Financial Services Cloud Council and Forum

𝐀𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲𝐬, 𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭, 𝐥𝐚𝐰, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.

In this piece, I explore the growing tension between data protection and operational resilience regulation and the vexing trade-offs this creates for regulated firms navigating public cloud adoption.

This isn't a theoretical debate. It's a live issue shaping boardroom decisions across Europe and the UK. And without clearer, harmonised regulatory guidance, the risk is that firms feel forced to choose between compliance and competitiveness.

📌 What does a sustainable path forward look like?
📌 How do we reconcile confidentiality with availability in a cloud-first world?

I invite you to read the LinkedIn article and share your perspective. Because in a sector where hesitation is risk, regulatory clarity is not a luxury-it's a necessity.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/between-compliance-competitiveness-cloud-conundrum-anne-2iyte/?trackingId=167xx1Y0SOeORcAZMy4oLQ%3D%3D

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Anne Leslie
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Data as an Active Participant in its own defence

The old adage is that if you continue to do something the way you've always done it, you'll continue to always get the same results.  

That's no longer good enough.

In order to address this, we need to think differently.

Instead of considering each individual aspect of data protection, (whether it be security, resilience, privacy compliance or the number 1 EC technology priority, sovereignty) as a problem in its own right, we need to turn the problem on its head and consider DATA as an active participant in its own protection, irrespective of where it travels or rests.

In the attached, I outline the concept of "Data Out Protection" and how it works in practice to enable financial institutions to change the narrative and achieve unified visibility across their entire hybrid Multi-Cloud IT estate of data:

• Security
• Resilience
• Privacy Compliance
• Sovereignty
• Location

As protected data is meaningless to 3rd party providers, risk of surveillance under FISA or US Cloud Act is negated.  3rd party data breach is mitigated.

Data can be recovered anytime, on-demand, after Cloud disruptions or ransomware on one or more data stores.

As data protection is managed via a unified portal, all data risks can be balanced and managed in accordance with an institution's governance policies, by data category.  

The institution sets sovereignty. concentration risk and resilience of data across providers, geographies and storage types, and manages this according to its own risk appetite.

I invite you to consider the attached.  For those who wish to learn more, please see Data Out Protection Whitepaper

If you'd like to discuss further, please reach out.

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