Shanghai Far East Securities delivers online services without compromising network security

By Victor Ng | Jun 24, 2009

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Shanghai Far East Securities has deployed Blue Coat Proxy SG appliances to expand its online financial services business without compromising network security. By creating a secure portal that allows customers outside of the corporate network to access online financial services, ProxySG appliances protect Shanghai Far East Securities from malicious attacks aimed at disrupting the company’s servers while accelerating response time for the applications.

To continually improve customer service, Shanghai Far East Securities has moved into offering online financial services. However, by providing its clients with access to its application servers, Shanghai Far East Securities created the potential for malicious attacks. To protect its network from these threats and to safeguard customer transactions and personal data, the securities company deployed Blue Coat ProxySG appliances in front of its servers act as an intermediary for customer interaction. By creating this safety net, the ProxySG appliances can block malicious threats such as denial of service attacks or other attacks that seek to overwhelm the application servers.

ProxySG appliances also enable Shanghai Far East Securities to accelerate the performance of its customer facing applications by reducing processing requirements per customer request. For frequently accessed content and information, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances cache the information locally. When a customer requests the cached information, ProxySG appliances can deliver it without going back to the server, thereby eliminating redundant computing processes.

According to Liu Shi from Shanghai Far East Securities, the ProxySG appliances eliminated corporate anxiety related to protecting its network and confidential customer information from inbound malware threats. By securing the network, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances have given Shanghai Far East Securities the confidence it needs to effectively and safely provide online financial services.

ProxySG appliances work in conjunction with the Blue Coat WebPulse service, a cloud-based security service in which the discovery of malware by one member is shared with everyone in the community.

WebPulse provides ratings of unknown content and analyzes more than one billion requests per week, ensuring it has a comprehensive profile of Web content. As new threats are discovered, WebPulse updates the ProxySG appliances so they have the most up-to-date information to protect against Web-based malware.
 

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