webinar: drive financial services innovation through it automation
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Presentation from webinar held July 17, 2014 titled 'Drive Financial Services Innovation Through IT Automation'. Topics covered included using CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0 to: - Simplify audits with continual monitoring of system compliance and automatic remediation - Dramatically improve the speed to update your environments - Sharpen your visibility into critical configuration items and system inventory - Ensure your system is secure and in compliance with defined policyTRANSCRIPT
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Drive Financial Services Innovation Through IT
AutomationAndrew YeungDirector, Product ManagementJuly 17, 2014
Agenda
• The State of IT in Financial Services Today• Minimize Risk, Ensure Compliance, and Drive
Operational Efficiency with CFEngine Enterprise
• Demo• Q&A
The State of IT Today
Ensuring that critical systems and data is secure
Maintain IT infrastructure and applications
Expedient remediation of issues as they arrive
Providing technology support to employees
IT’s role today is primarily tactical and operational…
How can you help transform IT to a strategic business partner?
Additional Burdens on Financial Services FirmsIncreasing regulatory requirements
Risk and compliance management
Security is a top concern
Cost control and operational efficiency
Tremendous IT complexity
Regulatory Compliance Pressures
Regulatory compliance remains
the top driver of security spending for
financial services organizations
Average number of detected incidents in Financial Services
169% in 2013
Information and Infrastructure Security
Average financial losses due to security incidents
48% In N. America
Only 18% Of respondents say they have policies governing cloud services
79% of respondents say their security activities are effective, a decline of
5%over last year
Source: The Global State of Information Security Survey 2014, PWC.
Large Scale, Heterogeneous, Complex Environments
Maintaining standardization and consistency is complex and time consuming
Keeping configurations accurate and up-to-date is a top priority
Virtualization, cloud, containerization sprawl needs to be curbed and managed
Data centers are increasingly distributed to support local offices, user/mobile traffic
High availability, redundancy, backup/recovery are imperatives
Speed and Operational Efficiency
IT must evolve in an environment of rapid change
Technology and automation will provide the catalyst to help financial services firms achieve operational excellence
Automation as a Strategic Initiative
Increase productivity and remove human bottlenecks
Reduce costs of managing your environment
Maintain compliance and enforce security
Introducing CFEngine Enterprise
Intelligent Infrastructure Automation
Agile, secure and scalablePolicy-driven and convergent
Simple, self-service consumption
Policy-based Application Deployment
Repeatable and error-freeManage local or cloud-based
infrastructureDeliver on platform
standardization
Continuous Operations and Self-healing
Complete visibility and alerting
Compliance with self-healingOOTB inventory and
reporting
IT Automation at WebScale
Scale Speed Security Stability
CFEngine’s Heritage10,000+ Customers across 100+ countries
10 million+ servers managed200,000 nodes managed at a single customer
Market-leading scalability, securability, & reliability
JPMorgan Chase 2013 Hall of Innovation Winner
CFEngine’s innovative technology has enabled JPMC to achieve global consistency of their dynamic configuration environment, resulting in cost savings, risk mitigation, efficiency and product differentiation and faster time to market.
As the most strategic and scalable automation platform, CFEngine has made standardization easier to achieve, allowing systems to manage themselves and converge to their desired state
Mike Ashworth,Chief Information Officer for J.P.Morgan Chase
Distributed, Lightweight Architecture
1. Define Desired State
2. Ensure Desired State
HUB
3. Verify Actual State
CFEngine Hub
Design Center
MissionPortal
CFE Agents
Policy Language
Addressing the Needs of Financial Services Organizations
Establish baseline
implementation of OS,
configuration, and software
Standard Operating
Environment
Satisfy stringent security
standards and automate
vulnerability management
Security Standards
Identify, report, and alert on
possible configuration drift
Reporting / Audit
Automated remediation to approved and desired state
Problem Remediation
Manage thousands of servers, and
address issues in a matter of
minutes
Scalability and Speed
Ensure system consistency and resiliency to support mission critical environments across your enterprise.
Establish Standard Operating Environment
• Ensure baseline configuration by declaring desired state
• Managed entities include users, files, processes, s/w packages, services, etc…
• Standardize across thousands of systems• Manage and report on configuration drift
A measurable path to IT operational efficiency
Enforce IT Security Standards
• Ensure systems, users, firewalls are configured according to security regulations
• Accelerate and automate patch distribution to plug vulnerabilities
• File integrity monitoring• Alert on policy breaches to ensure
compliance
Be proactively alerted on policy drift to continuously assess and monitor conformance
Reporting and Audit
• Simple-to-use, configurable dashboard• Flexibly report on inventory assets and forensics• Alert on events that require attention• Tracking and recording of system events
Instant visibility, comprehensive coverage, exact data
Issue / Change Remediation
• Continuous verification and operations at 5 min. intervals
• Automated self-healing• Integrate with system
management tools to support end-to-end use cases
Scalability and Speed
• Distributed, lean agents• Autonomous and fault-
tolerant• Support thousands of
managed systems per hub
• 5 minute updates• Execute policies in
seconds
Architected for WebScale
Managed OSes
Enterprise APIs
CFEngine Hub
Mission Portal
Managed OSes Managed OSes
Dev Test Prod
Redis key-value
PostgreSQL
Hub
Customer Success Story
• Global provider of banking and payment technologies
• Serves more than 14,000 institutions in 100+ countries
• IT organization owns everything from bare metal to the top of the stack and supports all flavors of Unix/Linux
Customer Profile
Challenges• Adherence to security
/corporate policies is imperative
• Extremely dynamic environment
• Operational efficiency measured against its competitors
• Expected 99.999% uptime
Results• Execute millions of
compliance checks per day
• Automated security config management
• Time to update policies from days to mins
• Vast reduction in labor costs
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DEMO
Take It For A Spin!
Download CFEngine Enterprise free for up to 25 nodes!http://cfengine.com/product/free-download/
Check out our video tutorials @ http://cfengine.com/learn
Or try our prepackaged CFEngine environment using Vagrant
Download and unzip the Vagrant project
$ cd <location of vagrant_env>
$ vagrant up
…and you are all set!!
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Summary
Leverage automation as a strategic initiative and transform IT
Adherence to IT security standards is a top priority for financial services organizations
Speed, scalability, and agility cannot be ignored
CFEngine Enterprise delivers IT Automation at WebScale
Infrastructure Automation, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Operations using
a model based approach that is secure, scalable, and agile and provides
enterprise-wide visibility, while ensuring service levels and compliance.
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