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<strong>Areas to Focus for Blending Security & Performance </strong>
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Security and performance are important equally for financial services businesses and neither can be taken at the cost of others. To get the balance, financial organizations must blend security and performance by applying tools and policies emphasizing flexibility, operational efficiency, 
compliance, and visibility. 
The competitive landscape necessitates the organizations to quicken cloud adoption as well as digitization. The key is to develop a security infrastructure and corresponding security policies that can adapt to the new environments while emphasizing flexibility and agility. This enables secure, submissive access to cloud services as well as traditional data centers. 
In a highly regulated space, financial teams must have access to reporting that validates compliance across numerous regulations, along with recommendations when requirements are not met. If compliance reporting and the application of suggested changes can all be automatic, IT and governance teams can save huge on time by not having to be unfocussed from more 
strategic initiatives to talk about the issues resulting due to compliance audits. They also must make policies that confirm visibility into every digital tool and device working within the network. Without this rich visibility, financial organizations are exposed to data-leakage, non- compliance, and insider threats. This necessitates breaking down siloes existing between the point security solutions.
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<strong>Final Thoughts </strong>
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Since financial services networks are expanding through digitization, and cybercriminals are accelerating attacks against the increasing attack surface, financial organizations need to focus on prioritizing performance and security simultaneously. Focusing on simplified compliance reporting, flexibility, visibility, and efficiency are important for staying competitive and evading security incidents in high-stakes and high-paced digital marketplace. 
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