Flagship course

Fintech Pipeline Audit Lab

A six-module working lab for teams that need to examine secure data pipelines in fintech—collect evidence, sample controls, and write findings that survive challenge.

Informational price: ₩890,000 · Duration: 5 weeks · Format: live + lab packets

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Learning outcomes

  • Map sensitive flows

    Produce lineage diagrams covering ingest, transform, store, and vendor egress paths.

  • Sample with intent

    Design control samples that match pipeline volume and risk—not arbitrary percentages.

  • Write usable findings

    Draft issues with impact, evidence, owners, and honest scope limits.

  • Brief stakeholders

    Present a short assurance memo suitable for risk committees.

Modules

  1. 01
    Scope & system context

    Define in-scope systems, data classes, and regulatory triggers for the lab case.

  2. 02
    Flow mapping workshop

    Trace PII and payment events across brokers, warehouses, and APIs.

  3. 03
    Access & ACL evidence

    Inventory principals, compare to registers, and sample produce/consume logs.

  4. 04
    Retention & encryption checks

    Validate lifecycle rules, encryption claims, and orphaned temporary stores.

  5. 05
    Vendor handoffs

    Review contracts against actual data paths and logging behavior.

  6. 06
    Finding clinic & memo

    Peer-review drafts and assemble a final assurance brief.

Instructor

Portrait of instructor Yoon Seo-jin

Yoon Seo-jin

Former second-line auditor for a Korea-licensed payments firm and later a data platform lead. Seo-jin designs Syncdatanet labs around artifacts she once demanded from engineering—short, evidence-heavy, and free of decorative risk language.

Informational pricing

Listed at ₩890,000 per learner for open cohorts. Private team pricing and Standing Watch retainers are scoped on Pricing. This site does not collect payment.

FAQ

Do I need Kafka experience?

Helpful but not required. We provide a pre-read on broker concepts and focus labs on audit technique rather than cluster administration.

Is this a certification exam?

No. You receive a Syncdatanet certificate of completion after graded labs. It is not a regulatory license.

What is a real limitation of this course?

We do not deep-dive multi-cloud IAM topology for every vendor. Teams with complex landing-zone designs should bring internal reference diagrams; the lab time is reserved for pipeline evidence and findings.

Can we use our own pipeline?

Yes for private cohorts. Open cohorts use a shared fictional fintech case to protect confidentiality.

Course reviews

“Module 5’s vendor handoff checklist caught a logging partner we had never listed in our DPIA.”

— Ara Kim, Privacy Engineer

The pacing in week three was dense. I needed the weekend to finish the ACL sample—but the annotated solution made the miss obvious.