Banks & financial institutions
Regulatory scrutiny is continuous rather than annual, and the burden of proof sits with you. A sound infrastructure decision is not enough on its own; it also has to be defensible in writing.
For banks, universal credit organisations and other financial institutions, STP builds and operates infrastructure that has to satisfy a regulator as well as a business: private cloud with demonstrable data residency, segmented networks, tested disaster recovery and the audit evidence to prove all three.
What this sector worries about
- Data residency and control over where customer data is processed
- Segmentation between card, core banking and corporate environments
- Evidence that disaster recovery has been tested, not just documented
- Access review and change records that survive an audit sample
- High availability with a defined and measured RTO per system
- Vendor concentration risk and the ability to exit a platform

