Data encryption at the data link layer provides safe data exchange of Sviaz-Bank

The Sviaz-Bank integrated remote server platforms, having taken high-speed coders of network traffic of Senetas company as a basis, the press service of bank reported on February 12, 2013.

Background

"The coders Senetas, unlike analogs, allowed to avoid considerable overheads by transfer of traffic that gave us the chance to organize mirroring of data of the core banking system on the remote platform in real time imperceptibly both for users, and for the core banking system" — Sergey Kurochkin, the associate director of Department of security — the head of department of data protection of the Sviaz-Bank explained.

Details

In addition to actually data protection, hardware coders helped to provide compliance of a data exchange system to the law "About Personal Data" and standard of service station of BR IBBS. Permission of FSB of Russia to operation of coders and the conclusion of the Central bank of the Russian Federation concerning compliance to a bank information security standard was for this purpose got.

Allows reach the high performance and low overheads to hardware coders of Senetas company the unique cryptographic microprocessor improved by engineers of the company for 15 years. The Senetas microprocessor allows to cipher traffic of Ethernet, the Fibre Channel and SONET with a speed up to 100 Gbps (a delay to 8 microsec.) while it is required to software solutions in thousands times more of time for the same transactions.

"The coders Senetas allow the large financial, infrastructure and industrial companies to prevent worldwide with guarantee interception of confidential information in trunk communication channels, to organize the distributed protected networks, reserve platforms and highly available cloud platforms. The solutions Senetas effectively carry out these tasks, guaranteeing reliable data protection" — Gareth Jones, the CEO of Senetas Europe emphasized.