Radware Case Studies Religare Delivers its Clientele Fast, Reliable and Secure Online Trading Services with Radware’s Integrated Application Front-End and Security Solutions

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Religare Delivers its Clientele Fast, Reliable and Secure Online Trading Services with Radware’s Integrated Application Front-End and Security Solutions

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Cybersecurity & Privacy - Intrusion Detection Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Cybersecurity Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Religare Securities Limited (RSL), a leading Equity Brokerage Firm in India, was facing challenges in providing reliable and secure online trading services to its customers. The company was dealing with network performance and availability issues, as well as security breaches. The main concern was to implement a solution that would not cause user interference and could assure cost-effective scalability to support future business growth. The company has thousands of customers utilizing its services for online trading purposes at any point in time. Therefore, Religare was concerned not only with providing complete availability and accelerated performance for such high volume traffic but also assuring the traffic is appropriately protected from worms, viruses and DoS/DDoS attacks such as SYN floods while maintaining its ability to assure timely execution and response time for its numerous, business critical applications. Read More
About Customer	Religare Securities Limited (RSL) is the leading Equity Brokerage Firm in India. The company’s major lines of business are Equity Brokerage and Depository Participant Services. The company is a vital part of the Religare Enterprises Limited Group, which through the variety of its companies, provides integrated financial solutions to its Corporate, Retails and Wealth Management clients. It is a member of the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange of India; a Depository Participant with National Securities Depository Limited and Central Depository Services Limited; and an SEBI approved Portfolio Manager. The growing list of financial institutions with which RSL is associated with is a reflection of the high level of services maintained by the company. The company has a growing network of more than 300 branches and more than 580 business partners spread across more than 300 cities/towns in India and a fully operational international office located in London. Read More
Solution	Religare deployed Radware’s AFE solution for its enhanced load balancing, traffic redirection, SSL offloading and compression capabilities. It also deployed Radware’s DefensePro for its intrusion prevention & DoS protection to secure the network from the core to the perimeter, stopping attacks before they reach applications and minimizing business risk. Radware’s APSolute product suite presented Religare with the optimal solution for its various needs, as it provides one integrated offering to assure network availability, performance and security. With the combined, advanced technologies of Radware’s AppDirector and AppXcel, which make up Radware’s Application Front End (AFE) Solution, Religare benefits from enhanced load balancing and traffic re-direction solution which transparently bypasses failures, delivers complete transaction path availability, optimizes server farm operation, and performs SSL offloading and compression. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Intrusion Detection

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Religare Securities Limited (RSL), a leading Equity Brokerage Firm in India, was facing challenges in providing reliable and secure online trading services to its customers. The company was dealing with network performance and availability issues, as well as security breaches. The main concern was to implement a solution that would not cause user interference and could assure cost-effective scalability to support future business growth. The company has thousands of customers utilizing its services for online trading purposes at any point in time. Therefore, Religare was concerned not only with providing complete availability and accelerated performance for such high volume traffic but also assuring the traffic is appropriately protected from worms, viruses and DoS/DDoS attacks such as SYN floods while maintaining its ability to assure timely execution and response time for its numerous, business critical applications.

About Customer

Religare Securities Limited (RSL) is the leading Equity Brokerage Firm in India. The company’s major lines of business are Equity Brokerage and Depository Participant Services. The company is a vital part of the Religare Enterprises Limited Group, which through the variety of its companies, provides integrated financial solutions to its Corporate, Retails and Wealth Management clients. It is a member of the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange of India; a Depository Participant with National Securities Depository Limited and Central Depository Services Limited; and an SEBI approved Portfolio Manager. The growing list of financial institutions with which RSL is associated with is a reflection of the high level of services maintained by the company. The company has a growing network of more than 300 branches and more than 580 business partners spread across more than 300 cities/towns in India and a fully operational international office located in London.

Solution

Religare deployed Radware’s AFE solution for its enhanced load balancing, traffic redirection, SSL offloading and compression capabilities. It also deployed Radware’s DefensePro for its intrusion prevention & DoS protection to secure the network from the core to the perimeter, stopping attacks before they reach applications and minimizing business risk. Radware’s APSolute product suite presented Religare with the optimal solution for its various needs, as it provides one integrated offering to assure network availability, performance and security. With the combined, advanced technologies of Radware’s AppDirector and AppXcel, which make up Radware’s Application Front End (AFE) Solution, Religare benefits from enhanced load balancing and traffic re-direction solution which transparently bypasses failures, delivers complete transaction path availability, optimizes server farm operation, and performs SSL offloading and compression.

Impact #1	Religare’s “business-smart” network can now align its IT behavior with business objectives by assuring maximized utilization of server infrastructure resources, seamless consolidation, high scalability and advanced security intelligence to insulate applications against attacks in real time.
Impact #2	Religare also plans to utilize AFE’S global redirection features to assure enhanced traffic redirection abilities between its multiple branches and data centers.
Impact #3	At any point in time, online traders using Religare’s applications, experience high availability, fast response time and accelerated application performance, resulting in a higher degree of customer satisfaction.

Impact #1

Religare’s “business-smart” network can now align its IT behavior with business objectives by assuring maximized utilization of server infrastructure resources, seamless consolidation, high scalability and advanced security intelligence to insulate applications against attacks in real time.

Impact #2

Religare also plans to utilize AFE’S global redirection features to assure enhanced traffic redirection abilities between its multiple branches and data centers.

Impact #3

At any point in time, online traders using Religare’s applications, experience high availability, fast response time and accelerated application performance, resulting in a higher degree of customer satisfaction.

Benefit #1	DefensePro IPS and DoS/DDoS protections save a total of up to 30% of Religare’s Internet bandwidth which is consumed by malicious activities.

Benefit #1

DefensePro IPS and DoS/DDoS protections save a total of up to 30% of Religare’s Internet bandwidth which is consumed by malicious activities.

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Religare Delivers its Clientele Fast, Reliable and Secure Online Trading Services with Radware’s Integrated Application Front-End and Security Solutions

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