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FEATURE: FINANCE
WE HAD A
BASIC SECURITY
MONITORING
SOLUTION
BUT IT DIDN’T
GIVE US THE
CORRELATION
CAPABILITIES WE
FELT WE NEEDED.
this area for us, but our entire infrastructure
with all its elements is now 100% covered by
our ArcSight-driven SIEM,” he said.
“Any future devices or systems can easily be
integrated as the Internet of Things (IoT)
becomes more relevant in our industry.
“We are fully compliant with any industry
regulations and feel confident we can
respond quickly and accurately to any
security threats.”
KFH has leveraged ArcSight to integrate with
many financial applications. This makes
adding digital payment capabilities seamless
and simple by removing data silos and using
customer data for real-time payments. It has
helped minimise online fraud and ensures
data confidentiality. drop report-building capabilities from within
the same database.
KFH has created an integrated enterprise
software platform that brings together
proven, real-time core processing with
channel solutions from Finastra, a unique
cloud platform built specifically for the
financial market. This ensures that consistent
information is available throughout the
entire enterprise and that adding and
maintaining customer records is simplified
and streamlined. KFH leverages these concepts in advanced
use cases to correlate the IT/security logs
with financial data to cross verify attacks and
identify vulnerabilities.
It improves compliance, as reporting and
analysis is also made easier with drag and
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ArcSight Flex connectors for these use
cases were developed through Micro Focus
Professional Services and are available
through Arc Sight Marketplace.
Results
KFH’s main objectives were to be fully
compliant and have complete visibility of
their infrastructure, improving their ability
to respond in a timely manner to any threat
events. Behzadi is confident this has been
achieved: “It’s hard to measure success in
The KFH security team is also looking into
adding ArcSight Data Platform (ADP) to its
SIEM. This will enable KFH to easily collect,
normalise, enrich and distribute their event
data to any other data consumers they may
have, including their analytics tools.
Behzadi concludes: “We want to expand
our SIEM to provide a group level security
service, centralised in Kuwait, to encompass
our banking and non-banking subsidiaries.
“With our ArcSight implementation we feel
ready to tackle this new challenge in an
evolving threat landscape.
“ArcSight has helped us meet all compliance
mandates in order to mitigate the risk
of fines and potentially negative legal
ramifications. We look forward to our
continued partnership with Micro Focus.” n
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