Network and Security Testing for Financial Services

A prominent global financial services firm recognized as a leader in investment banking and financial services for consumers, small businesses, commercial banking, financial transactions processing, and asset management, operates in over 60 countries with a workforce of nearly 300,000 employees. This organization invests heavily in technology, with a particular focus on utilizing AI and automation to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience. The company’s goal is to streamline processes for brokers, bankers, traders, money managers, and back-office operational teams while maintaining stringent regulatory compliance deadlines and security standards.

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Leading Financial Services Organization Selects Spirent for Test Lab Automation and Modernization to deliver automated cross-lab integration for greater agility, regulatory compliance, and accelerated provision of new digital services to customers

Amplify. Accelerate. Advance your lab & test automation to gain a competitive edge. In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, enterprise organizations are adopting disruptive technologies like software-defined networks (SDN), SD-WAN, Zero Trust (ZT), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), and private 5G to stay ahead. But these advancements come with surging complexity, skyrocketing costs, and mounting regulatory pressures. Is your enterprise ready to keep up? Early adopters, such as leading financial institutions, have already embraced __lab and test automation solutions__, transforming their testing practices to cut costs, improve productivity, and accelerate time to market. These forward-thinking investments give them a significant competitive edge, enabling faster service delivery and providing a roadmap for other enterprises to emulate.

Financial enterprises are pushed to test more complex systems, faster than ever, while facing multiple regulatory compliance requirements that must be fulfilled multiple times per year. For many, their current state of testing simply can’t keep up, where multiple labs/environments are segregated by technology and/or vendor. This includes siloed labs/environments that reside both on customer premises and vendor facilities. Compounding the challenge, typical lab setup time can be weeks, requiring multiple lab techs.

Overview of Spirent’s network and security test solutions for Enterprise IT teams.

Financial institutions rely on their digital infrastructure for conducting financial transactions and providing services to their customers; it's important to ensure their networks are secure, reliable, and perform as planned to their specific needs.

SecurityLabs experts support in-house testing and offer seasoned expertise for third party security testing, analysis, and compliance. Deliverables include a code review service and source code analysis, as well as a complete range of security services with in-house vulnerability scanning, penetration testing (pentesting) and robust vulnerability research. Read this case study to learn about customer experiences and use cases providing high-level insights of SecurityLabs engagements across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, automotive, hospitality, government, and more.