Backbase CISO: Defending Banking Apps At Runtime
Security Boulevard, December 12,2025
There's a major problem in application security: Organizations secure code before release, but attackers strike in production. This gap is exactly where runtime application security comes in.
In his DevOpsCon Munich keynote, Backbase CISO Brian Vlootman explained how this reality shapes defense for Backbase, a modern banking platform that runs on top of customers' aging core systems. Banks rely on Backbase to deliver digital banking experiences even when their legacy cores are hard to modernize or staff. That dependency raises the stakes in production, and Vlootman showed why prevention alone cannot protect live banking applications.