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	Citizens Savings and Loan turns to Bitdefender to replace traditional security and improve performance

Citizens Savings and Loan turns to Bitdefender to replace traditional security and improve performance

Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Virtual Private Cloud
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Like many financial institutions, Citizens Savings and Loan uses sophisticated solutions to provide top financial products and services to its customers. The clientele have come to depend on this long-standing institution, and rely on the company to deliver the trust it has always been known for. In 2009, Citizens Savings and Loan adopted VMware’s virtualization platform as a way to save costs and consolidate services. Initially, the company implemented a traditional anti-virus solution from another security vendor and found the performance of their virtualized servers and VDI user environment was quickly eroding. Read More
About Customer	Organized in 1884, Citizens Savings and Loan is headquartered in Leavenworth, Kansas, serving approximately 10,000 customers throughout the state. With three offices in Kansas, Citizens Savings and Loan serves many military personnel and their families, along with many law enforcement and local factory workers. For more information, visit www.citizensfsb.com. Read More
Solution	After performing extensive research, Mr. Breaux found that Bitdefender’s underlying technology was well known for winning several independent and comparative AV tests. This led him to Security for Virtualized Environments. After contacting Bitdefender’s Enterprise team, a brief proof-of-concept was initiated. Within no time he quickly found that his VMware environment performance significantly improved and Security for Virtualized Environments by Bitdefender was stopping malware in its tracks. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Virtual Private Cloud

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Like many financial institutions, Citizens Savings and Loan uses sophisticated solutions to provide top financial products and services to its customers. The clientele have come to depend on this long-standing institution, and rely on the company to deliver the trust it has always been known for. In 2009, Citizens Savings and Loan adopted VMware’s virtualization platform as a way to save costs and consolidate services. Initially, the company implemented a traditional anti-virus solution from another security vendor and found the performance of their virtualized servers and VDI user environment was quickly eroding.

About Customer

Organized in 1884, Citizens Savings and Loan is headquartered in Leavenworth, Kansas, serving approximately 10,000 customers throughout the state. With three offices in Kansas, Citizens Savings and Loan serves many military personnel and their families, along with many law enforcement and local factory workers. For more information, visit www.citizensfsb.com.

Solution

After performing extensive research, Mr. Breaux found that Bitdefender’s underlying technology was well known for winning several independent and comparative AV tests. This led him to Security for Virtualized Environments. After contacting Bitdefender’s Enterprise team, a brief proof-of-concept was initiated. Within no time he quickly found that his VMware environment performance significantly improved and Security for Virtualized Environments by Bitdefender was stopping malware in its tracks.

Impact #1	Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE) by Bitdefender is effectively performing its intended function.
Impact #2	Citizens Savings and Loan is now able to provide top financial products and services to its internal and external customer base.
Impact #3	The company can now realize all the benefits of a VMware environment without the performance issues experienced with traditional anti-virus solutions.

Impact #1

Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE) by Bitdefender is effectively performing its intended function.

Impact #2

Citizens Savings and Loan is now able to provide top financial products and services to its internal and external customer base.

Impact #3

The company can now realize all the benefits of a VMware environment without the performance issues experienced with traditional anti-virus solutions.

Benefit #1	Serving approximately 10,000 customers throughout Kansas.

Benefit #1

Serving approximately 10,000 customers throughout Kansas.

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Citizens Savings and Loan turns to Bitdefender to replace traditional security and improve performance

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