Cloud adoption across financial services continues to accelerate, but inconsistent security controls, fragmented regulatory expectations, and cloud-vendor lock-in are major obstacles to secure, compliant, multi-cloud operations. FINOS Common Cloud Controls (CCC) is an open standard developed collaboratively with financial institutions, cloud providers, and vendors that defines a unified taxonomy, threat model, and machine-verifiable control catalog for cloud services.

In this session, we will unpack how CCC addresses industry challenges, demonstrate its practical application for risk-aware cloud architecture, and illustrate how open, machine-readable control definitions and tooling can transform cloud compliance from a bespoke burden into a shared, scalable ecosystem. The talk will be valuable for cloud architects, security engineers, and standards-oriented practitioners in finance and beyond.