At the recent Vision Forex Forum, Stefano Sordini, CEO of NetShop ISP, joined an expert panel on “Next-Gen Trading Infrastructure: Fast, Secure and Audit-Ready.”
During the session, Stefano shared his perspective on how infrastructure priorities are evolving for brokers and hosting providers, and where technologies like AI truly make a difference.
Performance Alone Is No Longer Enough
Stefano highlighted a key shift in the industry.
“In the past, infrastructure was primarily focused on performance and uptime; ensuring low-latency execution and stable trading environments. Today, that is no longer sufficient. Infrastructure must now be fast, but also fully auditable and secure.“
With increasing regulatory pressure, brokers and hosting providers must ensure full visibility across their systems; including access logs, configuration changes, and incident traceability.
To support this, modern environments rely on tools such as Logstash, Kibana, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel, and ntop, enabling centralized logging, monitoring, and security analytics.
At scale, especially when dealing with massive volumes of network traffic, AI becomes highly valuable. It enables advanced traffic analysis, anomaly detection, and supports proactive DDoS mitigation.
Solutions like Microsoft Sentinel and Cisco ThousandEyes help analyze large datasets and improve automated threat response.
However, Stefano emphasized that AI is not necessary for every use case.
For basic monitoring tasks such as CPU, disk usage, and network status, traditional tools like Zabbix remain more efficient and cost-effective.
“In these cases, AI can simply add complexity without real value.”
A Balanced Approach to Modern Infrastructure
Stefano’s key message was clear: use the right tools for the right purpose.
Modern trading infrastructure must strike a balance between:
High performance
Strong security
Full auditability
Cost efficiency
As the industry evolves, success will depend not only on speed but on the ability to deliver secure, transparent, and regulator-ready environments.
