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The Conservation & Liquidation Office (CLO) Keeps Private Data Secure with Radware’s DefensePro

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

Radware’s DefensePro
Radware’s APSolute Insite management tool

Tech Stack

Network Security
Intrusion Prevention System
Firewall

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Customer Satisfaction

Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Cybersecurity & Privacy - Intrusion Detection

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

Cybersecurity Services

About The Customer

The Conservation & Liquidation Office (CLO) is a subsidiary of the California Department of Insurance and was created by the Insurance Commissioner to assist him in fulfilling his duties as a court-appointed Conservator and Liquidator. The CLO oversees departments that operate and liquidate insurance companies and manages the affairs of conservatorship and receivership for the benefit and protection of policyholders. As of November 2006, the CLO liquidated assets in twenty-six companies, managing over one billion dollars in assets. Since 2000, the CLO has closed fifty-one companies or “estates” that are in conservation or liquidation. During conservation of an insurance company, the CLO takes over the entire operations of that company in order to conserve assets for the benefit of policyholders, creditors, and other persons interested in the assets of the company.

The Challenge

The Conservation & Liquidation Office (CLO), a subsidiary of the California Department of Insurance, is tasked with the conservation of insurance companies and the management of their affairs for the benefit and protection of policyholders. This involves taking over the entire operations of the company, including all policies, accounts, claims, and personal information of insured individuals. This information is subject to increased risk during the takeover procedure when the CLO establishes connectivity with the insurer’s network and IT infrastructure. The CLO previously relied on traditional firewall protection methods to secure its network and IT infrastructure. However, these methods provided insufficient protection to safeguard the crucial data and information the CLO was managing. The CLO needed a solution that would stop any attack from any entity, at headquarters as well as the regional insurance companies.

The Solution

After rigorous testing, evaluation, and benchmarking, the CLO chose Radware’s advanced application security solution – DefensePro. DefensePro, running on Radware’s high-performance security switch, is able to deliver maximum throughput and advanced security intelligence to isolate, block and prevent attacks in real-time from headquarters to the regional insurance companies that the CLO has to manage. Protecting against worms, viruses, spyware, pre-attack probes, and other threats, this easy-to-use, scalable solution proactively prevents both network- and application-level attacks while ensuring high performance for legitimate application traffic, even when under attack. DefensePro intercepts thousands of malicious signatures, hidden worms, and viruses, blocking application attacks at multi-gigabit speeds. By identifying and mitigating protocol and traffic anomalies in real-time, DefensePro prevents DoS/DDoS and SYN floods, safeguarding against all illicit traffic patterns and hacking.

Operational Impact

The CLO can perform conservation of insurance companies with the highest level of security in local and remote environments, while fully protecting the integrity of consumer confidential information.
The CLO’s IT infrastructure – email servers, Web servers and SQL servers – are fully secure and protected. The reliance of spyware has been mitigated as new infections are immediately blocked or infected network entities are pinpointed and isolated.
DefensePro’s automated, self-learning technology automatically adjusts to evolving threats, blocking them without requiring any human intervention.