RTK-Solar protects the web resources of Primorye Bank from cyber attacks

2022: Protecting Online Resources with Solar MSS

The RTK-Solar company announced on October 24, 2022, to ensure the protection of the online resources of Primorye Bank using the Web Application Firewall (WAF) service of the Solar MSS ecosystem. The service protects the bank's website and web applications, including the client's personal account, from  L7 level attacks (DDoS and attacks from the OWASP Top 10 list). At the same time, WAF has already proven its effectiveness: in the 3rd quarter of 2022, the service recorded more than 1.7 million information security events identified as attacks. All of them were reflected and did not affect the performance of online resources in any way.

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Since February 2022, RTK-Solar experts have noted a multiple increase in the number of cyber attacks on Russian companies. At the same time, most of the critical incidents fell on online resources: if in the 1 quarter of 2022, the share of web attacks was 77%, then in the 2nd it already exceeded 90%. At the time of connecting to the service, Primorye Bank was also under attack from hackers, so RTK-Solar experts quickly started banking sites under WAF, and the final setup was completed in 3 weeks.

The bank serves a significant part of the enterprises of the Far East and Eastern Siberia, representing almost everything. industries economies Therefore, in the context of the growth of cyber attacks, both mass and targeted, we needed to provide protection IT infrastructures and guarantee customers uninterrupted access to their personal accounts and online services, as well as safety personal and payment. data To quickly deploy the protection of web resources and prevent their degradation, it was decided to choose a service model, INFORMATION SECURITY said Laskovy Evgeny, Director of the Information Banking Technologies Department of Primorye Bank.

The WAF service is implemented as a failover cluster hosted cloudy in the "" platform. Rostelecom The configuration and operation of the solution is carried out by specialists from the center for countering cyber attacks. Solar JSOC Time reaction of the technical support service is not more than 30 minutes. The project was implemented as quickly as possible, including due to the presence of a test circuit of the system at the customer. remote banking service RTK-Solar specialists were able to quickly check all the rules and, security policies after which they connected the bank's existing web applications to the service.

Of course, the web has become the main target of hackers. For the financial sector, such attacks are fraught not only with defacement or inaccessibility of the site, but also with leakage of customer personal data, account information and direct theft of money. I am glad that in 2022 the general level of cyber protection in the financial industry has grown significantly and banks are responsible for the security of their infrastructure and the safety of payment and personal data. And the approach of AKB "Primorye" to information security proves this trend. In addition, the bank's own IT and cybersecurity service has high competencies, which, of course, accelerated and simplified the configuration and connection of the service, noted Konstantin Kamanin, Director of Product Portfolio Development at Solar MSS, RTK-Solar.