Radware

The Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union (OCTFCU) offers retail banking services online, at ATMs and in 24 branches spread across the southern-California county. With concurrent sessions as high as 6,000 users per day with $150,000 changing hands every hour, the credit union’s online portal had to be fast, secure, reliable and available around the clock. Simple load balancing between its Web servers became inadequate to this task; seamless failover was needed. The credit union’s server farm had needed load balancers for its backend servers and initially, it had used Cisco’s Local Director and Content Services Switches. That went some way toward keeping applications responsive, but when its banking services went online to the public, the credit union needed something far more reliable: It needed to be able to detect a server’s imminent failure and divert traffic to another server while the faulty server was taken out of the farm for scrutiny. All this had to be done without interruption to its online service, and without customers feeling any “glitch.”

The financial services company was facing an increased rate of cyberattacks and required a new on-premise DDoS mitigation platform at its primary data centers in addition to protection from encrypted network attacks to protect web applications. In recent years, financial services has become one of the industries most targeted by cyberattacks. In addition to facing an array of attack vectors and threats, including hacktivist-backed campaigns and ransom-motivated assaults, it is also overcoming a hodgepodge of various network and application security challenges, including migration to the cloud, application exploits and encrypted traffic management. The bank required a new on-premise DDoS mitigation platform at its primary data centers that could protect them from DDoS attacks without negatively impacting legitimate traffic. In addition, with the percentage of encrypted network traffic increasing, the bank required a solution that could protect their web applications from encrypted floods.

As a provider of data center managed services and technology solutions, Xand’s customers require secure, high performance, highly-available infrastructures for its mission-critical environments. Since, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can inflict costly and destructive downtime on hosted applications and resources, Xand needed a solution to protect its customers cloud systems and comprehensively guard against user data breaches.