Mahesh Bank selects Fortinet to secure its Networks
Fortinet has announced that The A.P. Mahesh Cooperative Urban Bank popularly known as Mahesh Bank has deployed its FortiGate network security platform and FortiAnalyzer centralized reporting appliances to secure its data center and network of 39 branches.
Mahesh Bank was the first cooperative urban bank in Andhra Pradesh to introduce computerization at all its branches and today remains one of the few cooperative banks that have automated its operations. It was also the first cooperative bank to be accorded Scheduled Status by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Today, Mahesh Bank has presence in three states across India, with 39 branches nationwide, and a turnover of over Rs.2,200 crore for its financial year ending March 31, 2014.
Mahesh Bank was aggressively adding services to its portfolio and needed an edge security solution at its branches to protect its growing data and applications. To comply with the RBI mandates, the Bank needed to deploy a resilient security architecture to protect its network and implement centralized control over its branches' Internet and application usage.
“The Mahesh Bank implementation highlights that with the right architecture and solutions, smaller cooperative banks – not just big banks – can benefit from advanced security technologies," said Rajesh Maurya, Fortinet's Country Manager for India & SAARC. “Financial services are a vital vertical for Fortinet and we are committed to investing in the skills of our staff and partners, as well as the performance of our appliances, to be up to the requirements of this demanding sector."
The two FortiGate-300C appliances implemented at Mahesh Bank's datacenter have a virtualized framework with different security policies for Internet and Intranet users. The edge FortiGate solutions work together with these appliances to define common policies for users to access applications by enabling a broad range of security features including antivirus, antispam, Web filtering, VPN, intrusion prevention and application control. A FortiAnalyzer-200D centralized reporting appliance provides visibility to IT administrators by analyzing the network and reporting anomalies.
Mahesh Bank's 39 branches have each deployed a FortiGate-40C appliance to extend edge security, providing secure network access via VPN. They also serve as routers to connect the branches to the Internet via MPLS. Using a centralized network security policy, the head office now has complete control of the Internet and application usage as well as transactions conducted at every branch.
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