Financial services

VTB24 chooses DeviceLock

22 May 2008

VTB24, one of Russia’s largest retail banks, has chosen DeviceLock to ensure end-point security.

The bank has deployed DeviceLock 6.3 across its network to protect servers and desktop computers across its entire IT infrastructure, a distributed heterogeneous system including Windows and other operating systems.

One of Russia’s largest and fastest-growing banks, VTB24 aims to open more than 500 branches by the end of 2008, with operations in all Russian cities. Over the past few years, it has been steadily improving customer service, privacy protection and reliability, in order to attract and retain market share among Russia’s growing class of affluent middle class banking customers.

“With the proliferation of high-capacity removable storage devices available today, there is a much greater threat of information leaks from the bank’s IT system, as well as infiltration by destructive malware elements,” said Anatoly Bragin, chief of VTB24’s Information Security department. “DeviceLock is the software product that can most effectively help us to fight such threats. It has been on the market for almost a decade, building a rich feature set that has been field proven by other financial service customers around the world. We used a previous version of DeviceLock and found it a highly functional and reliable product. It provides flexible control over a computer’s local ports and devices, thus addressing one of our most significant information security problems.”

DeviceLock 6.3 features comprehensive central management natively integrated with Microsoft Active Directory and Windows support, from NT to Vista. Users can control, log, shadow-copy and audit end-user access to any type of computer’s ports and peripheral devices. The product includes presence detection and access control to local, network and virtual printers as well as Windows Mobile and Palm-based personal mobile devices.

“Installing DeviceLock was simple, and did not impact the bank’s existing information security policy,” added Bragin. “Once deployed, it enabled strict enforcement of device-related policy and easy audit of the rules defined in the policy. It has optimised our device management processes.”