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Financial Services Solutions
Protect your customers--and your brand
Safeguarding investments, stopping fraud, and protecting identities: these are your duties under the law and in the eyes of your customers, shareholders, and the general public. Improving application performance is just as important. Poor application reliability translates into poor customer service--and the likelihood of losing customers who rely on online services.
There are constant and ever-evolving threats to security from hackers. Regulations such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Basel II place tough demands on financial institutions to safeguard data. Growth in e-commerce and online banking requires that websites maintain the highest possible levels of availability. And as financial service organizations compete more aggressively and expand internationally, they need scalable IT infrastructures that can quickly accommodate new customers and new services.
Why do I need F5 for financial services?
F5 pioneered the development of application delivery appliances. Our technology is deployed by the world's top ten banks (by revenue) and by nine of the ten financial services companies in the Fortune 50. Most significantly for the financial services industry, F5 technology can be installed quickly without taking business-critical applications offline. F5 helps you:
Benefits of using F5 for your financial services solution include:
- Adhere to all six core areas of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard
- Provide comprehensive safeguards against unauthorized access and malicious application attacks, including all common web attacks
- Increase the performance of servers and applications by up to one-third
- Enable network teams to optimize the performance of applications across multiple, globally dispersed data centers
- Reduce the number of different solutions in the network, while improving network scalability and flexibility
- Interoperate seamlessly with enterprise solutions including those from SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, and Siebel
Top Case Studies
- ICBC Online Banking Keeps Up with Immense Traffic During the Beijing 2008 Games Using F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator
- File Virtualization Yields Big Gains in Efficiency for Major Financial Firm
- Credit Cooperatif Secures Its Online Banking Services With F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager
- American Century Investments Uses TRUE Technology and BIG-IP LTM to Achieve Highest Application Service Levels
- InCharge Institute - Uses F5 Application Security Manager to control risk management strategy
- FNZ - Financial services provider invests in future prosperity with a solid network foundation from F5
- Commerzbank - F5 helps one of Europe's leading financial institutions, solve scalability and performance issues on a local and global level
- Financial Institution - Profits with policy-based data management
- Gaitame.com - Improves WAN data transfer rates by 20x using F5's WANJet
- B-Source - Provides banking clients with secure remote access to outsourcing services with F5 FirePass SSL VPN
Top White Papers
F5 solutions guide for the financial services industry
How do I implement a solution for financial services institutions?
F5's comprehensive security solutions have made application delivery security easy and manageable. F5 delivers specific, built-in Validated Application Policies as well as an automatic policy-building engine that can quickly adapt to application updates. And for step-by-step configuration instructions, our deployment guides contain comprehensive procedures on configuring F5 devices with leading financial applications.
Top Deployment Guides
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What F5 offerings do I need for a financial services solution?
While our BIG-IP Application Security Manager is critical for financial institutions, our entire portfolio of products works together to ensure your e-commerce deployment is always secure, fast, and available.
