FDIC Opts for Aruba Teleworker Solution

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has selected Aruba’s FIPS 140-2 validated teleworker solutions to provide secure, “instant-on” network access for the agency’s traveling resolution and receivership specialists.

 

FDIC was created as an independent agency by the U.S. Congress in 1933 to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system.

 

Among its many functions the FDIC examines and supervises financial institutions for soundness and manages receiverships.

 

Aruba officials said that the FDIC’s roaming teams require continuous secure access to the agency’s data center, and the simple provisioning, high security and centralized management of the company’s teleworker solutions made them well suited for the project.

 

Company officials said that prior to deploying Aruba, the FDIC used costly, labor-intensive dedicated circuits and virtual private network services between its data center and the field teams. Aruba provided the FDIC with rapidly deployable, FIPS 140-2 validated wireless teleworker kits configured for small or large teams, according to company officials.

 

“The Aruba teleworker field kits are a force multiplier, allowing the FDIC to scale the number and size of the teams that work in the field,” said Dave Logan, general manager of federal solutions, Aruba, in a statement.

 

Logan said that the kits have significantly reduced the time required to activate a team to just minutes instead of days, using an instant-on solution that can be set-up and taken down with minimal IT involvement.

 

He said that equally significant, by replacing the previous VPN system, the FDIC was able to do away with client software and management issues.

 

Logan said that now users need only authenticate to their laptop or PDA using built-in wireless LAN support and they're on the network. The FDIC gets end-to-end transmission and application security with no fuss or bother, he added.

 

Aruba is a major player in wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions. TMCnet recently reported that Britthaven, Inc. has deployed Aruba’s adaptive Wi-Fi networks across 60 skilled nursing facilities and retirement homes in Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia.