Financial Industry Solutions

Security will always be a top priority for financial services, and with each evolutionary step in the industry, security must overcome new threats. Like all information-based businesses, the financial service industry is confronting business-changing technology with wireless local-area networks that allow unstrung access to all critical information.

While in the midst of industry-wide change from deregulation, the financial services industry turned to the Internet to connect widening business opportunities from banking and insurance to securities and annuities. The Internet provided the infrastructure for information to flow and connect the markets with real-time data and confidential information. The financial service companies were forced to secure all corporate networks and Web applications to protect highly sensitive corporate and consumer account information.

The airborne threats of 802.11 WLANs create new security vulnerabilities for corporate networks and confidential information that the industry relies upon. Whether choosing to embrace 802.11 WLANs with enterprise deployments or prohibiting their use all together, financial service companies must monitor and protect their airwaves to ensure the integrity of their networks where enormous amounts of confidential financial data are at risk of intrusion and corruption. In response to these threats, FDIC examiners are adding WLAN security as part of their annual audit.

Motorola protects financial service companies in a variety of ways, including:

	Protecting brands, mitigating risk and helping create secure conveniences for all parties involved in financial transactions.
	Securing WLANs and corporate networks from intrusions by protecting against threats that jeopardize the flow of communication and risk the theft or corruption of confidential files.
	Enabling financial institutions to comply with various SEC issues as well as the Financial Modernization Act (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act)