Optimizing Branch Office Security and Productivity in the Financial Services Sector

This white paper examines the problems that financial services sector companies face when attempting to provide secure and efficient data access to branch offices. It also provides solutions based on the features and capabilities included with ISA Server 2006, Whale IAG 2007 and Windows Server 2003 R2. This paper specifically examines how to prevent security issues at branch offices from impacting main-office security, and how to reduce cost and operational inefficiencies inherent in distributed computing environments.