Last updated: July 2026
Looking for a BNM RMiT Compliance Consulting Company in Malaysia? Pass BNM Scrutiny Without a Year-Long Project.
We are a BNM RMiT compliance consulting company for Malaysia banks, insurers, and other BNM-licensed financial institutions. A gap assessment lands in about 2 weeks, remediation runs in phases your team can actually absorb, and we run the required penetration testing and vulnerability scanning ourselves - no separate vendor to coordinate.
Every engagement is led personally by a former Microsoft Security Consulting team member. Fixed-price proposal within 48 hours. You review the gap assessment report before you pay.
What Does a BNM RMiT Compliance Consulting Company Do?
A BNM RMiT compliance consulting company prepares your financial institution to demonstrate alignment with Bank Negara Malaysia's Risk Management in Technology policy. That means mapping the policy to your actual systems, finding every control gap across governance, cybersecurity risk management, technology operations, and technology resilience, then implementing the missing controls with your team.
RMiT is a mandatory regulatory requirement, demonstrated through audit and BNM supervision - there is no shortcut around it for a BNM-regulated institution. The goal is full alignment: controls and evidence strong enough to pass BNM scrutiny and audit, satisfy your board, and clear enterprise or counterparty due diligence, without turning the effort into a year-long project. That is exactly what this engagement is built to produce.
What Is BNM RMiT, and Who Must Comply
RMiT is the Risk Management in Technology policy issued by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the country's central bank. It sets out requirements across technology risk governance, cybersecurity risk management, technology operations, and technology resilience, and requires cybersecurity monitoring, log management, vulnerability scanning, and periodic penetration testing.
The latest version of RMiT took effect on 28 November 2025, raising the bar on authentication (phishing-resistant MFA) and on cybersecurity monitoring (24/7). It applies to every financial institution BNM regulates.
The Core BNM RMiT Requirement Areas
We assess and remediate every area BNM looks at during an audit, not just the cybersecurity controls that get the most attention.
Technology Risk Governance and Oversight
RMiT expects the board and senior management to own technology risk, set risk appetite, and maintain active oversight of technology risk management across the institution. We help build the governance structure BNM expects to see documented and evidenced.
Cybersecurity Risk Management
Access management, network security, encryption, and authentication - including the phishing-resistant MFA baseline introduced in the 2025 update. This is the control area RMiT treats as the backbone of technology risk management.
Technology Operations
Day-to-day management of the technology environment, including change management, capacity management, and the operational discipline RMiT expects around production systems.
Technology Resilience
Recovery objectives, resilience testing, and the ability to keep critical systems available under disruption. BNM looks for evidence the resilience plan has actually been tested, not just documented.
Cybersecurity Monitoring and Log Management
RMiT requires ongoing cybersecurity monitoring and log management, and the 2025 update raised the bar to expect 24/7 security monitoring capability across in-scope systems.
Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing
RMiT requires regular vulnerability scanning and periodic penetration testing as evidence that technology risk controls actually work, not just exist on paper.
Our BNM RMiT Compliance Consulting Process
Five stages from first call to BNM audit readiness. The difference from most RMiT consultants is stage three: we implement the controls with you, in phases, instead of handing back a checklist.
Scoping and regulatory mapping
We map the full RMiT policy document to your actual systems and business lines, so the engagement covers exactly what applies to a bank, insurer, or other BNM-licensed institution like yours.
Gap assessment (about 2 weeks)
We test your current environment against every RMiT domain - governance, cybersecurity risk management, technology operations, technology resilience, monitoring, and testing - and hand you a prioritized gap report.
Phased remediation
We implement the missing controls with your team, phase by phase, rather than handing you a document and disappearing: access management, authentication, logging and monitoring, resilience testing, and the rest of the gap report.
Cybersecurity monitoring, log management, and vulnerability scanning
RMiT explicitly expects ongoing monitoring, log management, and regular vulnerability scanning. We help stand up and validate this capability as part of the engagement.
Penetration testing and board reporting
We run the periodic penetration testing RMiT requires ourselves, then prepare the board assurance pack and support you through the real BNM audit or supervisory review.
BNM RMiT Readiness Timeline
A realistic timeline for a Malaysia financial institution starting from a first engagement. Actual remediation length depends on your starting maturity and how many gaps the assessment finds.
| Phase | Timing | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Scoping and regulatory mapping | Week 1 | Defined scope across every RMiT domain that applies to your institution |
| Gap assessment | Weeks 1-2 | Prioritized gap report against the RMiT policy document |
| Phased remediation | Weeks 2-10 (scope-dependent) | Controls implemented with your team, phase by phase |
| Cybersecurity monitoring and log management | Scheduled within remediation | 24/7 monitoring and log management capability stood up |
| Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing | Scheduled within remediation | Required scanning and periodic penetration testing completed by our team |
| Mock audit and board reporting | Final weeks | Board assurance pack delivered, BNM audit readiness confirmed |
How Much Does BNM RMiT Compliance Cost?
We publish our starting price rather than making you sit through a sales call to find out. Fixed-price proposals within 48 hours of your strategy call. No hourly billing, no surprises.
RMiT Gap Assessment
A full assessment against the RMiT policy document, delivered in about 2 weeks.
- Gap analysis against the RMiT policy document
- Control mapping across every RMiT domain
- Prioritized remediation roadmap
- Board-ready summary
Zero-risk: you review the report before you pay.
Full Readiness + Phased Remediation
End to end: from gap assessment to BNM audit readiness.
- Everything in the Gap Assessment
- Hands-on, phased control implementation
- Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing
- Mock audit and board reporting pack
- Support through the real BNM audit
Zero-risk: you review the report before you pay.
Why Choose Atlant Over Other RMiT Consultants
Most RMiT consultants sell you a document and a monthly retainer. Here is how we are different.
| Atlant Security | Typical RMiT Consultant | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | A former Microsoft security consultant, personally | Junior or offshore staff you never meet |
| Time to gap assessment | About 2 weeks | Months of scoping calls before you see a finding |
| Pricing | Fixed-price proposal within 48 hours - you review the report before you pay | Open-ended hourly billing |
| Control implementation | Hands-on - we implement with your team | A checklist and advice, then you are on your own |
| Penetration testing and scanning | We run it ourselves, included in scope | Outsourced to a third party you must coordinate separately |
| Vendor neutrality | 100% independent - zero software commissions | Often recommends the GRC or security tool they resell |
Every BNM RMiT Engagement Is Led by Alexander Sverdlov
Former Microsoft Security Consulting team member. CISSP certified. Alexander has personally led 234 security assessments across 14 countries since 2013. At Atlant Security, the senior consultant who scopes your RMiT engagement is the same person who runs the penetration testing and implements the controls with your team - never handed to junior staff.
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BNM RMiT and MAS TRM are separate frameworks from separate regulators, but they cover similar ground: technology risk governance, cybersecurity controls, resilience, monitoring, and periodic penetration testing. If your institution is regulated in both markets, we align your control implementation once and map it to both frameworks with the same team.
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Book a free 30-minute strategy call with Alexander. We will discuss your institution, timeline, and exactly what it takes to pass BNM audit, satisfy your board, and clear enterprise due diligence. Fixed-price proposal within 48 hours.
Zero-risk: you review the report before you pay.
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Need a Broader IT Security Audit or Standalone Penetration Test?
Many institutions pair the RMiT engagement with a full IT security audit or a standalone penetration test to satisfy both regulatory expectations and enterprise due diligence in the same cycle.
For small projects and ad-hoc work outside our pre-agreed packages or retainers, our standard hourly rate is $460.
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