ACME Named Best Cybersecurity Advisor at the MEA Finance Awards 2025

The MEA Finance Awards are among the most authoritative technology honours for the financial services sector, judged by an independent panel drawn from banking technology, risk and regulatory backgrounds. The Best Cybersecurity Advisor award recognises the technology partner that has most effectively helped financial institutions strengthen their security posture across architecture, implementation, compliance and ongoing managed security operations.

ACME’s recognition reflects the depth of its cybersecurity work with GCC banks, insurance companies and financial infrastructure operators. The judging panel highlighted ACME’s Zero Trust architecture deployments replacing legacy VPN with identity-verified, application-specific access its Privileged Access Management implementations using CyberArk and Microsoft PIM, and its incident response and managed SOC engagements for clients managing Bahrain Central Bank and UAE CBUAE regulatory requirements.

Financial services clients face a dual challenge: the threat landscape is evolving faster than internal teams can track, while regulatory expectations on cybersecurity governance are rising. ACME’s approach combines architecture advisory designing the Zero Trust and PAM frameworks that meet regulatory standards with managed operations that provide the continuous monitoring, threat detection and response that most financial institutions cannot staff internally at the required level.

“Financial services organisations need a security partner that understands both the threat environment and the regulatory framework. ACME’s work spans both from architecture design to managed operations and this award reflects the outcomes that approach has delivered for clients.”

ACME Security Practice