Leverages Real-Time Change Control to Streamline IT Change Process
and Meet Stringent Compliance Audit Requirements
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Solidcore(R) Systems, Inc., the leading provider of software to
detect and prevent unwanted change, today announced that ATB
Financial, one of the largest financial institutions in Canada, will
implement Solidcore's S3 Control(TM) software to gain comprehensive
visibility over changes across the information technology (IT)
environment and prevent change related IT outages. The implementation
will enable ATB Financial to increase its IT service availability and
streamline change processes.
ATB Financial has a distributed infrastructure that includes
numerous servers, network devices and databases in data centers
throughout Canada. The bank relies on its infrastructure and making
regular changes and updates to the infrastructure to provide the
highest level of service to its customers. To ensure the highest level
of availability across these critical systems and to ease the process
of complying with the bank's general audit requirements, ATB Financial
will utilize Solidcore S3 Control to detect and validate changes
across the IT infrastructure in real-time. ATB Financial will leverage
Solidcore S3 Control to enforce pre-established change policies, and
prevent out-of-policy or ad hoc change attempts to the infrastructure.
Solidcore S3 Control will also provide IT staff at ATB Financial with
detailed reports about each change and change attempt to streamline
their stringent compliance auditing procedures.
"Our IT infrastructure is at the heart of providing exceptional
customer service, and as a leading financial institution we cannot
afford to have unauthorized change compromise the availability of the
network and systems that propel our financial services," said Michael
Redeker, vice president and chief technology officer for ATB
Financial. "Solidcore is the key to managing change across our IT
environment, and we look forward to using the S3 Control product to
verify that our IT change management best-practices are followed and
unauthorized change is not allowed to occur on our critical systems."
Solidcore S3 Control is a comprehensive control solution that
greatly reduces the cost and effort needed to improve IT service
availability and regulatory compliance. Solidcore captures critical
change detail in real-time, including "who" is making changes, "what"
is actually being changed, "when" change is occurring, and "how" the
change was made. This enables organizations to ensure deployed systems
are always in a known and verified state. With Solidcore's real-time
change prevention technology, unauthorized changes can be
automatically blocked to ensure continuous service availability. All
change events can be quickly summarized in reports to provide
comprehensive visibility across the network with minimal effort.
"Rigorous demands are often placed on the IT group of a financial
institution, which often translates into an increased number of file
and configuration changes across the infrastructure, and a greater
risk for unwanted change," said David Walker, senior vice president of
worldwide field operations for Solidcore. "If you are not using
Solidcore to detect and stop unwanted change, you are playing Russian
Roulette with your IT infrastructure. We are excited to see ATB
Financial join a rapidly growing portfolio of customers that are
eliminating change-related risks and outages with Solidcore's
real-time change control."
About ATB Financial
ATB Financial is the largest Alberta-based financial institution
in Canada with assets of $23.3 billion. It provides personal and
business financial services, investor services and corporate financial
services to more than 660,000 Albertans in 244 communities. It
provides service through 157 branches and 134 agencies, telephone and
Internet banking, a customer contact centre and automated banking
machines. ATB Financial was established in 1938 and is a provincial
Crown corporation since 1997. For more information about ATB
Financial, visit www.atb.com.
About Solidcore
Solidcore is the leading provider of software to detect and
prevent unwanted change. Organizations worldwide trust Solidcore's
change control software to improve IT compliance, security and
availability. Solidcore S3 Control easily automates PCI and SOX
controls for compliance reporting, locks down critical systems to
ensure only trusted applications run, and prevents change-related
outages for improved service availability and accelerated ITIL
adoption. Solidcore is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For
more information, please visit www.solidcore.com.
Solidcore is a registered trademark of Solidcore Systems, Inc. in
the United States and other countries. Solidcore S3 Control is a
trademark of Solidcore Systems, Inc. All other product names,
trademarks, and service marks mentioned herein are the property of
their respective owners.
Release Summary:
Solidcore today announced that ATB Financial will implement
Solidcore's S3 Control software to gain comprehensive visibility over
changes across the information technology (IT) environment and prevent
change related IT outages.
KEYWORDS: atb financial, change control, change process, it
compliance, outage
Solidcore Systems, Inc.
Tony Thompson, 1-408-387-8444
tthompson@solidcore.com
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