Carbon60

The Managed Cloud Difference

Financial Services

Cloud evolution is table stakes for financial services.

Cloud technology continues to transform the financial services industry across the banking, payments, insurance and wealth management sectors. This pace of growth amplifies the need for a flexible platform for your business while staying vigilant about evolving security threats that could impact your customers and your reputation.

Personalized cloud accelerates
your go-to-market speed.

Legacy financial services companies are adapting while fintechs and startups disrupt the industry to deliver new options for clients. This digital transformation has led to an accelerated rate of transactions and rapid increase in data sets. As a result, many banks and insurance companies are turning to the cloud to help them keep pace with this rapidly evolving industry.

But data security, privacy and compliance remain key concerns. With ransomware and cyberattacks a constant threat, financial services companies need to ensure their clients’ data is safe — or risk financial loss, costly fines and reputational damage. At the same time, they need to drive innovation, compete with new players and find new market opportunities so they’re not left behind.

We help financial services companies increase their flexibility and accelerate their go-to-market speed, while meeting regulatory and compliance obligations. Our personalized cloud environments for banks and insurance companies are designed to achieve SOC2, PCI-DSS and OSFI B10 regulatory and organizational obligations on public and private cloud platforms, with clear and documented infosec policies for staff and contractors vetted as part of our SOC2 compliance program.

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The Carbon60 difference for financial services companies

With 100+ certifications across all major clouds, we’re committed to delivering reliable and flexible cloud solutions to banks and insurance companies with the highest level of accountability and service quality, all with our white-glove dedicated support available 24x7x365.

We’ve got you covered:

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Secure Network and Systems

  • Edge firewall services to scan network traffic and block unauthorized access
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect against web exploits
  • Intrusion detection
  • Endpoint protection and response (powered by CrowdStrike)
  • Password management policies
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Safety of Cardholder Data

  • Authorization and authentication access to all servers controlled via LDAP/AD service
  • Multifactor authentication and ephemeral token access
  • Encryption of data at rest and in transit to protect data
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Vulnerability Protection

  • Endpoint protection and response with next-gen anti-virus technology
  • Patch management for operating systems and applications
  • On-going vulnerability scans and remediation
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Access Control

  • Least privilege access to servers
  • Authorized user access list (shared responsibility)
  • Physical security for data centre access
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Monitoring and Testing Practices

  • Proactive monitoring and event log tracking
  • Ticketing systems supported by our 24x7x365 service desk and CI/CD pipeline support by our DevOps team
  • Test/dev systems to evaluate and test vulnerabilities and patches

Design and evolve your financial services network ecosystem.

Strategy and consulting for financial services companies:

Our solution architects can help banks and insurance companies design, plan and build a secure, compliant cloud solution based on your unique requirements — and at a pace suitable for your team. We’ll do a full assessment of your IT environment and help you choose the right cloud solution, which could include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or our private cloud service powered by VMware. We can then help you migrate to a compliant cloud environment that meets your compliance requirements. And if you’re already on public cloud, we can help you optimize your environment for cost, compliance, security, privacy and performance.

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Ongoing peace of mind.

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Managed services for financial services companies:

You can choose to manage the environment yourself, or we can manage it for you. We take on responsibility for the infrastructure stack to deliver end-to-end managed cloud for mission-critical workloads that demand the highest levels of reliability, performance and security. We’ll manage your IT infrastructure 24×7, and our secure managed cloud solutions for banks and insurance companies allow you to accelerate go-to-market speed and increase flexibility while meeting regulatory and compliance obligations.

“In our case, the digital platform is the business itself. If the network goes down, everything falls apart. We did an analysis and the cost to build out our own team for in-house support was prohibitively higher than to leverage Carbon60 — and they would not have had the standardized methodologies and cohesiveness that Carbon60 brings to the table. They also have deep expertise in our preferred public cloud platform, which simply makes everything easier especially as we look for ways to best leverage microservices and serverless architecture as a whole. We’ve been very happy with Carbon60 and have never looked back.”

CTO, national SaaS payment delivery network

Key Benefits for Financial Services:

Accelerate speed to market

Reduce your development cycles and launch new products to meet aggressive timelines and scale up or down to meet demand.

Strengthen your security posture

Our multi-layered safeguards protect your mission-critical applications and data in the cloud.

Ensure business continuity

Protect against unplanned downtime and test recovery processes with our backup and disaster recovery services.

Achieve compliance

Meet PCI-DSS, SOC 2 and OSFI B10 regulatory and organizational requirements on public or private cloud platforms.

DevOps agility

We use automation to improve deployment consistency with audit trails throughout build, test and production lifecycle.

Cost optimization

We help to reorganize your IT cost structure, moving from Capex to Opex, and providing continuous cost optimization.

The Carbon60 Difference

At Carbon60, we’ve led by doing. With deep roots in managed cloud services, and award-winning, standard-setting strategic consulting, we offer end-to-end multi-cloud design, migration and management to help more Canadian businesses operate successfully in the cloud. That’s our mission, and we’re proud to be trusted by our customers to do it every day.

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