Azure for financial services
Azure gives financial services firms a secure, compliant and resilient cloud foundation. Veratas designs and runs Azure landing zones built for data residency, regulatory expectations and disaster recovery, delivered by one accountable, accredited team.
Financial services firms need cloud that satisfies the regulator
Moving to cloud is straightforward; doing it in a way that stands up to scrutiny is not.
Banks, insurers, asset managers and payments firms operate under close regulatory oversight. Cloud adoption has to address data residency, operational resilience, third party risk and the ability to evidence control of the environment at any time. An Azure estate that grew without that discipline becomes hard to secure, hard to audit and hard to defend.
Common problems are inconsistent network and identity design, unclear separation between environments, gaps in logging and monitoring, and disaster recovery that has been documented but never properly tested. When a regulator or an internal auditor asks how data is protected, where it resides and how quickly services recover, the answers are slow to assemble and incomplete.
An Azure landing zone provides a governed foundation: a defined structure for subscriptions, networking, identity with Microsoft Entra ID, security and policy, built before workloads land on it. Veratas designs and implements these landing zones for financial services, with data residency, regulatory expectations and tested resilience built in from the start.
What Azure provides for a regulated financial services estate
A controlled cloud foundation that supports security, compliance and resilience together.
Landing zones and governance
An enterprise scale landing zone defines management groups, subscriptions, naming and Azure Policy, so every workload inherits consistent guardrails and the estate stays governed as it grows.
Identity and access
Microsoft Entra ID with conditional access, privileged identity management and role based access control enforces least privilege and gives a clear, auditable picture of who can reach which systems and data.
Network and data residency
Hub and spoke networking, private endpoints and region choices keep traffic controlled and data in approved jurisdictions, addressing residency and segregation requirements set by regulators.
Security and compliance monitoring
Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel provide threat detection, posture management and centralised logging, so security events are visible and evidence is retained for audit and investigation.
Resilience and disaster recovery
Availability zones, Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery support recovery objectives for critical services, with failover that can be tested rather than assumed.
How Veratas delivers Azure for financial services
A landing zone first approach that builds control and resilience before workloads move.
Assessment and regulatory mapping
We assess your current estate and workloads, and map the data residency, resilience and control requirements that apply to your regulated activities, so the design is evidence based.
Landing zone design and build
We design and build the Azure landing zone: management group structure, networking, Entra ID, Azure Policy and security baseline, deployed as code so it is consistent and repeatable.
Workload migration and security
We migrate or deploy workloads into the governed environment, apply Defender for Cloud and Sentinel, and validate that controls operate as designed against ISO 27001 aligned practice.
Resilience testing and managed operations
We test backup and disaster recovery against agreed recovery objectives, then run the estate under an accountable managed service covering security, cost through FinOps and ongoing compliance.
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Build a compliant Azure foundation for financial services
Speak to Veratas about an Azure landing zone designed for security, data residency and tested resilience, delivered and run by one accredited, accountable team.