M86 Security Industry Solutions for Financial Services

Overview:

Financial service companies must maintain buttoned up, secure images. Investors, shareholders, depositors and regulators keep close watch on those who manage the world's wealth. Breaches of privacy and regulatory protocols pose significant risk to a firm's reputation and customer confidence

Because of this, the financial services sector must ensure the same level of compliance in the area of electronic communications as it does in other types of communications and record keeping.

To facilitate this, M86 Security provides easy-to-use, powerful, integrated Web and email security management solutions that:

• Enforce regulatory, legal and policy compliance
• Secure data and protect the reputation associated with securing that data
• Manage risk proactively

Summary Features for Web and Email Security Products:

• Filters Web and email content on local and remote connections, including URLs and/or IP addresses, file types (e.g. MP3, MPEG, .zip), HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Newsgroups (NNTP), and TCP Ports, spam, Inappropriate content, phishing, email viruses, malicious code, virus hoaxes, chain letters
• Controls instant messaging and peer-to-peer applications (streaming media, remote access, online gaming, proxies)
• Prevents data leakage via Web or email
• Provides comprehensive portable media and portable storage control, including total visibility of portable device connections and file transfers
• Allows real-time monitoring of Web activity and bandwidth usage
• Centralized administration and reporting
• Locks out user access when policy violation thresholds are exceeded
• Zero day protection from anonymous proxies
• Directory-based Authentication (Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory, Apple OpenDirectory, LDAP)
• Manages attachment send/receive permissions by file size and type
• Secure data transmission via encrypted email
• Detects key words and phrases in email, using lexical analysis
• Provides image analysis to detect inappropriate or sensitive content
• Stops relay attempts, denial of service attacks, directory harvesting attacks, and other anomalous email activity
• Provides detailed activity and security status reports

M86 Security Financial Services Benefits:

• Safer work environment
• Enforcement of AUP
• Mitigation of legal liabilities and/or damage to institution's reputation
• Helps keep employees on task, preserves network performance, and allows IT departments to focus on mission critical priorities
• Protects the network and confidential information
• Meets or exceeds corporate, industry, local and federal regulatory compliance (e.g., SOX, GLBA - United States)
• Minimized personal exposure of financial service officers
• Mitigation of employee transaction errors
• Fast and measurable return on investment (ROI)
• Low total cost of ownership (TCO)