Radware Case Studies Third-Largest European Bank Partners with Radware to Solve Encrypted Traffic-Processing Woes

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Third-Largest European Bank Partners with Radware to Solve Encrypted Traffic-Processing Woes

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The financial institution, being the third-largest bank in Europe, was facing a significant increase in encrypted traffic. This surge was slowing down the bank's network infrastructure and creating application latency. The bank's existing Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) lacked the capacity to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt large volumes of traffic. Moreover, the use of WAFs for encrypted traffic inspection often resulted in increased latency, negatively impacting application performance. The bank needed a solution that could handle high volumes of inbound encrypted traffic, work with global ciphers, adapt to new encryption technology, and have enough processing power to accept traffic, decrypt it, inspect it, and then re-encrypt it leveraging a low-level cypher. Read More
About Customer	The customer is the third-largest bank in Europe with over 16,500 offices and 250,000 employees. The bank has a presence in over 12 countries and serves more than 86 million retail clients and two million corporate clients. The bank is a long-time customer of Radware and relies on Alteon for its application delivery needs. The bank has seen a dramatic increase in the level of encrypted traffic, with ninety percent of its inbound network traffic now encrypted. This has resulted in an exponential increase in network traffic processing loads due to stronger encryption ciphers. Read More
Solution	The bank evaluated several vendors that provide SSL offload solutions, including F5 Networks and Citrix. However, Radware's Alteon application delivery controller (ADC) solution was selected as the best fit. Alteon is a next-generation ADC that provides best-of-breed application delivery capabilities and SSL performance that supports all encryption protocols. During test simulations that used actual network traffic loads, Alteon surpassed the competition in performance, including connections per second and throughput levels. The final solution was the implementation of eight Alteon ADCs in three data centers, with a fourth data center serving as a failover center. The Alteons were implemented in front of the bank's WAF to offload encrypted traffic and ensure accurate and timely processing. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The financial institution, being the third-largest bank in Europe, was facing a significant increase in encrypted traffic. This surge was slowing down the bank's network infrastructure and creating application latency. The bank's existing Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) lacked the capacity to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt large volumes of traffic. Moreover, the use of WAFs for encrypted traffic inspection often resulted in increased latency, negatively impacting application performance. The bank needed a solution that could handle high volumes of inbound encrypted traffic, work with global ciphers, adapt to new encryption technology, and have enough processing power to accept traffic, decrypt it, inspect it, and then re-encrypt it leveraging a low-level cypher.

About Customer

The customer is the third-largest bank in Europe with over 16,500 offices and 250,000 employees. The bank has a presence in over 12 countries and serves more than 86 million retail clients and two million corporate clients. The bank is a long-time customer of Radware and relies on Alteon for its application delivery needs. The bank has seen a dramatic increase in the level of encrypted traffic, with ninety percent of its inbound network traffic now encrypted. This has resulted in an exponential increase in network traffic processing loads due to stronger encryption ciphers.

Solution

The bank evaluated several vendors that provide SSL offload solutions, including F5 Networks and Citrix. However, Radware's Alteon application delivery controller (ADC) solution was selected as the best fit. Alteon is a next-generation ADC that provides best-of-breed application delivery capabilities and SSL performance that supports all encryption protocols. During test simulations that used actual network traffic loads, Alteon surpassed the competition in performance, including connections per second and throughput levels. The final solution was the implementation of eight Alteon ADCs in three data centers, with a fourth data center serving as a failover center. The Alteons were implemented in front of the bank's WAF to offload encrypted traffic and ensure accurate and timely processing.

Impact #1	The implementation of Radware Alteon has allowed the financial services company to improve the quality of experience for customers and application performance.
Impact #2	Alteon is able to process inbound encrypted traffic using diverse encryption algorithms without creating application latency.
Impact #3	The bank is confident that it has implemented an ADC solution that will support new encryption protocols and technologies as they become available.

Impact #1

The implementation of Radware Alteon has allowed the financial services company to improve the quality of experience for customers and application performance.

Impact #2

Alteon is able to process inbound encrypted traffic using diverse encryption algorithms without creating application latency.

Impact #3

The bank is confident that it has implemented an ADC solution that will support new encryption protocols and technologies as they become available.

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Third-Largest European Bank Partners with Radware to Solve Encrypted Traffic-Processing Woes

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