Finance
Safeguarding Customer Data in Financial Service Networks
Because the financial service sector maintains vast quantities of highly confidential customer data, it is a favorite target of online criminal attacks and faces increasing regulations to keep that data protected. This poses a special challenge for small to mid-size financial service businesses that often have limited budgets for IT and administrative overhead.
Pervasive risks require a unified strategy
WatchGuard financial service solutions provide a strategy for unified threat management to counter the pervasive risks that financial service networks face. They provide comprehensive protection against sophisticated assaults while decreasing costs with a single, fully integrated solution. They also provide the means to demonstrate compliance with state and federal regulations governing the protection of personal financial information, such as Sarbanes Oxley and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Protecting the ultimate asset – your customers' trust
Data breaches are serious security and regulatory risks and the negative publicity that results from compromised data can be devastating for a financial service. WatchGuard solutions protect sensitive information from illicit access and theft by integrating multi-layered anti-spyware and anti-virus capabilities with a powerful intrusion prevention engine. Together they stop malicious attacks at the gateway to keep the network safe, block known spyware sites, and prevent drive-by spyware from penetrating the network as a result of web surfing.
Keep the Web a profit center
The web is a high-opportunity conduit for offering financial products and services to customers, but it also poses serious business risks by exposing the network. With a WatchGuard financial service solution, you'll have fine-grained control over the kind of web traffic that can reach your web servers. Robust security capabilities cloak critical server information, control authorization methods, shun detected attacks, and scan HTTP traffic to block threats at the gateway, before they can enter the network. Sophisticated URL filtering blocks access to web pages that are known to contain threats, including those delivering risky peer-to-peer and instant messaging technologies – two of the most common vectors for distributing malware.
How we make compliance easier
In the heavily regulated financial service sector, compliance problems often involve not being able to produce evidence that you've done your job to mitigate security risks. For example, Sarbanes Oxley has a requirement to control access to sensitive information that calls for companies to monitor log files. We make this easy with the built-in, comprehensive logging features of our management console. Use this console to set uniform security policies with the click of a mouse. Clear, simple-to-understand log messages validate that security policies throughout the organization are working as desired. Interactive monitoring enables you to take instant preventive or corrective action. With management tools like this that let you see what's going on in your network, you'll have the security auditing information you need to demonstrate compliance consistent with state and federal regulations including Sarbanes Oxley, SEC requirements, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Extend access without compromising security
When you need to connect remote offices or employees working off site, WatchGuard solutions provide the means to keep all network connections protected. They provide secure remote access to critical network resources over encrypted branch office and mobile user VPN tunnels, increasing productivity and flexibility for employees. Additionally, WatchGuard offers advanced SSL VPN technology, ideally suited for financial service organizations with traveling users connecting from varied locations who need reliable, always-on network access from any location.
Easy-to-use tools save time
WatchGuard financial service solutions, with their intuitive user interface, quick setup wizards, and drag-and-drop VPN creation make the highly complex job of IT management easier. Smart defaults provide strong security right from the start, and visually oriented configuration tools save time and effort. Centralized management allows you to see all security functions at a glance from one console, including those at remote locations, for pin-point control of any device or security service. All of this is included with your WatchGuard solution – you have no additional management products to buy.
Control IT costs with fully integrated, scalable security
Optimize your business's IT investment with one powerful, all-inclusive solution that is easier to manage and less expensive to maintain than an array of separate products. You'll get the comprehensive protection your network needs to stop attacks, while reducing interoperability issues and avoiding the cost of multiple support contracts. As business requirements and the security landscape change, you can easily add more performance, capacity, and security capabilities using downloadable software license keys, thus avoiding constant and costly hardware replacement and ensuring scalability for your growing company.
Our security experts will back you all the way
WatchGuard's team of security experts provides high-value, innovative support services for financial service organizations, with rapid-response technical support, education resources, and advice on best practices to keep security initiatives aligned with the needs of the business. Concise threat alerts come with clear instructions on how to reduce or eliminate new threats and link directly to vendor patches to save time. With a WatchGuard financial service security solution, you have more than a product – you have an expert partner committed to helping you keep your network safe.
WatchGuard financial service solutions help you maintain customer confidence and trust by ensuring the security and privacy of their financial transactions. In an increasingly dangerous world, they proactively defend your business against sophisticated network attacks so you can safely offer your services in compliance with regulatory demands. To get more information, contact your authorized WatchGuard reseller.
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