Case Study: U.S. Based Multinational Financial Services Corporation achieves high availability and stronger IPS protection with Ixia Security Fabric

U.S. Based Multinational Financial Services Corporation - Customer Case Study

A U.S.-based multinational financial services corporation serving consumers and businesses worldwide needed a more secure, resilient network to protect sensitive data while keeping critical services fast and always available. Its newly purchased intrusion prevention systems could not cluster or share state effectively, creating challenges for high traffic volumes, failover, and maximum security resilience. The company turned to Ixia and its Security Fabric solution, including Ixia xStream40 network packet brokers, Bypass HD switches, and Indigo Pro central management.

Ixia implemented high-availability, active-active traffic handling with load balancing, session integrity, and microsecond-heartbeat failover protection to keep security inspection running even during outages. The result was nearly instantaneous recovery, improved IPS performance and resilience, easier scaling without buying more appliances, and better IT productivity through centralized management of more than 50 sites. Ixia’s solution also helped reduce capital costs by maximizing the use of existing security tools.