BYOK is Essential for Data Security and Privacy as Business-Critical Applications Move to the Cloud

BYOK is Essential for Data Security and Privacy as Business-Critical Applications Move to the Cloud

The 2020 Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report focuses on the key risks and challenges organizations face as they implement and maintain cloud solutions. This article highlights some of the report's findings around the growing trust in the security of cloud offerings and asserts why maintaining control of your own critical keys should be considered best-practice when considering migrating to the cloud.

Customer Behaviour Drives Banking Security And Cryptography Architecture

Customer Behaviour Drives Banking Security And Cryptography Architecture

Changing customer behaviour and expectations are driving the transformation of the new banking security architecture. While customers want more digital banking and financial services, they still see a bank's physical presence as a symbol of the institution's credibility and reputation.

Hybrid Cloud & Key Management for Financial Service Platforms: IBM's New CCA 7.0 and the Mainframe z15

Hybrid Cloud & Key Management for Financial Service Platforms: IBM's New CCA 7.0 and the Mainframe z15

In response to changing and more dynamic market demands, banks and financial institutions are turning into financial service platforms. They increase the extent of their digital transformations across the hybrid cloud, guided by three motivating factors:

What Do Companies Perceive as the Most Important Encryption Features?

What Do Companies Perceive as the Most Important Encryption Features?

The need for certain encryption technology features can vary from company to company, depending on their individual needs for securing their data.

Key Management: New Digital and Security Models for Banks

Key Management: New Digital and Security Models for Banks

In rethinking their strategies, traditional banks have eight digital business model options to consider in order to remain competitive against untraditional newcomers to the industry.

Payment & Banking: An Introduction to z/OS and the IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture

Payment & Banking: An Introduction to z/OS and the IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture

IBM’s mainframe computers have been a rock-steady part of banks’ security infrastructure for many years. Originating from the local data-center concept, the current release is able to stretch banks’ security architecture across the hybrid cloud, harnessing advantages of on-premise and cloud-native software deployments - all without compromising data security and privacy.

Banks, Ecosystems & Service Innovation - Aligning the Crypto Architecture around MS Azure and Dynamics

Banks, Ecosystems & Service Innovation - Aligning the Crypto Architecture around MS Azure and Dynamics

This article explores the concept of financial service platforms and aligns resulting business (process) goals with the necessary crypto architecture. We have a particular look at the integration of MS Dynamics and MS Azure, as it is a rapidly growing service extension platform for many banks.

End-to-end Banking-grade Key Management - From On-premise to Multi-cloud BYOK

End-to-end Banking-grade Key Management - From On-premise to Multi-cloud BYOK

In this article, we will look at integration points and explain why it is important that a key management system is able to integrate with a number of applications across various environments (in-house data centers and public clouds).

IBM's z15 Mainframe and Secure Key Management for Financial Service Platforms

IBM's z15 Mainframe and Secure Key Management for Financial Service Platforms

Banks continue to feel the profound transformational effects that digital technologies have on their business. This can be seen in the creation and acceleration of new business activities, models, competencies, and processes.