Fortune 100 Bank Network and Application Infrastructure Resiliency

The bank’s Network Security team used the BreakingPoint Storm™ to institutionalize a Network Security Certification process to measure the resiliency—performance, security, and stability—of every element of the network before and after deployment.

Challenge

The goal for the team was to “rightsize” the infrastructure for each line of business without introducing risk, ensuring that they neither over- nor under-invested in the network infrastructure. The team uses the BreakingPoint Storm to conduct a standardized and repeatable program for “certifying” that devices are able to:

• Protect sensitive customer data from external attack and insider threats.
• Ensure secure, rapid financial transactions.
• Reduce the risk of legal liabilities associated with noncompliance.

Solution

Before certifying equipment and systems as production-ready, the team must understand the true breaking point of each piece of equipment and of the network as a whole. To do this, they use the BreakingPoint Storm to recreate Internet-scale network conditions to:

• Stress infrastructures to assess capacity and confirm appropriate IT investments.
• Validate functionality and defenses under high-stress load and attack.
• Measure the Resiliency Score™ of all IT elements prior to purchase, prior to deployment, and following configuration changes.
• Validate accuracy of Data Loss Prevention solutions.

The team also keeps the bank's systems perpetually resilient by validating performance, security, and stability with the constantly updated BreakingPoint Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) program.

Results

Using the BreakingPoint Storm, the group was able to rightsize the overall IT infrastructure while hardening the resiliency of network and data center devices and systems. The rigorous process that the team has put in place allows this Fortune 100 bank to:

• Improve rigor in security, performance, stability, and compliance processes.
• Balance security and performance of infrastructures to meet business objectives.
• Gain insight in advance as to how all devices, networks, and applications will perform prior to deployment.
• Reduce overall IT costs.

Financial services companies have much on the line when it comes to protecting sensitive customer data and ensuring the security of the financial transactions that traverse their network and data center infrastructures. This major bank is leveraging the realism, ease of use, and scalability of the BreakingPoint Storm to optimize network and data center resiliency, both now and in the future.

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