Fortinet Consulting EKS Security for Financial Services Industry

Financial institutions face unique challenges in securing cloud-native applications, particularly when running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). From meeting strict regulatory requirements to managing sensitive data and maintaining real-time threat visibility, the stakes are high. Fortinet Cloud Consulting Services is uniquely positioned to help financial services organizations protect their Kubernetes workloads while maintaining compliance with standards such as PCI DSS, SOX, and GDPR. Built for Regulated Environments Security and compliance are synonymous in the financial sector. Fortinet experts will help enforce policy-driven controls to prevent insecure workloads, ensuring that only approved configurations are deployed across your clusters. Role-based access controls (RBAC), least-privilege IAM roles, and secrets encryption are all standard to reduce the attack surface and control access to sensitive resources. Integrations with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and Secrets Manager ensure that secrets and encryption keys are tightly governed. Network Segmentation & Services Authentication As financial applications often require complex inter-service communication; this offering emphasizes zero-trust networking. Implement mutual TLS (mTLS) between workloads using Ingress Controllers and Certificate Management, ensuring that all communication is authenticated and encrypted. Fine-grained network policies help isolate workloads and prevent lateral movement, strengthening your cluster’s defense-in-depth. Automated Governance & Compliance Monitoring Continuous compliance is essential to avoiding violations and audit penalties. Our solution architects will help establish integrations with existing AWS-native tools such as Security Hub, GuardDuty, and CloudTrail or third-party solutions to monitor configurations and runtime behavior. Automated checks against CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks, SOC 2, and other financial regulatory standards streamline auditing and ensure you maintain an always-ready compliance posture. Resiliency and Operational Excellence Designed with high availability and failover in mind, this solution supports multi-AZ deployments, workload redundancy, and automatic failover. It also supports hardened Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) aligned to CIS standards for node-level security. These enhancements ensure your EKS environment is not only secure but operationally resilient.

• Key Benefits • Enforce secure-by-default policies across all EKS workloads • Achieve compliance with financial regulations more easily • Prevent lateral movement and unauthorized access with mTLS and RBAC • Monitor for threats and misconfigurations with integrated security tools • Reduce deployment overhead with reusable, compliant IaC templates

As part of the service, Fortinet Experts will advise you in the following areas: • EKS Secure Design & Implementation o Follow security best practices for cluster architecture, networking, IAM, and workload isolation • Redundancy & Failover o Ensure your design meets the requirements for high availability and automatic recovery in the event of node or service failures • Supply Chain Protection o Enforce strict security controls during the build process and throughout the deployment cycle • Ingress / Egress Protection o Secure your workloads from external threats and monitor the activity of your applications • Compliance and Auditing o Ensure compliance against best practices within regulated industries

Who It's For This offering is ideal for financial institutions, FinTech’s, and payment providers running containerized workloads in AWS who need to strengthen their Kubernetes security posture while meeting audit and compliance demands.

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