How Secure Is Your Cloud Architecture?
Enterprise's increasingly need agility, flexibility, and cost-
effective scalability. To achieve this, many organizations
are turning to the cloud—and to multi-cloud networking,
in particular. Enterprises typically choose a cloud service
provider (CSP) to plan and manage their workloads and
software services.
If an enterprise is new to the cloud, most of its early strat-
egy and decision making may be influenced by what the
CSP prescribes. The CSP may also dictate what products
customers can consume within an established scope.
However, the strategies that CSPs recommend may not
sufficiently meet an enterprise's regulatory and security
needs. Multi-cloud networks are more complex and diverse
than on-premises architectures and have more attack
surfaces for bad actors to exploit. Native public cloud net-
works don't provide the deep visibility into network activity
that these environments require. It's no wonder then that
multi-cloud organizations report more security incidents
than those using a single platform.
For financial services institutions (FSIs) in particular, a cloud
architecture lacking holistically embedded security through-
out the network fabric could lead to new or increased risks
across people, processes, and, of course, technology.
Ultimately, the FSI—not the CSP—is responsible for safe-
guarding customer information.
This brief, specifically for FSI adopters of cloud services,
provides an overview of a robust risk-based framework
recognized by global financial regulators.
Financial Services
Regulation & Risk Management
for Multi-Cloud Networking
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