BFSI AI Security Readiness Playbook

Financial services is moving from AI experimentation toward autonomous workflows. Agents, copilots and embedded models now influence customer experiences, critical decisions and core operations. This guide contains thirteen short sections that move from the risk picture to a scored readiness assessment and a 90-day plan. 

1. Why BFSI needs a new AI security model
   Four forces and what incident data shows
2. The BFSI AI risk landscape
   Risk curve and the OWASP agentic threat map
3. Trust-boundary scenario
   How an agent action crosses the line
4. A control framework
   Mapped to NIST AI RMF, OWASP and DORA
5. Agentic endpoint protection
   The device as an AI execution environment
6. Agent Mission Control and MCP
   Identity, mission, permission and the MCP gateway
7. Runtime enforcement and containment
   From detection to Kill Switch
8. Securing real financial AI workflows
   Six workflows and a two-tier path
9. Regulatory and risk alignment
   Evidence for resilience and accountability
10. The PointGuard AI approach
    Platform view and OWASP threat coverage
11. Readiness assessment
    10-point checklist and score bands
12. Implementation roadmap
    A 90-day action plan
13. References and next steps
    Sources and how to start