SCION with Digital Realty for secure, low‑latency, compliant finance
Real‑time services, tighter rules such as DORA and NIS2, and rising cyber risk are reshaping financial infrastructure. Digital Realty and the SCION Association present a practical model that blends security, performance, and compliance, powered by PlatformDIGITAL and ServiceFabric. An on‑demand session with experts from Digital Realty, SCION, and BT shows how institutions can modernize without disruption, strengthen cyber defense, scale globally, and use FINMA‑compliant, high‑performance data centers.
What SCION delivers for finance
- Path control and isolation. Teams choose explicit routes, avoid risky segments, and place traffic in trusted isolation domains.
- Multipath resilience. Multiple validated paths with automatic failover keep flows available during outages or attacks, reducing exposure from weak perimeter devices.
- Cryptographic integrity. Authenticated routes and end‑to‑end encryption protect data in motion and support tamper‑evident audit trails.
- Geofencing and data sovereignty. Traffic can be constrained to countries or regions to meet residency rules.
- Observability and forensics. Verifiable, traceable flows support investigations and long‑retention record duties.
Compliance readiness across nDSG, MiFID II, and DORA
SCION aligns with Swiss nDSG, MiFID II, and the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act in force since 17 January 2025. Transparent, verifiable paths and strong crypto back record‑keeping, incident reporting, third‑party risk controls, and data residency mandates. Banks can document where data travels and prove that flows stay inside approved zones.
Digital Realty as enabler
Digital Realty operates the first data center deployment of a SCION node, orchestrated through ServiceFabric and available across PlatformDIGITAL. Firms gain secure interconnection to clouds and partners with policy‑driven path control, plus FINMA‑aligned facilities across key metros. The result is low latency, higher resilience, and a clear operational model that scales.
Speakers include Arne Benox, Marcel Jovanovic, Prof. Adrian Perrig, Carl Morris, and Uwe Pferr. The session covers legacy integration, DDoS and BGP‑hijack mitigation, real‑time services, and rollout steps. The handbook adds checklists to score maturity across path control, multipath, isolation domains, geofencing, route authentication, and end‑to‑end encryption.
