WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

Finance

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 financial service businesses that have tight budgets for IT and administrative overhead and need a cost-effective solution.

Industry Concerns:

• Data breaches - Illicit access to and theft of confidential personal information are serious security and regulatory risks and the negative publicity that results from compromised data can be devastating for a financial service provider.
• Keeping 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 to multiple threats.
• Meeting compliance requirements - In the heavily regulated financial service sector, compliance often hinges on being able to produce evidence that you've done your job to mitigate security risks.
• Remote connections - Traveling users connecting from varied locations need reliable, always-on network access from any locations without compromising the network. New technologies provide many more options for connectivity, including handheld devices with wireless capabilities, that must also be secured.

WatchGuard XTM solutions combine the robust security, advanced networking, strong performance, and powerful management tools necessary to keep your financial service network in business.

Extensible Threat Management for Financial Services

Impressive innovations in unified threat management (UTM) technology have led to a new class of security product – extensible threat management (XTM) solutions. XTM delivers stronger security, enhanced networking capabilities, and more management flexibility, as well as greater IT investment protection.

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
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 inbound and outbound HTTP and HTTPS traffic for threats. 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.

Manage Security with Maximum Efficiency
WatchGuard offers three management environments for its XTM security solutions. This gives IT administrators the flexibility to configure and monitor appliances in the way that works best for them at any given time.

• Scriptable CLI supports interoperability and allows easy integration into existing infrastructure.
• Web UI allows administrators to manage network security from anywhere, without having to install management software.
• An intuitive console offers streamlined, centralized management. See security functions at a glance from one console, including those at far-flung branch offces, for pin-point control of any device or security service. Send out configuration, firmware, and licensing updates to hundreds of boxes in one move instead of box by box.

All of this is included with your WatchGuard solution – you have no additional management products to buy.

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