Globalization, increased volatility, and new regulations including GLBA and Sarbanes-Oxley have made the financial services sector increasingly complex. Deploying differentiated offerings, improving customer service, and improving employee productivity in today's constantly changing environment presents enormous business challenges. As organizations turn to IT and Web-enabled applications to gain advantage, solutions must deliver productivity gains, profits, and return-on-investment (ROI) while maintaining control, visibility, and compliance.

Key Benefits:

  • A high-value secure remote access solution for financial services institutions, transparent to the end user and simple to deploy and manage for the IT administrator

  • Robust endpoint security enables employees, customers, and partners to safely access confidential online financial records from any device in any location

  • Comply with domestic regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and various other international security mandates

  • Performance, availability, and security for business critical activities including: planning, analysis, decision making, financial transactions, payments, and risk management

  • Data center consolidation, reduced bandwidth consumption, and increased capacity dramatically reduce costs, generating demonstrable ROI

Universal Access Control for Financial Services

To take advantage of business opportunities when and where they arise – and to make informed decisions that maximize revenue – employees, agents, business partners, and mobile workers require real-time secure access to business-critical knowledge. Array SSL VPN secure remote access solutions provide clientless anytime, anywhere access to intranets, portals, knowledge management systems, and financial services applications from any device – putting valuable and timely information in the hands of professionals while it can provide business advantage.

In addition to driving profits and productivity for the firm, Array SSL VPN solutions also make solid business sense for IT. End-to-end security and granular access control ensure regulatory compliance, giving appropriate persons access to specific authorized resources. A clientless architecture eliminates the burdensome management and support associated with IPSec VPNs and traditional remote access solutions. And a single Array appliance scales to support any size user base, simplifying management and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

Case Study

Moody's KMV replaced under-performing load balancers and SSL accelerators with an integrated Array traffic management solution – improving performance, availability, and security in one shot and saving thousands of dollars over alternative solutions. <Learn More>


Application Delivery for Financial Services

Web-enabled applications streamline critical business activities and assist in acquiring, retaining, and expanding customer relationships. With the Internet emerging as an essential resource to clients and partners, financial services organizations must ensure that this point of contact provides the seamless, high quality experience that customers and partners expect. Custom trading and customer service applications, as well as internal applications such as HR, ERP and CRM, all demand the highest level of performance, availability, and security.

Array traffic management solutions help financial services firms address this range of requirements, providing the application tier technology necessary to support business critical activities. TCP optimization and advanced load balancing ensure application availability and peak performance, while WebWall™ security protects against denial of service attacks, worms, viruses and application-level intrusions. And as a positive consequence, bandwidth consumption is reduced and server capacity is increased – directly boosting the firm's bottom line results.