FintechOS and Fort Forge Powerful Alliance for Cybersecurity Revolution

FintechOS and Fort Forge Powerful Alliance for Cybersecurity Revolution

At a glance

• Extended partnership: FintechOS announced on April 9, 2025, that it is extending its work with Romanian cybersecurity firm Fort as it expands in the US, UK and Europe.
• Four years in: Fort has provided security services to FintechOS for more than four years, including SOC-as-a-Service and DevSecOps consulting.
• Certifications: Fort helped FintechOS secure its operations to achieve SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification in Europe and the US.
• Why it matters to customers: Banks and insurers require vendors to pass third-party risk assessments before they buy.

FintechOS keeps Fort as it grows abroad

FintechOS, a UK-based company founded in 2017 with roots in Romania, sells a low-code platform that banks and insurers use to launch and manage financial products. It raised $60 million in a Series B round in May 2024 to fund its global expansion. Now it is extending its partnership with Fort, the Bucharest-based cybersecurity services firm that has protected it since its startup days.

What Fort does for FintechOS

Fort, founded in 2015, has about 40 security professionals. It offers risk assessments, penetration testing, compliance consulting, incident response and SOC-as-a-Service, and for FintechOS it has run security operations and DevSecOps consulting while its CISO team maintained the company’s information security management system.

The extension is about compliance as much as defense. Banks, insurers and other financial institutions put vendors through mandatory third-party risk assessments during procurement. Fail one and the deal stalls.

Certifications and audits

Fort says it helped FintechOS reach SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification in Europe and the US. Its compliance work also covers financial-sector rules such as DORA in the EU, PSD2, EBA guidelines and PCI DSS.

For a vendor selling into regulated institutions, those certifications open doors. Without them, many procurement processes stop before they start. The partnership keeps an outside team on hand.

What changes for FintechOS clients

For FintechOS’s customers, the practical effect is continuity: the same security partner that supported the company’s growth from a Romanian startup stays in place as it moves into new markets with different regulators and different audit demands.

Other fintech vendors face the same pressure from bank procurement teams. Many will need outside help to meet it.

Compliance as a sales requirement

This is a continuation of a long-running relationship rather than a new alliance. It shows how much of a fintech vendor’s growth now depends on passing customers’ security reviews. Certifications sell.

John King, CISSP, PMP, CISM

John King currently works in the greater Los Angeles area as a ISSO (Information Systems Security Officer). John has a passion for learning and developing his cyber security skills through education, hands on work, and studying for IT certifications.