Real-time SQL protection for financial data — with PCI-DSS evidence built in

Safe Boundary intercepts every query that touches cardholder data, financial records, and transaction history — blocking attacks, masking PAN and PII automatically, and generating PCI-DSS audit evidence without a compliance team.

Stack diagram — Payment processor → API service → Safe Boundary proxy → RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL

Spectral Core — Established 2004 · Microsoft Partner · Google Partner · ISO 27001 Certified

Financial data is the highest-value attack target

SQL injection remains the number one attack vector for financial databases. The financial sector averages $5.9M per breach — the highest of any industry outside healthcare. AI agents connected to payment systems, fraud models, and customer data pipelines add a new attack surface that legacy database security tools were never designed for.

The compliance burden matches the risk. PCI-DSS requires:

All access to cardholder data environments logged and monitored
Automatic masking of PAN data in all non-production contexts
Real-time detection and prevention of SQL injection
Structured audit evidence available for annual QSA review

Most teams spend 400+ engineering hours per year assembling this evidence manually. Safe Boundary generates it automatically.

What Safe Boundary enforces

PAN masking — automatic, real-time
Credit card numbers are detected and masked in query results before they reach any application, service, or AI agent. No manual column tagging. Masking modes: full redaction, partial (****-****-****-4242), or tokenization.
SQL injection prevention — semantic, not signature-based
Every incoming query is parsed and analyzed for destructive patterns. Attacks that exploit parameterization gaps, second-order injection, and stacked queries are caught at the proxy — before they reach the database engine.
Least-privilege enforcement at the database layer
Define exactly which tables, columns, and operations each service or AI agent can access. Enforced at the proxy, not trusted from the application.
Real human identity in the audit trail
Every query is attributed to the actual person or service — not just app_user. SSO with Okta, Azure AD, and SAML/OIDC maps connections to named individuals (PCI-DSS Requirement 8).
Time-limited access grants
Temporary elevated access for incidents, compliance reviews, or contractors — with automatic expiry. Every grant and query under it is logged.

PCI-DSS compliance evidence, automatically

Structured evidence packages from your query log:

Cardholder data access log — every query that touched PANs and financial records
Admin action log — privileged operations, DDL, permission changes
Daily review attestation — PCI-DSS Requirement 10.7
SQL injection prevention report — blocked and rewritten attempts with rule details

Your QSA gets pre-digested evidence, not a raw log dump.

Architecture for regulated environments

For FinTech companies under PCI-DSS, routing database traffic through a third-party cloud is often a compliance disqualifier. Safe Boundary's Enterprise tier deploys the proxy inside your VPC — your database queries never leave your environment. The cloud control plane handles policies, AI model updates, and billing; it never sees query content or results. Architecturally enforced.

Compatible with: AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and self-hosted PostgreSQL.

Pricing for FinTech

	Enterprise	Enterprise+
Price	$899/db/mo ($8,490/db/yr)	Custom ($100K+ ACV)
Deployment	Your VPC	Your VPC or fully self-hosted
Databases	Unlimited	Unlimited
PCI-DSS reporting	✓	✓
SSO identity	✓	✓
Time-limited grants	✓	✓
Source code escrow	—	✓
NDA audit rights	—	✓
Dedicated support	✓	✓ + dedicated engineer

POC available: 30-day evaluation, $5K fee credited against year-one contract.

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Spectral Core — ISO 27001 certified · SOC 2 Type II in progress · Microsoft Partner · Google Partner · Established 2004