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5.1 Organization profile

The financial accounting company is a leading financial services organization

with headquarters in London. It operates on the continents of Europe, Asia, and

the Americas. The financial accounting company offers private banking and

insurance products.

The financial accounting company started as a privately held organization and

was acquired by a large universal bank in England. This bank made an initial

public offering for the financial accounting company six months ago on the New

York Stock Exchange.

The financial accounting company is expanding its worlwide operations quickly,

opening many new branch offices in the last two years. The company currently

employs approximately 80,000 employees and 40,000 contractors. The company

provides insurance products to more than 800,000 households and performs

wealth management for more than 135,000 private investors.

5.1.1 Current IT infrastructure

The financial accounting company uses mirrored and resilient data centers in

London for the European and worldwide operations. These centers also host the

mainframe system and a mirrored storage area network (SAN) for 250 TB of

data. The organization hosts a small local data center in each main office on

each continent where it operates. The data centers are in these cities:

򐂰 Newark to support North American operations

򐂰 Sao Paulo to support Latin American operations

򐂰 Taipei to support Asian operations

򐂰 Zurich, because of the regulatory restrictions in exporting banking customer

data outside of Switzerland

The financial accounting company has four satellite offices to support strategic

sales and geographical expansion:

򐂰 Toronto, Canada

򐂰 Tokyo, Japan

Information security sample: In the following sections, we describe

organization information that is relevant to an endpoint security and

compliance management solution. It is not intended to provide a complete

description of the organization, and the subsequent sections do not cover all

necessary activities related to information security in detail.

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򐂰 Austin, United States

򐂰 Krakow, Poland

Figure 5-1 shows the current geographical distribution.

Figure 5-1 Geographical distribution of the financial accounting company

The financial accounting company uses an IT environment with common

elements for financial services institutions. The company uses mainframes to

perform its most critical core business banking data processing, and a distributed

environment to provide IT services to customers, employees, contractors, and

business partners.

The distributed environment consists of these components:

򐂰 Workstations and notebooks, which use Microsoft Windows XP and Windows

7, that are deployed in all branches

򐂰 File and print servers that run on Windows Server 2003 and 2008, which are

deployed in data centers and satellite offices as departmental servers

򐂰 Web servers and application servers that run on Linux Red Hat Enterprise

Server and that are deployed in data centers

򐂰 Anti-virus Relay that runs on Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server and is

deployed in each location

򐂰 Database servers that run on IBM AIX and that are deployed in data centers

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The financial accounting company estimates that it deployed approximately

120,000 endpoints, including servers, workstations, and notebooks.

Table 5-1 shows how these endpoints are distributed among the locations.

Table 5-1 Endpoint distribution

Working remotely: We consider small offices and home offices, which are in

the same country, part of the main offices or satellite office locations. Small

offices and home offices are called

remote offices.

Endpoint location Platform Amount

London, UK Windows XP and 7 25,000

Windows Server 2003 and 2008 80

Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server 5 140

IBM AIX 6.1 14

Krakow, Poland Windows XP and 7 4,000

Windows Server 2003 12

Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server 5 8

Zurich, Switzerland Windows XP and 7 500

Windows Server 2003 7

Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server 5 4

IBM AIX 6.1 2

Newark, US Windows XP and 7 18,000

Windows Server 2003 10

Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server 5 20

Austin, US Windows XP and 7 5,000

Windows Server 2003 20

Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server 5 10

Toronto, Canada Windows XP and 7 10,000

Windows Server 2003 18

Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server 5 25