Crossbeam Systems, the leader in Unified Threat Management (UTM) for the world's largest networks, today announced that Scottrade has deployed Crossbeam's X-80 UTM platform to deliver in-depth security across its internal network and protect all customers using its online trading systems.
As one of the nation's leading branch-supported online brokerage firms, Scottrade maintains more than $54 billion in customer assets and conducts an average of 138,000 trades per day on its three online trading platforms.
"It is critical that we protect every customer transaction delivered through our systems," said Grant Bourzikas, director of Information Security and Business Continuity at Scottrade. "But speed is also very important, as traders can't afford to be hindered by slow trade execution times. We selected Crossbeam because its UTM architecture provides the only enterprise-class security platform that meets both our security and performance requirements."
"Scottrade is a perfect example of how our UTM architecture is best applied in an enterprise," stated Peter George, president and CEO of Crossbeam Systems. "Our enterprise customers are not looking to add more appliances on the network. They are looking to intelligently manage security, future-proof their networks, and build a foundation for security that can grow with their businesses and adapt to evolving threats. Crossbeam allows the customer to define what security means to them, and then enables them to build a flexible architecture -- using the best-of-breed security applications of their choice -- without compromising on performance."
Crossbeam Systems X-Series equipment delivers flexible, highly scalable network security in perimeter, core and data center architectures. The X- Series enables companies like Scottrade to easily consolidate up to 20 security applications on one X-Series device, while benefiting from Crossbeam's unparalleled processing speeds, management and administration capabilities required by today's enterprise networks.
All of Crossbeam's UTM solutions provide best-of-breed protection of networks from the leading applications vendors such as Check Point, Enterasys, Imperva, IBM Internet Security Systems, Trend Micro and Websense.