Financial Services

Financial services platforms usually emphasize change control, segregation of duties, auditability, resilience, vendor risk, and data protection. Platform practices should make those controls routine.

Common concerns

• Production change approval and evidence.
• Segregation of duties for privileged actions.
• Strong identity and access review.
• Transaction integrity and reconciliation.
• Disaster recovery and operational resilience.
• Vendor and third-party risk management.
• Data retention, legal hold, and audit trails.

Platform implications

Define standards for:

• Immutable artifacts and promotion records.
• Deployment approvals and emergency change flow.
• Privileged access management.
• Infrastructure change plans and review.
• Central logging and tamper-resistant audit trails.
• Backup, restore, and DR test evidence.
• Cost and risk reporting by business service.

Change evidence

A production change should be traceable from request to deployment:

Watchouts

• Manual approvals without technical enforcement create weak controls.
• Emergency access must be logged and reviewed.
• Shared admin accounts break accountability.
• Resilience requirements may apply to business services, not only individual applications.