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Background

The client is an insurance company and is a large writer of both private passenger automobile and homeowners insurance in USA. It operates all across USA through the efforts of approximately 20,000 employees. The company also engages the services of independent contractors and independent agents to provide services to more than 15 million end users.

 
Business Challenges

The client wants to utilize the secure web based technologies and remote access to serve the clients better and to empower the field agency force. The requirements are:

Secure Web based transaction of personal information over Internet.
Corporate wide Authentication for the agents/clients.
Policy based Authorization for the agents/clients.
Central LDAP Directory.
Secure Telecommuting
Secure and Encrypted connectivity to remote offices and agents.
Secure file uploads via the numerous vendors to the client's web servers.
Real time monitoring of the resources for intrusion / hacking attempts.
Usage of strongest client and server based authentication for certain applications e.g. for content update on the Web servers.
 
Wipro's Solution

Wipro studied carefully the client requirements and suggested the best possible practices for authentication, authorization, and remote access, secure web presence and firewalls. This involved evaluating various products within the given cost constraints and based on the study, we suggested redundant network security architecture with no single point of failure.

Following are the highlights of the solutions implemented for the client.

Infrastructure:
Two Data centers with redundant DS3 links to Internet
Different DMZ for the administrative and backend access to the Web Servers


Technology:
Security deployment consisted of PIX firewalls, screening routers were used screening devices at boundary points.
Redundant Cisco Secure ACS Tacacs+ server for user authentication of the outbound Internet traffic by the PIX firewall
Network and Host based IDS served as Detective measures to monitor and respond on Internal Network. Implementation of SSL and use of Digital certificate's on Web Servers
Netegrity Siteminder for corporate Authentication / Authorization for the Web resources
Netscape LDAP for centralized directory and policy implementations. IPSec enabled VPN Access for all the telecommuters and agents.
 
Benefits
The client achieved the following benefits after the strategic project execution by Wipro team:
Access to IT resources from anywhere in the world.
Common directory for NT, Internet and Web authentication
Secure connectivity to remote offices.
Cost savings with the use of VPN rather than dedicated WAN links.
Secure and Available Telecommuting.
Highly available and secure services improve productivity.
 
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