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ICB Bank Seeks to Improve Operations With Cisco's Service-Oriented Network Architecture
Bank Also Deploys Cisco Network Admission Control Solution to Enhance Security
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
HANOI, VIETNAM--(Marketwire - October 23, 2007) - ICB Bank, one of the leading commercial
banks in Vietnam, is establishing another milestone as an early adopter of
information and communications technology (ICT) in the country. With the
implementation managed by HPT Technology, a Cisco-certified premier
reseller, the bank is deploying the Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO )
Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) to help it unify network-based
services such as security, mobility and location with the virtualization of
ICT resources. ICB Bank has also implemented the Cisco Network Admission
Control (NAC) solution, which enables the bank to enforce security policies
on all endpoint devices, whether managed or unmanaged, as they enter the
network.
The bank sees ICT as a necessary element of modern business and is
committed to taking advantage of the latest technologies to differentiate
itself not just in Vietnam but, in the future, in the regional and
international markets.
"As a leading bank in Vietnam, ICB must conduct highly reliable and highly
secure financial transactions. The deployment of advanced technologies such
as Cisco SONA and NAC will help to improve the efficiency and security of
our systems and provide a platform for the future expansion of our
operations outside of Vietnam," said Pham Tuan Anh, vice general director
of ICB.
HPT Technology has been working with ICB Bank since 2003 when they were
awarded the contract for a pilot IT security project. HPT has since
committed considerable resources toward better understanding ICB's current
and future requirements. "Through many man hours of planning and deployment
and in close co-operation with Cisco and ICB, we were able to ensure that
the solutions from Cisco were implemented smoothly, especially the Cisco
NAC solution," said Dinh Ha Duy Linh, managing director of HPT Technology.
"Cisco's highly secure networking solutions have been deployed by leading
financial institutions around the world. We are glad to be able to bring
the benefits of these solutions to the banks in Vietnam, providing them
with a networking and communications infrastructure that is on par with
those of the leading companies in the global financial system," said James
Chia, general director of Cisco Vietnam.
With Cisco SONA, ICB Bank is able to use the network as an integrated
environment over which distributed applications and services can be
centrally managed. This creates efficiency in the use of network assets and
provides a feature-rich foundation. By integrating devices, applications
and services that have been designed to work together, SONA brings greater
intelligence to the network. The resulting infrastructure is dynamic,
application- and service-aware, and capable of taking a more active role in
optimizing communications.
This greater intelligence in the network is backed up by Cisco's NAC
solution, which fundamentally changes how security is implemented because
it allows comprehensive security policies to be translated into rules that
are reliably enforced, resulting in proactive and pervasive security for an
organization. Cisco NAC accomplishes this by adopting a scalable
architecture with a central policy decision component, a distributed
security enforcement component at the network level, and extensive
integration with additional security products and technologies.
"Cisco NAC can be compared to the scanners at an airport that scan for
objects that present a security risk. This list of objects, like security
policies, can be revised and updated as needed. This will help limit the
impact of threats to the network and hence the entire ICT infrastructure,"
said Cisco's Chia.
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