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Major Bank Meets Compliance, Visibility, and Security Needs through Better Network Monitoring

Case Studies

Major Bank in the Middle East/Mediterranean Region Chooses Keysight to Help it Meet Challenges of Growth and FastChanging Regulations

 

Leading Global Financial Institutions Are Revamping Data Centers for Regulatory Compliance

 

As one of the largest financial centers in the entire Middle-East/Mediterranean region, this bank maintains 300 branches and 10,000 employees. Keeping current with government-driven standards and rising technology demands has spurred the building of a new, state-of-the-art data center facility featuring 40GbE technology, plus an expanded visibility architecture leveraging Keysight solutions.

 

The bank’s needs included advanced technology, security, and a future path Construction of the new $100M data center began this year with the design of the facility itself and included air conditioning, power, and associated resources. The bank is also investing nearly $10M in the networking portion of the project, to include the latest Cisco Nexus switches.

 

Meeting the Bank’s Need to Monitor Multiple Environments

 

The target deployment features three separate elements: a data center network, a DMZ infrastructure for external bank application resources, and an Internet network for local users with Keysight monitoring all three environments. On the security side, this bank is deploying new fraud-detection technology to record financial transactions

 

Overall, the initiative includes increased focus on redundancy and availability with new monitoring tools used to mitigate issues and prevent network failures. Visibility investments include monitoring and analysis solutions from a well-known family of products and advanced cyber forensic tools.

 

The bank’s knowledgeable IT team also elected to deploy Network Packet Broker (NPB) technology to glue the system together. Although they initially chose an Keysight competitor, the bank team remained highly interested in Keysight’s advantages and resources. They maintained their engagement with Keysight’s representatives as Keysight expanded its offices and operations in the Middle East/Mediterranean region.

 

Keysight’s Solution Surpassed Competitors in Key Areas

 

While local presence was crucial, the Keysight solution offered several critical capabilities that convinced the bank team to finally choose Keysight. 

 

These include:

 

• Packet slicing capabilities, which enable only relevant information to be forwarded to select monitoring tools while protecting sensitive transaction data in order to align with security compliance mandates. 

• Support for 40GbE—the only single-source solution able to provide crucial support. No other company could offer a 40GbE multi-mode tap solution along with a chassisbased approach. 

• High port density of the versatile Keysight Vision 7300. As the heart of this robust solution, the 7300 provides end-to-end network visibility across both physical and virtual networks. 

• Dynamic Filtering: the Keysight packet broker delivers a patented solution that makes the creation of out-of-band monitoring data filters simple and easy.

 

The Bank’s 7300 Vision Solution Offers Flexibility, Cost-Efficiency, Scalability, and Performance

 

The Vision 7300 is engineered to provide monitoring and network security for large enterprises, financial institutions and service providers.

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