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Financial services: a technology revolution

The finance IT landscape

Customer expectations in the Financial Services space continue to evolve. Preferences are shifting towards personalised, convenient, tech-enabled services. Firms that are slow to change are finding their customers leaving to their competitors.

As digitalisation increases, cybercrime poses a significant threat to the sector. Outdated systems are vulnerable to attack, prompting an increase in regulatory pressure to modernise systems.

How we can help

With Cloud Gateway, you can accelerate your digital finance journey whilst keeping your organisation secure.

Our platform allows you to consume cloud services, connect your sites and users to the network, and secure all of your endpoints from one place, including customer-facing apps on the internet.

We provide all the tools you need for enhanced operational resilience - with control, visibility and governance across your network infrastructure, regardless of where it's hosted.

Our flexible platform provides a digital foundation for your business, to meet the changing demands of your customers, regulatory requirements and your technology transformation roadmap.

The Cloud Gateway platform

Financial Services and Cloud Gateway

Next generation networking in financial services

Protecting your customers' data and delivering on their expectations.

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Security & trust

Your customers trust you to keep their data safe. and you can trust us to ensure your infrastructure is secure. Implement Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) protections - we're infinitely configurable.

Digital Transformation

Whether cloud native, multicloud or a hybrid approach, our network is flexible and scalable. Use our platform to support legacy infrastructure modernisation or plan a cloud migration. We bring together your users, sites, clouds, data centres, or a combination of these!

Compliance

Compliance and governance should be easy. Our ecosystem provides full visibility of your logs and security events for audit purposes. You can utilise SIEM/SOC Integration, enabling you to receive data direct from the platform, to your chosen SIEM solution for further analysis.

Visibility & service

Cloud Gateway allows you to monitor demand and control everything, from security policy to remote access. Respond faster to spikes in demand and perform analysis to drive data-driven decision making. The platform is delivered as a fully managed service, backed by SLA.

Our Services

Cloud Connectivity

Our platform gives you the freedom to choose the best cloud service for your needs. Whether it's Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), we securely connect you to your preferred provider.

Streamline your IT with a smooth cloud migration. Use our secure, UK-based data centre POPs, or IPSec VPN over the internet. Either way, we can get you set up immediately. Minimise disruption and allow your staff to focus on what matters most.

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Managed WAN solutions

Modernise your IT infrastructure with a seamless connection between on-prem systems and the cloud. Our WAN solutions simplify cloud integration, allowing your staff to leverage new cloud resources whilst other critical systems keep running.

We offer a range of secure and reliable options to meet your needs, including FTTC / FTTP, leased lines and internet breakout.

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Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS)

With our network security solutions, all your data, regardless of its location, is consistently protected by our Security Enforcement Core (SEC). The SEC acts as your central control centre, enforcing a single set of unified security policy across your entire network.

Firewall-as-a-Service implements a range of protections from Deep Packed Inspection (DPI) to IPS / IDS and Anti Virus.

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Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Web-facing applications and tools are great for financial services customers, but they increase the potential attack surface for malicious intent.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) incorporates a highly sophisticated set of features that protect your internal functions from external internet-borne threats. It includes API protection, bot mitigation, vulnerability scanning and much more!

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Answering your FAQ’s on financial services and the cloud

: Cloud offers a number of innovative solutions to the financial services sector, not least the improvement of customer experience. Cloud-built applications improve the interaction between customer and provider, dispelling the stereotype that the sector can be stuffy and slow to evolve. Cloud also contributes to security and regulatory requirements, in conjunction with, or to completely replace on-prem solutions.
: The cloud offers a level of flexibility and scalability that is necessary in a fast moving market. The emergence of open banking, crypto and other digital-led financial services requires traditional banks and service providers to keep pace with market demand.
: In their data and analytics strategy, the Bank of England sets out intent to design and deploy a cloud-based data platform. The platform is intended to provide access to Bank of England data and a modern analytical tool set with the ability to run "powerful analysis in a cost-effective way."