately after a response.
Module 12. Building the Audit Evidence Workflow Into Engineering Operations
The final module covers the operational system: integrating evidence capture into your change management, vulnerability management, and incident response workflows so audit preparation is not a separate project. It covers the evidence repository structure for multiple simultaneous audit frameworks, the review cadence that keeps evidence current, and the handoff between engineering teams and the compliance function. You leave with a workflow blueprint scoped to your control environment.
How this addresses your situation
Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.
PCI DSS QSA asks for network segmentation evidence. You have a Visio diagram. The QSA needs a firewall rule export and a traffic validation test result. Module 5 covers exactly this gap.
SWIFT CSCF self-assessment is due. You know the controls are implemented but the evidence for mandatory control 1.1 is a mix of ticket references and configuration notes that are not in the required format. Module 3 builds the evidence checklist per mandatory control.
DORA examination cycle starts. Your ICT asset inventory exists in a spreadsheet maintained by someone else and does not include criticality classifications. Module 4 maps the DORA Articles to the specific technical artefacts your tooling can produce.
Internal audit raises a repeat finding on privileged access review completeness. The access review was conducted but the evidence trail does not show which accounts were reviewed on which date by which approver. Module 8 fixes this.
Who it is for
You are a security engineer with hands-on responsibility for controls: firewalls, SIEM, EDR, IAM, vulnerability management, cloud security posture. You have been through at least one formal regulatory audit and spent more time explaining your work to auditors than you spent doing the work. You want a systematic method for building audit-ready evidence as part of your normal engineering workflow, not as a fire drill before each assessment cycle.
Who this is NOT for. This course is not for GRC analysts who document controls they do not operate. It is not for audit managers who want a framework overview. It is written for engineers who actually configure, monitor, and maintain the security infrastructure and need to own the evidence package for that infrastructure.
How it arrives
Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.
Time investment. Twelve modules, each designed to be completed in one focused session. Total reading and template-completion time: approximately 10 to 12 hours across the full course.
FAQ
Is this relevant if my organisation uses a GRC tool like Archer or ServiceNow IRM?
Yes. GRC tools structure the evidence repository but they do not specify what technical artefacts satisfy each control requirement. This course covers the artefact layer: what to extract from your security tooling and how to structure it so it maps correctly to the control requirement, regardless of which GRC tool holds the final record.
Does this cover all three frameworks (PCI DSS, SWIFT CSCF, DORA) or do I need to choose?
All three are covered in separate modules. The implementation playbook is scoped to the frameworks your specific environment operates under, so if you are only subject to two of the three, the playbook reflects that.
How is this different from a compliance certification course?
Certification courses teach framework requirements. This course teaches engineering-level evidence construction: how to take the controls you already operate and produce the artefact package that satisfies those requirements. The audience is the engineer who has already read the framework, not the analyst who needs an introduction to it.
