Secure Networking in Financial Services
Your financial services organisation likely faces a unique blend of challenges. These include increased customer expectations, growing competition from new and established players, tightening regulations, and the ever-present need for improved efficiencies. Addressing these requirements means sharing data seamlessly and securely between your people, devices, and applications – wherever they are.
That’s where networking comes in. A unified, scalable, and secure network backbone across your entire operations enables the right data to be in the right place at the right time. This means you can make decisions faster, offer experiences that delight customers, unlock efficiencies and cost savings, and meet your compliance requirements.
Transforming data into a foundation for agile decision-making
CDW and HPE Aruba Networking offer a powerful blend of enterprise technology and expertise in the financial services sector. We’ll help you achieve genuine competitive advantage by designing, delivering, maintaining, and evolving the right network for your business today and in the future.
Do more with your data
Effective use of data is crucial for enhancing business decision-making, customer experiences, fraud detection, and operational efficiency.
Using data for these and other purposes means it needs to be moved securely and efficiently between the cloud, edge, legacy data centres, offices, branches, and remote workers’ devices.
CDW utilises HPE Aruba Networking to establish secure, flexible, and scalable network foundations that integrate your IT infrastructure. This enables the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies within your business, unlocking the full value of your data as a competitive differentiator.
Meet your compliance needs
Financial services is one of the most heavily regulated sectors in the world, with frameworks such as the General Data Protection Regulation, Payment Card Industry standards, and the Digital Operational Resilience Act providing a structured approach to managing specific aspects of data protection, security, and operational resilience.
At CDW, we have a large team of financial services specialists. They bring deep expertise in designing and delivering technology solutions and associated business processes to meet regulators’ demands.
Benefit from the simplicity of a unified network, enhanced by AI
Financial services organisations produce and process data across a complex web of systems, from on-premises legacy software to cloud-based machine learning and mobile apps.
Using HPE Aruba Networking technology, CDW will help you tie these complex and disparate systems together, with centralised control. This provides end-to-end visibility of operations, AI-powered automation across your estate, remote diagnostics, and centralised policy management. For your IT teams, this massively streamlines the maintenance of your networking, driving down costs and freeing up skilled teams to add value in other areas.
Your long-term, outcome-focused partner
We pride ourselves in the many long-term partnerships we’ve built with financial services clients, including banks, insurance companies, and venture capital funds. From helping you shape your requirements to the delivery, maintenance, and evolution of your network, CDW will be there with you as your trusted advisor every step of the way.
Customers value our relentless focus on understanding their world and creating well-crafted technology solutions that solve their business problems. In addition to HPE Aruba Networking, we can leverage HPE’s broader portfolio, as well as technology from our partner ecosystem.
Our vision for financial services networks
Modern financial services networks should empower today’s distributed teams to collaborate and innovate effortlessly while safeguarding your data, applications, customers, and reputation.
This first requires the right physical infrastructure, offering flexibility, scalability, and a great experience for those using it. Secondly, it requires Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), which brings together software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) with advanced security features, such as zero-trust architectures and simplified identity-based perimeter protection.
Thirdly, with financial services organisations and their SaaS partners typically using a variety of cloud providers, high-performance multi-cloud support is essential. Lastly, end-to-end visibility and observability are required to enable operations teams to monitor the full estate and ensure all workloads are available, secure, and performing as expected.
By helping financial services organisations implement these four pillars of modern networking, we aim to support innovation, data-driven decision-making, exceptional customer experiences, and compliance – now and in the future.
HPE and Aruba Networking working with you every step of the way
The partnership between CDW and HPE Aruba Networking helps make secure networking adoption simpler, faster and more cost-efficient. Together, we help guide projects from initial concept to full-scale production.
Here’s how our seven-step, end-to-end service can support you every step of the way.
1. Advisory
Our advisory services help accelerate your thinking and align technology strategy with desired outcomes.
2. Assessment
We can tailor technology adoption and optimisation recommendations using tools, data, and years of expertise.
3. Fulfilment
Our team of experts bring years of expertise, extensive experience navigating the complexities of global procurement and supply, empowered by our Logistics & Technology Centre.
4. Implementation
Our expert engineering teams can operate independently or in collaboration to deploy and ensure rapid value from your technology investments.
5. Adoption
We help you get the most out of existing investments through enablement, consolidation, and ongoing knowledge sharing.
6. Manage
Our teams provide 24/7 support and managed services to keep technology running smoothly and securely.
7. Refresh
We keep an overview of evolving networking technologies to continually improve your infrastructure and keep you ahead of the curve.
Download the Guide to Implementing Secure Networking in Financial Services.
Learn more about CDW's strategic approach to implementing secure networking in Financial Services. Our advisory guide explains how we overcome networking challenges to implement flexible, scalable and resilient hardware and software solutions that deliver tangible results for your business.
