As the network manager for a financial or insurance services firm, you provide the critical services and infrastructure that enables your business to function successfully. And, with more stringent security laws and more scrutiny around compliance regulations, you must protect your organization from hefty fines by ensuring that PCI, SOX, Basel II and other critical regulations are being met.
- Are you tasked with ensuring compliance with increasingly complex financial regulations?
- Are you looking for cost-effective ways to manage your infrastructure?
- Do you need time because your systems and responsibilities constantly growing in complexity and scope?
Financial and Insurance services firms rely on a functional and secure IT infrastructure to provide mission-critical business applications and ensure compliance with increasingly complex and scrutinizing regulations.
"WhatsUp Gold’s network monitoring capabilities mean that we are able to identify any problems in the network and react quickly to them. WhatsUp Gold is able to recognize problems graphically and it helps to resolve them quickly."
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Edgars Smilgzdruvs, Senior IT Network Engineer, Nordea Bank, Sweden
- Security & Compliance – New regulations and enforcement measures require financial and insurance institutions to meet strict standards for data protection
- Always-On – customers and partners of financial and insurance services firms expect and demand 24/7 availability of applications
- The Cloud – your company will be consuming and providing data, communication and collaborations tools providing essential links to the information your customers, employees and business partners demand
- Mobile banking – customers are increasingly expecting the ability to perform a majority of tasks via online portals and applications, requiring secure, reliable connectivity to your network
Are you ready to save time and money with a powerful, affordable set of products that will ensure you provide these expected services? WhatsUp Gold is the answer for you.
Best Value IT Management for Financial and Insurance Services
WhatsUp Gold's IT Management solution offers the best value for financial and insurance services firms:
"It delivers all the features and functionality we expect and need in order to maintain network uptime for our members. To put it simply: without WhatsUp Gold I would not be able to get my job done."
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Chris Koskodan, network administrator, Alabama One Credit Union, USA
Proven for Financial and Insurance Services – Worldwide financial and insurance firms of all sizes – from small banks to global financial entities utilize WhatsUp Gold for complete IT management.
Quick Implementation, Easy Configuration and Low Operating Cost – Despite WhatsUp Gold's robust feature set, it is very easy to install and configure. A typical install requires less than 1 hour, and a full implementation can be complete in a matter of hours. Plus, its intuitive interface minimizes the amount of training required for proficiency.
Simple Licensing Model – simple and straight-forward pricing – just count the number of devices you need to monitor – plus there are no hidden costs or surprises at the end.
Air-tight security– WhatsUp Gold uses the highest level of security and protection on the market — FIPS 140-2 encryption — for all data storage, network connectivity and LDAP connections.
Regulatory Compliance – Use WhatsUp Event Log Management to eliminate exposure to security breaches, malware, loss or damage, and protect your organization against costly financial penalties and legal liabilities.
WhatsUp Gold delivers robust, secure, and affordable products that make IT Management simple. With nearly two decades of providing solutions to financial and insurance services customers around the globe and a broad network of regional reseller relationships — WhatsUp Gold is an ideal partner for your IT Management initiatives.
Comprehensive Features
Discover, map and manage your entire IT infrastructure – network devices, servers, applications, virtual resources, VoIP, configuration settings, events and network traffic – from a single console. Built on an integrated, extensible and scalable architecture - one installation, one console, one Alert Center & one integrated discovery – you select the custom solution that is right for you:
Manage network devices, servers, virtual resources and applications from the same console |
WhatsUp Gold |
Discover (layer 2/3), map, document and inventory your entire infrastructure
Generate the network topology maps that you need to prove compliance with PCI DSS |
WhatsConnected |
Automate configuration & change management |
WhatsConfigured |
Understand network traffic and bandwidth usage — who and how
Secure your network by uncovering traffic abnormalities that may indicate viruses, malware and other rogue activity |
WhatsUp Flow Monitor |
Assure network quality for IP Telephony |
WhatsUp VoIP Monitor |
Work Across Networks, Buildings, States, Countries and Continents - WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition provides scalable and secure management and monitoring of any number of remote sites from a centralized site, with centralized reports, rotating views, and drill-down capabilities to remote sites and problematic devices.
Financial and Insurance companies are increasingly under pressure to comply with complex regulations related to data security.
Financial institutions must have in place a policy to protect information from foreseeable threats in security and data integrity - including a written information security plan |
GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) |
Banking institutions located outside the United States should follow broad recommendations on how to maintain operational oversight of all financial applications, data and reporting. |
Basel II |
EU standards for member countries' laws including data protection and security aspects for internal systems and controls outsourcing, safeguarding of client financial instruments or money held by firms, transaction reporting and record-keeping effective control and safeguarding arrangements for information process systems |
MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) |
US Public company or accounting firm or are becoming part of one through an acquisition or merger – your management needs to certify the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting |
SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) |
Merchant or provider organizations that handle or store customer credit card data and related information need to abide by the guidelines on building, managing and testing of IT infrastructure. |
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry – Data Security |
Contracting organization that provides services to the Government have to document risk assessment planning and security event monitoring and triage processes. |
FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) |
Any employer in USA is mandated to protect employee privacy information. Organizations are required to "audit and monitor system and user activity across the entire network, identify and investigate security breaches and suspicious behavior, and maintain an audit trail of user and network activity," and specifies that companies must "retain and protect log data as evidence [for] up to 6 years.". |
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) |
WhatsUp Gold Event Log Management Suite
Reduce exposure to security breaches, malware, loss or damage, and protect your organization against costly financial penalties and legal liabilities with WhatsUp Event Log Management Suite, in a cost-effective way.
At a glance
Overview |
Benefits |
How |
Automatically collect, store, archive and backup all log files |
Save time; get rid of time-consuming manual processes; automatically comply with multi-year data storage regulatory requirements |
Use Event Archiver |
Monitor Windows event & Syslog data in real-time to receive alerts and notifications at the first sign of trouble |
Respond faster to network outages or security threats; prevent a security threat from becoming a breach |
Use Event Alarm |
Filter, Analyze and Report on Log Data to verify the success of internal security policies, and demonstrate regulatory compliance; Generate custom reports for IT personnel, security and compliance officers, and even law enforcement agencies |
Get answers, when you need them; reduce risks and liabilities |
Use Event Analyst |
Spot check and review log files much faster to quickly respond to an emergency incident |
Easily spot check and routinely review log files while maintaining log file store integrity |
Use Event Rover |
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