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Getting started with IBM Cloud for Financial Services
Security categorization, functionality and assurance
Best practices and requirements
Best practices and requirements for software as a service
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2. Use only services that are IBM Cloud for Financial Services Validated
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4. Implement a system of account, identity, and access management to enable a zero-trust environment
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5. Use and maintain non-production environments for development and testing
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6. Enforce information flow policies and protect the boundaries of your application
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7. Ensure all interactive operator actions are executed through a bastion host
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10. Follow secure development processes and ensure software integrity
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13. Design your application for high availability (recommended)
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14. Use endpoint detection and remediation (EDR) tooling to detect malicious code
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18. Monitor for security and compliance against a baseline configuration
Release notes
Reference architecture overview
IBM Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) architecture
VPC with virtual servers reference architecture
VPC virtual servers and Power virtual servers reference architecture
VPC with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud reference architecture
IBM Cloud Satellite architecture
Satellite reference architecture
Satellite reference architecture use cases
Satellite reference architecture shared responsibility model
IBM Cloud for VMware Regulated Workloads architecture
Bring your own solutions for VPC reference architecture samples
Web application firewall and full-tunnel VPN
Deploying and configuring F5 BIG-IP
Setting up a web application firewall with F5 BIG-IP
Setting up full tunnel client-to-site VPN that uses F5 BIG-IP
Bastion host
General deployment and configuration information
Set up environment for deployment and configuration
Accounts, identity management, and access control
Organizing IBM Cloud accounts and resources
Access management in IBM Cloud
Networking
Networking for VPC reference architecture
Creating and connecting the management and workload VPCs
Connecting application provider to the management VPC
Running operator actions through a bastion host
Consumer connectivity to workload VPC
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Consumer in different organization than application provider
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Related controls in IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services
Networking for Satellite reference architecture
Ensuring isolation between Satellite management functions and workload functions
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Identify network areas for control plane hosts and workload hosts
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Configure network flow rules to restrict network traffic for control plane
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(Optional) Configure virtual network flow rules within Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
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Related controls in IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services
Accessing external resources from the Satellite location
Completing workload operator actions through a bastion host
Compute and containers
Storage
Logging and monitoring
Audit logging of IBM Cloud events
Audit logging of application provider events and SIEM
Data encryption
Business continuity and disaster recovery
Business continuity and disaster recovery overview
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Backup and disaster recovery for the reference architectures
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Related controls in IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services
Business continuity and disaster recovery for VPC reference architecture
Business continuity and disaster recovery for Satellite reference architecture
High availability
Development processes and software integrity
Responsibilities for operating services in your deployment
IBM Cloud for Financial Services Validation Process for Partners
IBM Cloud for Financial Services Validation Process for Partners
IBM Cloud for Financial Services Validated Partner Offerings
IBM Cloud for Financial Services Validated Partner Offerings