Data Center Security for a Private Financial Company
A Private Financial Company was setting up an Internet Data Center (IDC) at their Corporate Head Quarters to enable E-Securities trading system for their customers to carry out shares trading over Extranets & Internet. This (IDC) comprised of:
-Server Farms of Data Center
- Public access servers in Data Center
- Internet link to two ISPs
- WAN Links to NSE, BSE
- WAN Link to their Regional offices
- LAN within office
- LAN links from their group companies
- Extranet VPN
HCL Infosystems Ltd. with vast experience in designing & implementing complex IT solutions has done the following activities - design consulting & implementation for making the above IDC setup of Financial company secure against internal and external threats.
The Scope of Services were:
a) To design a suitable network security solution for the context described above
b) To implement the security solution designed above after concurrence from company on the network security design aspect.
c) To deploy the security and access policies that company has for their operating business environment in order to facilitate their users to use the IT assets of IDC.
d) To test and validate the policies deployed.