Investments and Finance Insurance company (VPN Projects)

Investitsii i Finansy Insurance Company Ltd is founded in 1992. Strategic objectives of the company are the capitalization growth, expansion of a range of the provided services and also development of a regional branch network and representations. Today the company contains 15 branches and 33 sales offices in 28 territorial subjects of the Russian Federation. Presence of the company in all federal districts and the subjects of the Russian Federation is in the long term planned.

"In DEPO Computers to me selected very sensible project manager, with it we reviewed the initial budget and significantly reduced it because selected some other the products more suitable and available. It is important that the company let know at once that it will share with me the knowledge. In any agreement you will not state, my project actually how exactly will go, and I precisely knew that all solutions will be ground under me in process, i.e. I will receive optimal in reality what with other partners it was not necessary to expect. Together we performed service migration in virtual environment, implemented means of protecting. It is convenient to me with DEPO Computers therefore our cooperation continues", - Moldavchuk Vsevolod, the Chief information officer of Investments and Finance insurance company commented.

Business of the company is inseparably linked with processing and storage of large volume of personal data both corporate clients, and individuals. For ensuring confidential information protection IT infrastructure of the company should conform to strict requirements of security.

The Investments and Finance insurance company plans increase in number of branches and expansion of the presence in all regions of Russia in the nearest future, but upgrade of IT infrastructure was necessary for effective support of growth of the company. At the same time the processing system of personal data should conform to requirements of a number of regulating and regulating documents, including provision of federal law FZ-152 "About personal data". Obligations of the companies working with personal information include ensuring appropriate level of protection during the processing and data transmission between branches.

For ensuring protection of connection between the central office and branches of the company the complex devices integrating the firewall, the VPN gateway anti-virus and an antispam system, means of web filtering, etc. were used.

On the first project stage specialists of DEPO Computers booked careful audit of infrastructure of the customer as a result of which weak spots were revealed, possibilities of increase in loading at expansion of the company and upgrade of the available subsystems are analyzed. The customer selected complete restructuring of IT infrastructure with creation of a failsafe farm of virtualization and transfer from the offered development options on it all business applications of the company.

In a work progress at a stage of upgrade the architecture of IT infrastructure was changed, a part of an obsolete equipment was replaced, and on the created hardware platform the virtualization farm was unrolled. Transfer of infrastructure in virtual environment allowed to optimize structure of services, to provide fault tolerance of services, to increase efficiency of use of resources and to increase system performance in general. Besides, the flexible scalable solution allows to increase easily at expansion of the state computing powers.

Access from regional branches to the central database which is stored on servers in the main office, is performed via the VPN gateway. Also for employees the accessibility on VPN channels from mobile devices and notebooks is configured that gives to insurance agents the chance safely to obtain necessary data irrespective of their location.

Stage of the project reduction of an information system of the company in compliance to requirements of FZ-152 "About personal data" was the purpose of the third. Information security specialists simulated potential threats and scenarios of behavior of malefactors, held a number of events for risk management. After accomplishment of these procedures necessary security policies were created and the set of the documents describing requirements to systems and regulating business processing and a personal data storage is created. Accomplishment of these works allowed to exclude the accessibility of strangers to confidential data and to completely prepare IT infrastructure of the company for check of Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media.

Upgrade of IT infrastructure of the company using means of virtualization allows to use more effectively the available hardware, without effort to scale a system at increase in number of offices in regions and at the same time to guarantee the highest level of confidential data protection of the clients.

Compliance of IT infrastructure of the company to requirements of FZ-152 "About personal data" allows to guarantee safety of confidential information and to provide tranquility of the clients. Use of technology of virtualization allows to protect investments into IT infrastructure and gives the chance quickly and without big additional investments to scale information environment of the company.