Full 23 NYCRR 500 readiness for banks, insurers, mortgage servicers, and every other DFS-licensed entity. Compliance consulting, annual penetration testing, and 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service — engineered around the CISO's April 15 certification.
NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 applies to every person and entity operating under a license, registration, or similar authorization from the New York Department of Financial Services — banks, insurers, mortgage servicers, virtual currency businesses, and hundreds of other regulated categories.
The Second Amendment, effective November 2023 with staggered deadlines through November 2025, raised the bar dramatically. Multi-factor authentication across the environment. Endpoint detection and response. Annual penetration testing. Continuous vulnerability management. A written, tested incident response plan. A qualified CISO certifying compliance in writing every April 15 — and reporting material issues directly to the board.
Get it wrong, and the DFS can levy fines, suspend your license, or name-and-shame you in an enforcement action the whole industry will read. Q-Sec exists to make sure you don't.
We map your current state against each section of Part 500, close the gaps, and leave the CISO with defensible evidence for the April 15 certification.
Compliance consulting, penetration testing, and 24/7 SOC-as-a-Service — delivered by the same Q-Sec engineers. Flat pricing. Senior consultants. No endless SOW amendments.
Section-by-section gap assessment, risk assessment, policy authoring, §500.11 third-party program, BCDR alignment, and CISO-ready evidence for the April 15 certification.
External, internal, web, API, and cloud pen tests aligned to PTES/OWASP/MITRE ATT&CK — delivered by senior testers, re-test included, evidence pack formatted for your DFS filing.
24/7 SIEM + EDR monitoring, threat hunting, §500.14 anomaly detection, and the 72-hour §500.17 notification runbook — evidence preserved and audit-ready.
We've engineered out the delays. Onboarding in ten business days. Certification timelines depend on your starting point — we'll tell you exactly where you stand on day one.
Identify your covered-entity category, §500.19 exemptions, and audit scope. One call, clear output.
Engineers review your environment against all 23 sections of Part 500 — producing a prioritised plan.
We implement controls, close gaps, run the pen test, and document everything for the CISO.
Evidence pack, CISO certification of compliance, board report — filed on April 15, not April 14.
SOC-as-a-Service stays on watch. Next year's assessment starts where this one ends.
Predictable audits, clean certifications, and a SOC that doesn't miss the events that matter.
Specific engagements vary. Client names available under NDA.
Part 500 doesn't exist in a vacuum. Most DFS-licensed firms also face SOC 2, and multi-jurisdictional groups answer to EU regulators too. Q-Sec builds one control stack that covers all of them.
Financial services firms carrying both a DFS license and a SOC 2 report shouldn't certify the same environment twice. We map NYDFS sections to SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria so one implementation satisfies both.
US banks and insurers with EU operations also face DORA and NIS2. Our EU roots mean we understand those frameworks natively — and translate them into a single, compatible control program.
Most compliance firms tell you what's wrong. We fix it. Our engineers sit inside your environment — not on the other end of a 90-day engagement letter.
Engagements are priced flat. 50 endpoints or 5,000 — the fee doesn't change mid-quarter. No retainer creep, no per-alert billing.
Setup takes about ten business days. Then we start monitoring. While others spend six months on deployment, you're already protected.
When you call, you reach our SOC in Warsaw — not a chatbot or an outsourced queue. Human analysts, verified escalations, minutes not hours.
Every artefact we produce is formatted for the CISO's April 15 certification. No re-writing, no translation layer between consultant and regulator.
Incidents happen. The problem is not knowing about them. We make sure you do — fast, with context. No FUD. No vendor lock-in language.
SOC, MDR, Managed SIEM, and compliance consulting in one place. No stitching together vendors. No compliance tool that doesn't talk to your SOC.
Get a scoping call with a Q-Sec engineer. We'll tell you exactly where you stand, which sections are audit-sensitive, and what needs to happen before April 15 — before you commit to anything.
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