Patelco Protects Itself from Insiders with Outside Equipment

Bank Technology News | March, 2010

Security losses can come from all sorts of sources, including accidental breaches that occur when workers bring their own technology into the workplace—causing Patelco Credit Union to recently deploy new technology to simultaneously protect its network from outside and inside threats.

By installing ForeScout’s CounterACT security product, the $3.6 billion credit union hopes to combine technology asset management and protection with network access control.

“We can have an employee come in from home with a computer with a security problem, which could cause a Trojan to spread across an entire network” says John Shields, CTO of Patelco Credit Union. “We have faced these kinds of problems in the past and are trying to avoid that.”

CounterACT manages up to 400,000 devices, offering protection through access control, compliance management, asset visibility, patch control and malicious threat protection.

Patelco, which maintains 40 full service branches, also hopes to use the deployment to help the CU automate its collection of security information for quarterly regulatory compliance audits.