Customer – Monitoring of critical applications

Industry type – Financial

Solution provided – Fortinet firewall

Challenges faced by the company

• The increasing emphasis of financial compliance regulations to ensure the integrity of data exchanges between partners created the opportunity to re architect key components of the company’s security stack
• The criticality of maintaining near-real-time performance – especially for critical markets and trading floor applications – made throughput and the rapid execution of traffic inspections critical considerations for the new infrastructure design.
• The magnitude and complexity of the organization’s environment created challenges in monitoring and managing the network infrastructure.

Solution provided

• FortiGate
• FortiManager

Benefits

• Sophisticated protection combined with unrivalled performance
• Continued compliance with evolving financial regulations
• Enhanced efficiency and effectiveness
• API-enabled automation and intra-stack coordination

CUSTOMER – Cost effective solution for expanding LAN, WAN networks

YEAR – 2006

SOLUTION PROVIDED –
WatchGuard Technologies - Network Security

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CUSTOMER –
SRTG was finding it difficult – and expensive – to enlarge its network to accommodate expansion, monitor WAN operations, and troubleshoot problems. To stay on top of growth, SRTG had to repeatedly purchase more equipment. And to keep its highly complex network functioning smoothly, it had to outsource engineering support.

BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER GAINED –
A substantial benefit for SRTG was the low cost of M2R’s solution – a benefit due in large part to the cost-effectiveness of the firewalls. Not only was the initial price less than many competitive products, their design also enabled M2R to get the job done with far less equipment. The high bandwidth of the WatchGuard products was another advantage, as the credit unions that SRTG supports generate considerable traffic.

CUSTOMER – Southern Management Corporation, Greenville

YEAR – 2006

SOLUTION PROVIDED –
WatchGuard Technologies - Network Security

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CUSTOMER –
Each branch office has at least two computers, one configured for loans, another for tax work. On a daily basis, the data is transferred via a VPN tunnel to the corporate data center for storage, back-up, and auditing. Connection to the corporate data was lost, and loan processors in the branches could not pull credit reports or access other credit data.

BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER GAINED –
With the Peak unit in place, Gary began distributing all 200 Edge X10e-W’s to the field. Branch-by-branch, the dropped connections disappeared. And he began to discover the full ease-of-management of WatchGuard.

CUSTOMER – A.C. Choksi

YEAR – 2005

SOLUTION PROVIDED –
GajShield Security Appliance

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CUSTOMER –
A.C. Choksi was growing its business at a fast pace and a vital necessity for such a business was the ability to have open communications and collaborations among company, customers and employees. The Requirements –

• solution that ensure openly robust, yet secure network infrastructure to protect information assets and to ensure business continuity
• high network availability, data integrity, privacy and security threats
• ease of security solution administration and management
• Meeting logging, reporting, auditing, and compliance requirements.

BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER GAINED –
A.C. Choksi implemented GajShield Integrated Security Appliance – GS 50 – 7 port appliance at the Head office’s appliance at the Head office’s Internet Gateway to ward of hackers and protects their network from viruses, spywares etc.

• Firewall policies were defined to allow access for specific applications from the corporate LAN network to the internet and vice versa.
• GajShield anti-virus engine for complete anti-virus protection for web surfing with gateway-level scanning and blocking of standard web protocols like HTTP and FTP.
• Leased Line, ISDN dial up and as these users also connected to the internet there were possibility of intrusion attacks originating from these systems.
• URL Filtering was implemented enabling the IT staff to set and enforce web access policies across an entire network without creating huge hurdles to deployment or maintenance.