The global financial infrastructure is under unprecedented stress. While your "core" .NET Framework applications have provided years of stability, their "perimeter-first" security foundation is increasingly obsolete in an era of advanced persistent threats.

When your institution continues to operate nearly-two decade-old monolithic systems, it is not only that you are operating with technical debt, but it is also a substantial security liability.

The Underground Bases of the “Trusted Zone”.

Conventional security approaches considered the internal network to be a trusted zone; all defenses were placed on the edge. That is gambling today. Once one foothold is obtained by an attacker, a legacy monolith provides essentially no lateral resistance.

Our recent whitepaper, The Zero-Trust Transition: Hardening Legacy Financial Systems with Modernization of .NET, examines the urgent need to make the sharp transition between IP-based trust and the explore-never trust, always-verify architecture.

What's Inside the Whitepaper?

We explore the technical and strategic changes necessary to safeguard Tier-1 and Tier-2 financial assets. You'll discover:

• The Secret Management Problem: The reason why legacy web.config files and hard-coded credentials are a time bomb - and how Secret-less Architecture alters the game.
• Beyond JIT Compilation: The Effectiveness of Native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) Compilation in removing whole classes of memory-injection attacks.
• The "Distroless" Strategy: A perspective on why contemporary financial institutions are progressing towards the type of containers, known as black boxes, which are not permeable to tools with which attackers can move horizontally.
• Compliance by Design: How to meet tight DORA and PCI-DSS 4.0 standards and at the same time save infrastructure compute by as much as 50 percent.

The Risk of Modernizing Without the Big Bang

Replacing the engine of a plane during flight is a challenging task to any IT leader. This whitepaper describes a measured, methodical, step-by-step, process of hardening your core without even a second of downtime, by utilizing proven architectural patterns.

The dangers of continuing to use old infrastructure in the form of regulatory fines, catastrophic breaches, and loss of talent greatly surpass the difficulties of modernizing.

Protect Your Digital Infrastructure

Your legacy systems should not be your biggest vulnerability. Get familiar with the technical context of the next generation of financial hardening built on .NET 8 and 9.

Get the Full Whitepaper.