Network Behavior Analysis for Finance

Netfort have refined the LANGuardian so that it meets the requirements of the Finance sector In an increasingly demanding regulatory environment, network managers in retail and investment banks and insurance firms need both to secure their networks and to be able to demonstrate their security. As a rule, perimeter security is excellent in this sector but managers often have poor visibility into their internal network activity and are unable to trace individual named user activity and link it to suspicious behaviors. As in other sectors, there is also a continuous drive to improve capacity planning and reduce bottlenecks.

In our experience the following are of particular focus to network managers in the finance sector:

  • Visibility of internal network traffic
  • Capacity planning and network performance
  • IT Security
  • Reliability
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Historical traceability of individual user activity on the network including files accessed
  • Problem identification, troubleshooting & resolution

In response, NetFort have added a range of features that specifically meet the needs of finance network professionals, including support for capacity planning, forensics, tracking named user activity and our unique self governance feature.

The self governance option sends each user a report on a weekly or daily basis showing them their personal web usage, any security or usage events they may have generated and network traffic usage for the previous day or week. Tests have shown that where this feature is enabled there has been a significant reduction in the amount of internal and Internet activity on the network being monitored.

Key benefits we provide include:

  • Visibility of all network activity via one interface
  • Network performance improvement
  • Policy enforcement, compliance and governance
  • Monitoring of individual named user activity