Tag: Financial Services

Use Case: Building PCI Compliant Cloud Infrastructure 

Posted July 17, 2022

How a multinational payments company achieves PCI Compliance on AWS. By engaging with AWS and Vertical Relevance, the Customer was provided with a mechanism to create new AWS environments quickly and ultimately decreased their onboarding time for partners which materially improves their business. Additionally, the solution enabled the Customer to pass internal and external audits. 

Solution Spotlight – Data Pipeline Foundations

Posted July 14, 2022

The Data Pipeline Foundations provide guidance on the fundamental components of a data pipeline such as ingestion and data transformations. For data ingestion, we heavily leaned on the concept of data consolidation to structure our ingestion paths. For transforming your data, be sure to utilize our step-by-step approach to optimize architecting your data for end-user consumption. By following the strategies provided, your organization can create a pipeline to meet your data goals.  

Solution Spotlight – Performance Testing Foundations

Posted June 15, 2022

The Vertical Relevance Automated Performance Testing Framework lowers the barrier to entry in performance tests by providing a starting point upon which a mature solution can be built to meet the needs of your organization.  By following this guidance, you can gain confidence that your production systems are going to meet the current and future demands of your organization and customers

Solution Spotlight – Resiliency Foundations

Posted May 6, 2022

Regular and robust resiliency testing provides assurances your cloud application can weather whatever outages may occur. The Vertical Relevance Resiliency Automation Framework can help guarantee your workload can prevail through disruptions and failures and prevent the damaging consequences of an outage. Reach out to us to learn more about how we can help you meet your resiliency requirements. 

Use Case: Service Control Policies (SCPs) Evaluation Engine 

Posted April 26, 2022

By engaging AWS and Vertical Relevance, the customer was able to automate their deployment of SCPs across their AWS Organization. After implementing a multi-stage pipeline that performed automated checks to ensure that SCPs were compliant with security policies and did not contradict service usage across their accounts, the customer could quickly and reliably make changes to SCPs. With these changes in place, the Security Team updated organization-wide security controls quicker and with more confidence, which drastically improved the overall security posture of the customer.

Control Broker Eval Engine 

Posted March 16, 2022

This is the latest example of how Vertical Relevance is a leader in the Policy as Code space. This post outlined how to operationalize PaC with a serverless Evaluation Engine as part of the broader Control Broker solution. Get in touch with us to learn more about the benefits of operationalizing the automated enforcement of security policies

Solution Spotlight – Identity Foundations

Posted March 10, 2022

While there are many different components involved with securing the cloud, a carefully architected IAM strategy is paramount. A solid IAM strategy allows engineers to develop quickly, provides key stakeholders with a comprehensive picture of the actions that can be performed by different IAM principals, and results in a more secure cloud environment overall. Security without reasonable user experience can lead to workarounds and dysfunction, and by implementing this solution, both key stakeholders and engineers can all be satisfied with the result.

Solution Spotlight – Network Foundations

Posted February 9, 2022

This AWS Network Foundation solution provides an opinionated, foundational set of network architectures, design considerations, automated solutions, and best practices that help our clients “quick start” their AWS journey with a strong foothold while ensuring the scalability and growth they are likely to require as their AWS footprint grows. Vertical Relevance highly recommends that the following foundational best practices be implemented to create a sustainable AWS Network that will support an enterprise-level organization.

Use Case: Building a Retail Data Lake

Posted February 7, 2022

How one of the world's largest investment companies is migrating data to AWS using a Lake House. By engaging with AWS and Vertical Relevance, the Customer was able to decide which incremental “Waved” approach is best aligned with their needs. The Customer now has a plan for completion of successful migration to the next best Lake House AWS architecture state as well as managing risks while delivering business value at each increment.  
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