BANGALORE: UK based financial services group, Friends Provident, has chosen
Wipro Technologies’ application security product, WiproWebsecure, to protect
its e-commerce and web based intranet applications. This was announced by Wipro
in a media release.
Friends Provident are deploying WiproWebsecure, an Identity and Permission
Infrastructure product, across its entire enterprise, providing their customers,
partners, employees and other stakeholders with a secure environment for
accessing personalized knowledge and services.
Wipro assessed Friends Provident’s enterprise-wide e-architecture and
suggested a comprehensive enterprise security framework. WiproWebsecure, with
single sign-on and fine-grained level access rights, provided complete
protection to information.
Friends Provident director of IT, Andy Jackson, said: "Not only is
WiproWebsecure proving effective at securing web-based content and applications,
but the superior technical support and security consulting expertise offered by
Wipro match the requirements of a relatively large enterprise such as
ours."
Wipro has had a relationship with Friends Provident since May 2001 and has
been a premium partner providing high value IT services including software
development, maintenance and integration of applications.
Friends Provident, Head of IT strategies, Bob Marsh said, " Friends
Provident are now delivering WEB based IT services to customers, employees and
partners and in doing this it is imperative we fully protect their data and our
systems. WiproWebsecure was chosen because it satisfies all of our functional
security requirements, is strategically very sound in terms of its openness and
integration capabilities. It also comes with superb support from the Wipro
engineers."
Wipro Technologies, vice president Insurance Solutions, Soumitro Ghosh
commented: "Through Wipro WebsecureTM we continue to add value to our long
term relationship with Friends Provident. We will help our clients to reduce
their time to market and ensure a robust security framework."
WiproWebsecure provides a single security umbrella enforcing a centralized
application security policy across the organization. Organisations can achieve a
Unified security model for all their existing and future web applications and
on-line services.
The User provisioning and Self Service functions enables organisations to cut
their off-line customer support costs and complexities, save administration time
and costs, increase administration and operational efficiencies, improve
customer, partner and employee satisfaction, productivity. WiproWebsecure
integrates with most of the leading third party applications and web based
home-grown applications, to provide entire application level security.