AWS · Cross-Border Payments
Payments backbone modernized with zero-trust networking and 24×7 SecOps.
We re-architected a cross-border payments backbone on AWS with zero-trust networking, event-driven core banking and 24×7 SecOps — collapsing MTTR by 52% and lifting payments uptime to 99.99%.
[Payments uptime]
99.99%
[MTTR]
-52%
[SecOps coverage]
24×7
[ The Problem ]
Where the business was stuck.
Legacy payments backbone plagued by security gaps, long incident recovery times and audit blind spots.
[ Key Challenges ]
- ▸Flat network with over-broad trust boundaries
- ▸Incident recovery averaged 90+ minutes
- ▸No unified view of security posture across regions
Our approach
How we engineered
the outcome.
STEP 01
Zero-trust network overlay with service-mesh mTLS
STEP 02
Event sourcing on Kafka + immutable ledger
STEP 03
Unified SecOps with SIEM + SOAR and automated response
[ Solution highlights ]
Delivered — measured — in production.
- ✓Blast radius reduced with per-service identity and least-privilege
- ✓Automated runbooks close the top 20 incident types in <5 min
- ✓Continuous compliance evidence for regulators
[ Tech stack ]
Built on AWS.
AWS
Istio
Kafka
SIEM / SOAR
Terraform
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The platform now defends itself faster than our best on-call engineer used to.
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