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Jetco: Growing need for secure remote users

Joint Electronic Teller Services Limited (JETCO), established with five banks, namely, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, The Bank of East Asia Limited, Chekiang First Bank Limited, Shanghai Commercial Bank and Wing Lung Bank Limited, operate an inter-bank Automated Teller Machine (ATM) network in Hong Kong, Macau and China.

Challenges

Jetco found the need to securely and reliably connect to other companies growing month by month. This was leading to a strain on their internal technical staff due to the planning and design requirements, and also to a strain on their existing firewall gateway.

Business units were becoming increasingly impatient with the delays that were occurring in connecting to third parties and were unhappy with the increasing number of outages that were occurring due to changes and the load on their internal systems.

When Connet reviewed the operational and security requirements it was clear that F5 Firepass SSL VPN service could be of significant benefit.

By using SSL VPN it would be possible to leverage the highly available architecture and strict access and change control processes and procedures to manage their communications. Connet relocated the client's existing 3rd party network connections from their onsite firewall and redundant network paths to the client were installed and procedures for granting and revoking access to and from external parties developed.

Benefits

By taking advantage of the secure and managed infrastructure of the SSL VPN was able to rapidly deploy a solution that replaced their existing dated infrastructure and support arrangements.

As Connet takes advantage of the fact that many organisations communicate with the same 3rd parties we are able to cost effectively and securely share network infrastructure, allowing our clients to benefit from high-speed connections and reduce their overall network complexity. The client was able to focus their internal IT staff on their areas of core competency while adding the resources of Connet’s specialist 24x7 security management team.

The result has been a service that is viewed by the client as an asset because of its integrity, availability, and its ability to scale with business demand.