AANVAL INDUSTRY FOCUS SOLUTIONS BRIEF. Aanval for Financial Services

Challenge for IT in Today s Financial Institutions The financial services industry today is in a difficult position faced with many business and security challenges as more transactions occur via online channels in the global market. The financial firm's rapid integration and increasing reliance on the interconnected network systems as well as the Internet in order to expedite financial transactions, improve service delivery, and accelerate efficiency has provided the industry more economic prosperity, but at the same time elevated the industry's susceptibility to cyber attacks. The tremendous sums of money being processed and managed by financial service firms as well as the vast quantities of confidential customer data stored in databases and servers makes financial institutions an attractive target to profit-minded cyber criminals and organized cyber-crime groups servicing the needs of the black market for stolen and compromised data. Although financial institutions in general have historically been more effective in safeguarding their customer's data than most industries due to the heavy regulatory requirements and industry standards with which the sector must meet and comply, recent statistics report that the number of malicious cyber attack traffic against banks and financial services firms have skyrocketed over the past year. Cyber crime has become the second most frequent type of economic crime being experienced by financial services companies, after asset misappropriation according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. 5 Security Focus Points 1. Financial companies are behind in establishing comprehensive security protective measures to protect their business and customer databases, creating an ever widening and disastrous gap between security protection and security threats. 2. Smaller banks and credit unions are plagued with limited budget and resource constraints, hindering crucial investments on effective IT security solutions to protect network systems and sensitive information. 3. The financial firm s increasing reliance on the interconnected network systems. The Internet paved the way to economic prosperity, but at the same time elevated the industry's vulnerability to cyber attacks. 4. The financial services industry is a primary target for malware-enabled cyber attacks because financial institutions operate software that tracks ownership of monetary assets. 5. Situational Awareness is needed to increase visibility among all networks, identify and investigate anomalous behaviors, and mitigate security risks.

Why Leading Financial Institutions Choose Aanval Tactical FLEX, Inc. understands that financial firms need a comprehensive, scalable, and proven real-time threat management solution that gives financial companies of all sizes and IT security professionals the technology power and operational efficiency to accelerate the accurate detection of security threats. Aanval provides around-the-clock monitoring of all inbound and out-bound network traffic, including both user and database access activities, and the effective detection and prevention of malware exploits. In addition, Aanval also delivers true situational awareness, multiple source event collection, correlation and archiving, and falsepositive reducing event validation that further delivers advanced event analyses, making it simpler to investigate and prevent anomalous behaviors. What Unique Security Challenges and Goals Can Aanval Help Accomplish? 1. Proactively monitor and respond to all security breaches including malware and botnet exploits, which can help prevent actualized data breaches as well as reduce remediation expenses. 2. Deliver a market-leading network security solution that will deliver a significant return on investments and cost savings, while improving risk management practices and meeting regulatory requirements. 3. Maximize operational efficiency and lower security overhead costs by automating the timeconsuming task of monitoring and managing both network and user activities and delivering crucial security alerts and reports. 4. Obtain real-time situational awareness in order to quickly and accurately summarize network event information and provide IT departments with the resources they need to identify actual risks and make sound decisions during critical moments. 5. Effectively deliver crucial scalability to accommodate additional network growth, and to also manage, archive, and store more than 1 billion events. 6. Improve network security posture across all networks including WLAN network devices, thereby protecting all critical assets and online channels. Aanval Plays a Critical Role in Securing Many Financial Services Networks Tactical FLEX, Inc. is a trusted security vendor, with its products and services at the core of both domestic and foreign financial service companies across the globe. Compass Bank Countrywide Financial Hancock Bank MGIC Landmark Bank Security Savings Bank Peoples Bank GiroBank Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank U.S. Federal Reserve Bank Glacier Bancorp. Libro Financial Group Aanval is the industry s most comprehensive Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) console on the market. Aanval supports both Snort and Suricata, as well as virtually any syslog data source and is designed specifically to scale from small single-sensor installations to global enterprise deployments. Government security and defense organizations from more than a half dozen countries, educational institutions from around the world, global financial organizations as well as space exploration and military weapons manufacturers rely upon Aanval as part of their security infrastructure. Aanval s primary function is to correlate data from multiple sources, bring together billions of events, and present users with a holistic view of false-positive free, network security situational awareness.

Given Today s Treacherous Cyber Battlefield, IT Security Managers Can t Afford to Be Blindsided. Need real-time security intelligence? Think Aanval SAS. Your security intelligence solution. The financial services industry is a key target for cyber criminals with more attacks being made against this sector than compared to other industries. Cyber attacks against financial firms and their customers have become big business with lucrative returns on investment. IT security professionals need to assess and review their current security technology tools with an eye toward the evolving security threat environment. Knowing exactly what is going on inside the network is more important than ever. Financial Services on the frontline of data protection and information security are responding by investing in Aanval SAS because it provides security intelligence and offensive tools that help shore up defenses and turn data into actionable and comprehensive insights to reduce risk. How does Aanval SAS differ from other intrusion detection systems, Snort or Suricata front-end GUIs, and SIEM products? 1. Aanval SAS (Situational Awareness System) expands the scope of analysis to identify and prioritize security risks in real-time before attackers find them, and to detect and resolve threats faster through network visibility. 2. Aanval SAS s new Rogue Host Detection, Offensive Reconnaissance, and Network Host Scanner modules help defenders take the offensive on thwarting cyber attacks. 3. Aanval SAS scales to far greater volumes of data without the significant storage costs. Tactical FLEX, Inc. also understands that the concept of security intelligence requires gaining visibility of all the data across your security infrastructure. Our Aanval SAS program provides an annual unlimited sensor-capacity license, telephone and remote support, and maintenance, an integral component of a complete IT risk management program, providing patches, bug fixes, minor and major upgrades. We invite you to learn more about our essential Aanval SAS program tailored to meet your organization s security needs. Aanval SAS An Unparalleled End-to-End SIEM-Based Snort and Suricata IDS Solution.

Why Financial Firms Face Greater Risks: Safety Lies in Monitoring and Mitigating Risks. U.S., European, and Latin American financial systems are under massive financial attacks that have digitally siphoned some $2.5 billion from thousands of accounts from various financial institutions. Malware and other online attacks will be responsible for an estimated $210 million in losses through corporate account takeovers in North America. It has been estimated that there will be 87 million new strains of malware released per year by the end of 2015. According to Ponemon Institute s Data Breach Report, the average cost to financial institutions per compromised record was $249 per record. Reputation damage is the biggest fear for financial firms as the costs of an actualized security incident can be very steep and damaging to both the financial companies and customers. 72% of business owners and executives hold the financial institution primarily accountable for ensuring online security and only 43% believe that their financial institutions takes appropriate action to limit risky transactions. 45% of IT security professionals have reported that their financial firm suffered fraud in the last 12 months, a much higher figure than the 30% reported by other industries. 36% of IT security professionals believe that they would be unable to see or stop attackers who access their network. 60% of IT organizations consider SIEM a key solution for a real-time view of network events, applications, and databases. Getting Started with Aanval. Free Download. Sweet. Let us help turn your data into actionable and comprehensive insights. We invite you to testdrive Aanval. Download Aanval for free at www.aanval.com/download. Aanval is available for download as a free Community edition and an unlimited sensor-capacity, commercially purchased and supported Snort, Suricata, and syslog license. An entire rage of product manuals, documentations, information security articles, and how-tos are also available by visiting the Aanval Wiki at http://wiki.aanval.com/. Regardless of your budget or event capacity requirements, Aanval is the answer to your intrusion detection needs. Fully integrated with Snort, Suricata, and syslog-sourced data, Aanval is the only interface/gui on the market in its class. Interested in Our Aanval SAS TM Program? For questions or inquiries about Aanval SAS, please contact our Customer Relationship Department at 800.921.2584 or email sales.group@aanval.com. Screenshots and details of Aanval SAS are available at www.aanval.com

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