<p>The studied application area is a private bank with different branches located in different provinces around the country. There was not integrated security solution to provide communication among different branches. Some of these branches could communicate through the satellite and the others could communicate through a different technology, such as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM).</p><p>Different bank security policies were applied and maintained for different branches separately. In addition, the number of branches is expected to grow during coming year in each province.</p><p>The old topology was partial mesh and it could not support enough redundancy in case of disruption. If a connection between two branches failed, other branches might lose their connectivity as well. In addition, it could not achieve optimum routing.</p><p>Providing integrated quality of service (QoS) for the wide area network (WAN) by using different technologies is not easy to achieve, and it causes so many problems for the system. The bank uses a variety of protocols for different applications, depending on its demand, so the new applied technology should not depend on protocols, or at least should support different protocols at a same time. In the old technology, the bank was responsible for granting availability and connectivity maintenance. Providing proper bandwidth is an important aspect in the bank scenario and for the old technology; supplying enough bandwidth was costly.</p><p>As mentioned above, the old applied technology was dependent upon different protocols. Therefore, packets in different open system interconnection layers (OSI layers) would have to check thoroughly to find the source/ destination address, data and so on, to reach the correct destination. This might cause security problems for entire system. In addition, processing packet in each layer of the OSI model is time consuming.</p><p>One important aspect for the retail-banking scenario is considering all features of the security domain, such as security policy, information security, physical security, access level control, integrated security for the system and so on. Some features of the security domain in this project were not covering completely, such as integrated information security, merged security policy, and integrated physical security for the system.</p><p>In this project, all mentioned problems are solved by implementing a specific communication technology which can overcome the problems above. This technology supports multiple protocols, and it provides fast and secure communication. It can also cover redundancy and it does not cost as much as previous technologies like ATM and satellite. Easy provisioning is one feature of this technology. In this technology, the service provider is responsible for granting availability and connectivity maintenance.</p><p>The mentioned features of the security domain, which were not covered by the old technology, will be covered by a proper, integrated security solution. The IP-based physical security systems provide centralized monitoring and they can define a merged security policy for all different branches around the country. Specific, pre-defined scenarios are created for different events in different situations.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hh-4833 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | H.Daryani, Sara, Taslimi, Pouria |
| Publisher | Halmstad University, School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering (IDE), Halmstad University, School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering (IDE) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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