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IT Management for Financial and Insurance Services

Enterprise-grade network, server and application monitoring at a fraction of the cost
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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."
- Edgars Smilgzdruvs, Senior IT Network Engineer, Nordea Bank, Sweden
Application Performance Monitor
  • 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
  • Always-up – customers and staff need critical applications to perform well, which depends on consolidating application performance monitoring with network and systems monitoring

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."
- 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 Log Management to eliminate exposure to security breaches, malware, loss or damage, and protect your organization against costly financial penalties and legal liabilities.

 

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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

Discover (layer 2/3), map, document and inventory your entire infrastructure including wired and wireless, physical and virtual hardware, systems and software assets

Scale from 25 devices to 20,000 devices with additional pollers

Generate the network topology maps that you need to prove compliance with PCI DSS

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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

Discover, map, monitor and manage your VM infrastructure for higher utilization and prevent virtual sprawl

WhatsVirtual

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.

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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 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 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

 

Customer Success Stories: Case Studies

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Nordea Bank, Sweden

"The most valuable benefit is keeping Nordea Bank’s corporate network up and running, and WhatsUp Gold has met all our needs and expectations." Edgars Smilgzdruvs, Senior IT Network Engineer, Nordea Bank, Sweden

Following the emergence of Nordea Bank in its current form after a series of mergers, its growth meant that by 2007 it had built a large and cumbersome network of IT assets in the New European Markets (NEM) of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia. Reliable IT infrastructure was vital to the banks continued expansion and it became rapidly clear that the banks networks in these countries needed, somehow, to be made centrally manageable. The bank needed up to date and fully featured network monitoring capabilities. It identified an opportunity to acquire the necessary capability at a fraction of the cost of most network monitoring products, in Ipswitch’s WhatsUp Gold family of products.

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Alabama One Credit Union

Alabama One Credit Union, USA

"Within minutes of completing the install, the network was discovered. The benefits were immediate. For the first time we could monitor the status of all business critical network devices in real time — and hear an audible alert the minute there's an issue."Chris Koskodan, Network Administrator, Alabama One Credit Union, USA

Chartered in 1951 with just $35 in assets, Alabama One today is a multi-million dollar full-service financial institution headquartered in Tuscaloosa with 10 locations throughout the state. In 2009 it merged with Alabama 1st Capital Credit Union, expanding new members by 10,000 and growing assets by more than $50 million, while adding two branch locations. Adding the new branch locations to Alabama One's network after the merger was straightforward and fast, with the install aided by WhatsUp Gold.

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