Piedmont Trust: Multi-Vendor Infrastructure Transformation

Firewalls and email spam event notifications via Network Operations and email reporting were saturating the Exchange Environment, and congesting the Network Infrastructure carrying the notifications. Manual evaluation of the events was very intensive and revealed that human error in understanding legitimate notifications was an issue.

Proactive management of Network Security had become a challenge to manage regularly with the current staff workloads. Outside Security Assessments are a must for unbiased, thorough, and comprehensive evaluation of the Data Center security. Constant intrusion attempts plague all private Trust Management companies, by the very nature of managing multi-million dollar assets. Even though Piedmont Trust felt confident that an intrusion had not happened, the monitoring and reporting of these events, whether real or perceived, became a productivity nightmare for operations.