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Solution Spotlight – Account Foundations

Posted December 15, 2021

The Account Foundation solution provides organizations with a simple, automated approach to managing their AWS cloud environments as the quantity and complexity of AWS accounts increase. Currently, many organizations begin their cloud journey by manually provisioning accounts, configuring guardrails, and leaving baseline account setup to the account owners. However, as an organization’s cloud presence scales upwards, this manual process slows down the account provisioning process and introduces many security vulnerabilities. 

Simplify Compliance with the VR Security Framework and AWS Audit Manager

Posted December 8, 2021

It is difficult to navigate the constantly evolving world of compliance and regulations. Manual risk management often leads to gaps in security, and requires high effort and collaboration to achieve compliance. Reaching compliance is a huge undertaking, often involving guesswork and extensive research just to have information to get started. By leveraging AWS Audit Manager and the VR Cloud Controls Framework, we can create a custom audit framework that meets our individual business requirements, automate the audit process, and attain routine compliance.

Use Case: Full-Scale Compliance with Policy as Code

Posted November 3, 2021

How a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm is leveraging policy-as-code techniques to enable application teams to adapt to the cloud faster without sacrificing security or compliance.

Solution Spotlight – Control Foundations

Posted October 20, 2021

Within the cloud, there are many layers at which security and compliance vulnerabilities present themselves. From the AWS Account’s permission models through application code, and at every layer in between. Enterprises that have a diverse AWS landscape, often look towards developing AWS Security controls to prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced to their environments. Our Control Foundations Solution enables security teams to define the organization’s controls through a PolicyasCode framework that can be used to continuously add, adjust controls, and deploy the changes to controls to meet compliance needs across the organization. The continuous adjustments and seamless deployments of these controls allows application and infrastructure teams across the organization to spend less time worrying about security controls and more time focusing on delivering high-quality work.

Use Case: Self-Service Infrastructure Product Provisioning at Scale

Posted October 6, 2021

How a leading worldwide provider of payment technology improves software delivery by providing self-service infrastructure products that are readily available to be consumed by application teams. Through engaging with Vertical Relevance, the customer was able to increase their developers’ efficiency by increasing the speed in which they are able to deploy AWS infrastructure, all while doing so in a way that is scalable, secure, and remaining with their compliance requirements. Development Teams are able to do this by creating AWS Resources that are tested and approved to Customer’ standards on-demand utilizing Service Catalog. With this new solution being implemented, the customer is able to progress through their mainframe modernization.

Use Case: Incident Response Automation 

Posted September 17, 2021

How a leading clearing hour Implementing incident response in an organization’s delegated security account and leveraging automation to implement AWS security services in a master-member setup

Solution Spotlight – Infrastructure Foundations

Posted September 8, 2021

The Infrastructure Foundations solution enables development and operations teams to request different infrastructure products that come with all of the necessary components, integrations, and configurations. Each infrastructure product is tested and validated to comply with security and governance and is accessible through self-service. 

Use Case: Self-Service CICD Pipelines

Posted August 26, 2021

How a leading financial services analytics institution implemented self-service pipelines to support dozens of diverse applications. By engaging with Vertical Relevance, the customer moved closer to providing standardized self-service CI/CD pipelines across their enterprise without ignoring the differing needs of their many application teams. Furthermore, the customer’s CI/CD infrastructure can now move to the AWS cloud alongside the infrastructure it supports, reducing heterogeneity in tools and required skillsets, which will pay off in the form of increased scalability of the customer’s CI/CD practices and DevOps teams. 
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