Kaspersky Lab protected IT infrastructure of SMP Bank

April 02, 2015. Workstations, servers and virtual IT infrastructure of SMP Bank are equipped with modern technologies for reflection of any Internet threats according to the results of integration of Kaspersky Security for virtual environments and also prolongation of licenses^[1] of Kaspersky Security for business within a new stage of cooperation.

The SMP Bank conducts the activity since 2001 and today has the wide branch network operating in more than 20 regions of the Russian Federation. The dispersion of the remote offices interacting with head using corporate network requires additional flexibility in a question of protection IT infrastructure. The increased risks of information security are caused also by specifics of the banking sector which even more often draws recently attention of malefactors and becomes the purpose of the smart targeted attacks.

"The size of network of offices defines two main requirements to the selected protective solution. On the one hand, the highest level of protection against the threats connected with our activity, and with another — the convenient centralized security management mechanism in each segment of our IT infrastructure is necessary for us — Pavel Golovlev, the head of department of information technology security of SMP Bank tells. — We know from the experience that the solution Kaspersky Security for business successfully combines these qualities, and were pleasantly surprised that integration of a product, new to us, for protection of virtual environments did not change this balance. Security management of new perimeter is still exercised via the usual console — simply and effectively".

"Offering a flexible set of protective products, we aim not only to win arrangement of the client at the first stages of cooperation, but also to support him further. The fact that the SMP Bank with expansion and development of the corporate network still continues to trust the security to "Kaspersky Lab' is the best assessment of our solutions, their qualities, scaling options and ease of use" — Sergey Zemkov, the managing director of Kaspersky Lab in Russia, the countries of Transcaucasia and Central Asia noted.

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