Evolve PavedCloud Qorus Banking Innovation Awards 2022

Evolve PavedCloud enables developers to rapidly deploy cloud resources at scale in a secure and consistent manner by: • Securing cloud service provider APIs to prevent misconfigurations, • Increasing productivity gains through architecture orchestration automation with operational best practices, and • Demonstrating auditable compliance to data protection practices. The solution streamlines service and application onboarding for application teams through built-in directive, preventive, and detective controls as well as other aspects such as control quality assurance and governance. These controls determine how features and parameters are set up before they are released to developers through the developer-first continuous delivery engine that was built to balance agility and security without a need to compromise on either. PavedCloud secures infrastructure up to the service level as controls are built into service templates which integrates multiple cloud service provider (CSP) services to deliver a particular architectural outcome (or “Service Packages”). These templates form reusable “plug and play” patterns which can be used for stateless and stateful application designs. These patterns also contain operational best practices such as backup and restore. This allows for stronger and more transparent governance as consistent provisioning outcomes can be achieved through standardised controls. PavedCloud is also built on a layer of abstraction above the cloud service provider. This removes the need for application teams from knowing specific security groups, networks, instance IDs, etc.