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SecuraNET UTM – Why it is important for E-Commerce, Banking & Trading

Some specific reasons why the SecuraNET UTM appeals to IT professionals in financial services include:

•  Banking and financial market networks are widely deemed to be “critical infrastructure.” In many instances, the transactions being processed represent not only the life savings of individuals, but the lifeblood of the global economy. As such, the level of criticality and sensitivity of computing functions being conducted on financial networks often exceeds that associated with the networks of typical commercial organizations. From an information security perspective, this should translated into a higher standard of due care.
•  Many financial institutions continue to operate significant amounts of legacy computing infrastructure, including numerous mainframe-based applications. These systems are often fully inter-connected with more modern systems and continue to perform mission-critical functions. However, many of these older systems are exposed to network-borne threats and these institutions cannot afford to take them out of service for remediation.
• Financial market firms must deal with sky-rocketing trading volumes and the resulting availability, capacity, and performance requirements of associated networks and systems.

• Install advanced Firewall, DMZ, IDs (Intrusion detection) and IPs (Intrusion Prevention) system.
• Require high Security VPN.
• Require Communication Server, an add-on module. It might serve for the purpose of mail client like Outlook, having features such as Organizer, address book, notes, tasks, schedulers, vacation response etc...
• Proxy server for the needs of Internet in the organization.
• Log Generation & Reporting module provided internet access, firewall, logs, VPN logs etc

• Enables ‘roaming’ staff of to gain secure access to vital applications while they are on the move.
• Worry-free protection for secure data transfers and on-demand reporting capabilities that allows the company to prove compliance with new banking regulations.
• The UTM implementation achieved consolidation, reduced complexity, improved firewall intrusion detection and provided load balancing integrated into a single system supporting multiple applications. It lowered operating costs and standardized our security platform globally.
• That allowed us to maintain Six Sigma-level quality while handling more than one billion transactions a year in online bill payment services. We are a trusted partner for many of the world's largest banks, and the reason we have garnered this trust is because we can manage the risk of the financial transactions. We believe UTM gives us a significant quality advantage to handle the exploding growth of online bill payment services.
• UTM appliances make it possible for security administrators to monitor and manage assorted security services from one place rather than having to jump from one tool to another, thus reducing complexity and saving time. For instance, a UTM appliance can be used to check for signature updates, schedule updates of all security services concurrently, track recent activity and alerts, view reports and manage security policy.
• In particular, UTM is more adept than a collection of standalone security products at protecting against blended threats, which generally intend real harm and attempt to maximize damage and rate of contagion by combining attack methods while also exploiting system and network vulnerabilities. A blended attack might involve, say, an email attachment harboring a virus as well as an HTML file carrying a trojan horse, or it might combine adware, spyware and malware (the latter two cloaked in the adware).
• Guarding against blended threats requires just the sort of coordinated security delivered by UTM, including reliable firewalls and intrusion detection, up-to-date anti-virus software and attentive patch management.
• Acquiring a UTM appliance is not an instant cure for your bank’s security woes. Remember, a UTM helps manage threats. Sadly, it cannot eliminate them. So protecting your bank’s information and technology assets continues to require unending vigilance and substantial and constantly-evolving technical expertise – including the ability to analyze security reports for threat patterns. In this context, there are two ways to bring the benefits of UTM to your bank: 
• Deploy a UTM after carefully assessing both your bank’s current and future security requirements and how effectively various UTM appliances will meet those requirements. Or engage a managed services provider with proven expertise in ensuring the security of bank networks, systems, and data with sophisticated, integrated auditing, real-time monitoring, management, and analysis capabilities. You’ll get all that a UTM delivers and a great deal more.