High Availability vs Infrastructure Cost
Design active-active geographic redundancy as the default architecture to meet NIS2 continuity obligations for essential financial services without over-provisioning cost.
CyberTRIZ analysis · Banking contradiction OR001 · one of 8,235 worked contradictions published by CyberTRIZ.AI
Regulations
Business Context
Banks must maintain continuous availability of critical services, but redundant infrastructure significantly increases operational expenditure.
Banking TRIZ Resolution
Deploy active-active architectures, geographic redundancy, cloud elasticity, and automated failover to maximize resilience while optimizing infrastructure utilization.
Recommended Principles
Principle 11 - Cushion in Advance
Principle 26 - Copying
Principle 40 - Composite Materials
Expected Outcome
Higher availability
Lower downtime
Better operational resilience
TRIZ principles applied
P11 Cushion in AdvanceP26 CopyingP40 Composite Materials
Controls that address this (22)
EU_NIS2-CTRL-001 - Daily safeguarding reconciliationoperational · critical priority · Daily reconciliation between safeguarded customer balances, core ledger balances and safeguarded bank accounts. Variances above EUR 100 mustEU_NIS2-CTRL-002 - Critical ICT incident reportingoperational · critical priority · All major ICT incidents impacting payment services, customer data or availability must be classified within 4 hours and reported under DORA EU_NIS2-CTRL-003 - GDPR breach notification workflowoperational · critical priority · Personal data breaches must be assessed within 12 hours and reported to the Belgian DPA within 72 hours where risk to data subjects exists.