Top NBFC Player Strengthens Security with Umbrella Infocare’s Network Firewall
India’s well-known online lender that operates in consumer loans, SME lending, and commercial/corporate lending. It was launched after acquiring GE Money and with the support of AION capital partners. It offers a variety of consumer loans, such as personal loans, education loans, and used car loans.
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Published Date : 08-May-2023
Why this NBFC player wanted to enhance security
The client had the following requirements and challenges:
- A security solution at the perimeter level
- Automatic blocking of malicious IP addresses
- Auto scalability
- Restricted access to specific domains/websites from servers hosted in the environment
- Intrusion prevention with IPS signatures.
As a financial services provider, it holds huge volumes of sensitive user data and is accountable for meeting stringent security standards and data protection. They needed a robust architecture that reinforced security and enabled threat readiness.
Leveraging AWS security services for network protection
The client had a crucial need to protect their network from threats and attacks. While implementing infrastructure management services, Umbrella Infocare added Network Firewall with multi-layer protection across multiple AWS accounts to the client’s environment. This solution offers key network safeguards that automatically scale with the traffic flow, eliminating the need to manage any infrastructure. Additionally, the Network Firewall’s flexible rules engine enables customers to define firewall regulations, granting them precise control over their network traffic. Additionally, to enhance AWS infrastructure, Umbrella Infocare has also configured multiple other security services for alerting and monitoring.
AWS Services used
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon GuardDuty
- Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
- AWS Access Analyzer
- AWS Certificate Manager
- AWS CloudWatch Events
- AWS Config
- AWS Config Rules
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Firewall Manager
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
- AWS Network Firewall
- AWS Secrets Manager
- AWS Security Hub
- AWS Single Sign-On
Benefits of deploying Network Firewall for Client
With a growing number of customers, this leading online lender required a highly scalable security solution with minimum downtime. The implementation of AWS Network Firewall across several clients’ production, testing, and other service environments helps them achieve their goals, including:
- Automated scaling and high availability
- Automatic safeguarding of multiple environments against harmful IP addresses
- Threat prevention via IPS functionality for all incoming and outgoing traffic
- Web filtering for outgoing internet traffic
- Alerts and monitoring for network traffic
- Management and customization of rules
- Continuous posture check for AWS environment
- Easy Management of Certificates and Security Keys
