Enabling the Cloud for Banks

A lot changed in the IT and regulatory world when it comes to the cloud. A few years ago, banks would nto even think about the cloud (maybe for dev and test but for sure not for production workloads. It was simply unthinkable that a bank would move their data in a hyper-scale cloud.

And to be fair, a few years ago, every cloud provider would have tried to avoid building and operating local datacenters or offering the right to audit to regulators.

As I said, a lot has changed.

Just recently the Swiss Bankers Association published a guideline
Cloud Guidelines: A guide to secure cloud banking. Giving advice how cloud and banking can find their way together.

Roger Halbheer

Roger Halbheer is an Executive Security Advisor at Microsoft in EMEA acting as a trusted advisor to CxO. Before that he was a Managing Director at Accenture's Financial Services. Before joining Accenture, he was the Chief Security Officer of Swisscom (Switzerland's largest telecom provider) and the global Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft.

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