How to Build a Sheltered Harbor-Compliant Data Vault on AWS

In today’s threat landscape, financial institutions must go beyond traditional disaster recovery strategies to ensure their most critical data’s integrity, availability, and survivability. Sheltered Harbor—a nonprofit industry initiative—has established standards for protecting customer account data in the event of a major cyberattack or operational disruption. At the core of these standards is the requirement for a secure, immutable, and isolated data vault (DV) that can be used to restore customer data even if all other recovery mechanisms fail.