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Cloudhouse for Financial Services — FCA, SOX & DORA Compliance | Cloudhouse
Financial Services · FCA · SOX · DORA

Compliance is no longer
a quarterly audit.
It's continuous, or it's a risk.

Regulators now expect evidence of configuration state at any point in time, not a snapshot. Cloudhouse gives banks, insurers, and capital markets firms the continuous visibility their estate has always needed — and the audit trail that satisfies the FCA, SOX, and DORA without a roomful of analysts.

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70%
Cost saved vs Tripwire at Bangor Savings Bank
500+
Regulated enterprises running Cloudhouse in production
0
Audit failures reported by Guardian customers
Compliance estate · Live Guardian monitoring
FCA
Evidenced
SOX
Evidenced
DORA
Evidenced
srv-trade-prod-01 — baseline verified
0 config changes · FCA SR 2/21 compliant
09:14
db-risk-west-03 — drift detected
4 file changes · SOX control flagged · evidence logged
09:08
Scheduled change CHG-2041 reconciled
ServiceNow · approved · no variance
08:45
DORA ICT risk report generated
Quarterly evidence pack · ready for submission
08:30
The compliance problem

Your estate changes
every single day.
Your evidence doesn't.

Every patch, every hotfix, every routine administrative action changes your configuration state. Most financial services firms have no way of knowing what changed, when, by whom, and whether it was authorised — until a regulator, a pen tester, or an outage asks the question.

FCA supervisory reviews, SOX IT general controls, and now DORA's Article 9 ICT risk management requirements all demand the same thing: evidence that you know the state of your estate and can prove it hasn't deviated from a known-good baseline without authorisation.

Read our DORA compliance guide
Drift you can't see is drift you can't evidence
Without continuous monitoring, configuration changes accumulate silently. By audit time, you're reconstructing what happened from tickets, change logs, and memory — none of which satisfy an FCA examiner.
Point-in-time tools don't work for real-time obligations
Legacy tools like Tripwire scan on a schedule. DORA's Article 9 and FCA operational resilience requirements don't. Gaps between scans are exactly where unplanned changes hide.
Audit prep consumes engineering teams
When audit season arrives, highly paid infrastructure engineers spend weeks pulling evidence manually. Cloudhouse generates that evidence automatically, in real time, as a byproduct of monitoring the estate.
How Cloudhouse solves it

Continuous compliance, built into the estate.

Three capabilities that turn the compliance burden from a periodic scramble into a permanent, automated background process.

01 / Detect
Real-time drift detection
Guardian monitors configuration state continuously across servers, containers, cloud, and endpoints. The moment anything deviates from the approved baseline, you know — with full context, not just a flag.
Continuous monitoring, not scheduled scans
File integrity, registry, process, and network config
Hybrid estate coverage: on-prem, cloud, endpoints
Severity classification with auto-prioritisation
02 / Evidence
Audit-ready evidence, automatically
Every change is timestamped, attributed, and tagged against the relevant regulatory control. When the auditor asks, you open Guardian and export — no retrospective reconstruction, no analyst hours.
Pre-mapped to FCA SR 2/21, SOX ITGC, DORA Article 9
Immutable audit log with full chain of custody
Exportable reports in auditor-ready formats
Change attribution: who, what, when, authorised or not
03 / Reconcile
ITSM-native reconciliation
Guardian integrates natively with ServiceNow and other ITSM platforms. Authorised changes are automatically reconciled against the change record. Unreconciled changes are escalated immediately.
Native ServiceNow integration, bidirectional
Auto-reconcile approved vs. actual changes
ITSM escalation for unauthorised deviations
Full CMDB alignment, no manual updates
Guardian
Guardian.

The configuration compliance platform built for regulated financial services.

Guardian gives infrastructure and compliance teams a single, always-on view of their configuration estate. It replaces point-in-time scanning tools with continuous monitoring, turning compliance from a periodic burden into a permanent operational capability.

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5-minute onboarding on AWS
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No agent sprawl — agentless architecture
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Tripwire replacement, fraction of the cost
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FCA, SOX, DORA evidence pre-mapped
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ServiceNow-native reconciliation
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Hybrid estate: on-prem, cloud, endpoints
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Regulation Requirement Guardian coverage
FCA SR 2/21 Operational resilience — continuous monitoring of systems in scope Covered
SOX ITGC Change management controls, access controls, evidence of review Covered
DORA Art. 9 ICT risk management framework, continuous asset monitoring Covered
DORA Art. 17 ICT-related incident classification and reporting Covered
PCI DSS v4.0 Requirement 10 — log management and integrity monitoring Covered
ISO 27001 A.12.4 — logging and monitoring, A.12.5 control of operational software Covered
Foundry.
For financial services firms managing legacy application estates alongside compliance obligations, Foundry packages and modernises applications without touching source code — reducing the attack surface and the legacy OS risk that regulators increasingly scrutinise.
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Customer outcomes

Proof from the regulated estate.

GuardianFinancial Services · Compliance

"Guardian gives us unparalleled visibility into our environment. Regulators often ask how we ensure compliance, and with Guardian, we can confidently prove it."

Bangor Savings Bank
Head of Infrastructure Security
70%
Cost saved vs prior tooling
GuardianCapital Markets

"We replaced Tripwire and reduced our compliance overhead by more than half. The audit pack that used to take three weeks to prepare is now a report we run in minutes."

NYSE-listed institution
VP Infrastructure & Security
3wk→mins
Audit prep time
White paper · Free download
Continuous compliance in the DORA era: what configuration evidence regulators now expect

A practical guide for heads of infrastructure and compliance teams in regulated financial services. Covers FCA SR 2/21, SOX ITGC, and DORA Article 9 — what each requires, how Guardian maps to those obligations, and a deployment blueprint for firms replacing legacy scanning tools.

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Compliance doesn't wait.
Neither should you.

Tell us where the pressure is — a Tripwire renewal, a DORA deadline, an upcoming FCA review, or an audit finding. We'll show you Guardian in your estate, not a generic demo.

Tripwire or BigFix renewal coming up? We'll map a migration path.
DORA Article 9 ICT risk management obligations? We'll show you the evidence pack.
FCA operational resilience review? We'll walk through how Guardian meets the framework.
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