The scope of the SMR was last month extended beyond banking and insurance workers to thousands of asset managers, hedge fund managers and other professionals in the fixed income, commodity and currency markets. Last week, the rules were extended once again to include individuals dealing with clients and algorithmic traders. Does this now include you? Read on to find out how you can prepare for the SMR with StratexPoint.
Read MoreThree Little Known but High Value Capabilities of StratexPoint – Part 3: Stratex Benchmarking
In the third and final post in this series about little known but high value capabilities within StratexPoint, we will discuss the Stratex Benchmarking capability which is made up of two parts of functionality within the StratexPoint solution. The first is the Analysis Group functionality, and the second is the Benchmark’s inclusion within a number of the StratexPoint Global lists.
Read MoreThree Little Known but High Value Capabilities of StratexPoint – Part 2: Stratex Timebox
In the second post in this series about little known but high value capabilities within StratexPoint, we will discuss the Stratex Timebox.
Read MoreThree Little Known but High Value Capabilities of StratexPoint – Part 1: Stratex Bridge
In a series of three posts, we will provide an outline of three little known but high value capabilities within StratexPoint which you, our customers, may not be taking full advantage of. We will also outline scenarios where they can be used. These capabilities include:
1) Stratex Bridge
2) Stratex Timebox
3) Stratex Benchmarking
Read MorePress Release: Another challenger bank selects StratexPoint as its prime risk monitoring solution
13th April 2015, London, UK. Another challenger bank has selected the StratexPoint Enterprise GRC solution from StratexSystems to monitor and manage its third party and conduct risk.
As well as meeting its first line of defence responsibilities, the client will use StratexPoint to proactively monitor risk across hundreds of processes that are outsourced to various third-party providers, ensuring that their performance is completely aligned with its own. This will enable StratexPoint to provide assurance to the Board and the regulator that it is delivering the right customer outcomes, and fully meeting its conduct risk management obligations.
Read MorePress Release: Leading European Financial Services Regulator chooses StratexPoint as its regulatory risk solution
2nd February 2015, London, UK. A leading European Financial Services Regulator has deployed the StratexPoint solution from StratexSystems to underpin its regulatory risk framework, as it seeks to enforce an intensive and intrusive supervisory approach in the wake of the 2008 credit crunch. The solution enables the regulator to deliver its statutory objectives, which are focused on maintaining the stability of the financial services sector, by supporting the supervisory activity across 30,000 regulated firms.
Read MorePress Release: UK Financial Services Regulator chooses StratexPoint as its regulatory risk management solution
StratexSystems’ software tool is set to take UK financial services industry to an improved level of maturity in risk management and strategy execution.
10th November 2014, London, UK. A UK Financial Services Regulator has deployed the StratexPoint solution from StratexSystems as an enterprise-wide Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) solution that underpins its regulatory risk framework. The software enables our client to deliver its statutory objectives, which are focused on maintaining the stability of the financial services sector by supporting the regulation of around 1,700 of the UK’s largest and most important financial services firms.
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Hosting on Microsoft Azure Environment
Overview of Stratex Environment for Microsoft Azure
StratexSystems hosts StratexPoint in the Microsoft Azure environment. We have dedicated resources to Azure which includes ongoing management through the management portal.
Through Azure Management Portal we can access our Cloud Service (hosted service) deployment and management tasks as well as at-a-glance status information that lets us know the overall health of our deployments and accounts. The Management Portal organises the components of our Azure deployments with constantly refreshed information that is easy to discover and understand.
Data Security Framework
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure. Azure was chosen for its’ ability to create comprehensive virtual environments, with import functionalities for applications from existing on premise hosted server systems, as well as providing solid data management features.
Azure is described as a "cloud layer" on top of a number of Windows Server systems, which use Windows Server 2008 and a customised version of Hyper-V, known as the Windows Azure Hypervisor to provide virtualization of services. Set as a cluster hosted at Microsoft's datacentres that manages computing and storage resources of the computers and provisions the resources (or a subset of them) to applications running on top of Azure.
Scaling and reliability are controlled by what is termed as Azure Fabric Controller. Services and the environment do not crash if one of the servers fails within the Microsoft datacentre and provides the management of the user's web application like memory resources and load balancing.
Azure is compliant with the E.U. Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC). Privacy and Security related concerns are managed in the Azure Trust Centre, and Azure has several of its services compliant with several compliance programs including ISO 27001:2005 and HIPAA. A full and current listing can be found on the Windows Azure Trust Centre Compliance page:
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/trust-center/compliance
To view more information on Azure, please visit the Azure homepage:
http://www.windowsazure.com
New StratexPoint Introduction Animation
StartexSystems are really pleased with our brand new 40 sec StratexPoint Intro Animation Video. It's the perfect summary of our integrated strategy execution & risk management solution based on Microsoft's SharePoint framework.
MS12-066 - Important Security Hotfix that applies to SharePoint 2010 & MOSS 2007
StratexSystems has been informed by one of Microsoft's Sharepoint Engineers of a new and critical hotfix:
"As you may have noticed this morning , anyone who has WSUS activated on their servers would have been prompted by the security bulletin MS12-066 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS12-066 (KB 2741517) This Hotfix applies to SharePoint 2010 and MOSS 2007. It fixes a vulnerability that allows elevation of privileges.
As the hotfix is critical, it will be installed automaticaly. So, after the installation, it's mandatory to execute PSCONFIG on every single server of the farm => "psconfig –cmd upgrade –inplace b2b -wait" to complete the update process."
If this post is relevant to your Sharepoint Solution, then we hope that you are able to fix it and continue as normal.
Kind regards,
StartexSystems Development Team
