Absolut Bank has completed a project to implement the Russian Solar webProxy solution

2022: Moving to Solar webProxy

Absolut Bank completed project the replacement of the foreign web security gateway (SWG, short for the English Secure Web Gateway), making the transition to a the Russian solution. Solar webProxy 3 thousand workstations are connected to control web traffic using Solar webProxy as of November 2022, as well as. servers bank The solution provides secure access for employees to web resources with built-in categorization based on content traffic analysis. The implementation of the transition project took four months. This was announced on November 28, 2022 by the company. Rostelecom-Solar

When choosing a solution, Absolut Bank focused on such requirements as built-in antivirus scanning, categorization of web resources and the ability to integrate with the Information Leakage Protection System (DLP). During the selection of the web traffic control tool, several SWG solutions were piloted. One of the decisive factors in the choice of Solar webProxy was the RTK-Solar ecosystem approach.

RTK-Solar provides two-way integration of SWG and DLP systems. Solar webProxy sends files for analysis to Solar Dozor. If the security policy is triggered and the user is transferred to a special control group, Solar Dozor sends data to Solar webProxy - Solar webProxy automatically distributes the corresponding security policy to the user. This allows you to quickly respond to security events.

In addition to integration with the DLP solution, using the ICAP protocol, Solar webProxy can be integrated with security features such as sandbox and antivirus. The syslog protocol allows you to transfer logs from SWG to SIEM systems.

{{quote 'We chose Solar webProxy, because we need a product that meets the criteria for import substitution and at the same time is not inferior in functionality to foreign solutions, - said Ruslan Lozhkin, head of the information security service of Absolut Bank. - Integration of Solar webProxy with the Solar Dozor DLP system allows you to build end-to-end information security processes by synchronizing data in a single user file. }}

Since Solar webProxy is a Russian solution, its interface and support are in Russian, which was also noted among the advantages by Absolut Bank specialists. The product has a visual and intuitive interface - no additional training is required to work with it.

In the current conditions, the basic functionality of the proxy server is not enough to efficiently control traffic, especially in large companies. - said Galina Ryabova, director of the Dozor product center of RTK-Solar. - Modern realities require deep content analysis from the web security gateway, that is, not only blocking certain resources by URLs, but also checking traffic by keywords and the presence of certain files. At the same time, the SWG solution should support uninterrupted traffic processing of thousands of users and provide fast scalability.