Finance

Yes. Having worked with numerous customers in the financial sector with such needs, we are versed in common access management trends, constraints, best practices, and performance considerations to ensure offshore users remain connected, controlled, and productive, always.

Absolutely. Ferroque has designed, engineered, and audited many PCI environments for the technologies in which we specialize, including participating in the audit process with external auditors. Our field experience enables clients to get things right the first time during planning and deployment, and shed light on areas of their existing environments which may not be compliant and creating operational risk.

Indeed. Ferroque has been called upon frequently to assist FIs in developing air-gapped and highly auditable solutions to front sensitive infrastructure including platforms involved with PCI and SWIFT. Oftentimes these platforms require complex authentication requirements and navigation of stringent network controls. We are also skilled in developing conditional access, enterprise browser, and ZTNA solutions to meet a variety of use cases.

This is a frequent requirement of our multi-location and multinational enterprise customers and is an area of strength. From selecting the right delivery modality(ies) that make sense for the use case(s), to designing the appropriate levels of security and accommodating for user endpoint types, peripheral dependencies, network capabilities, data residency, and user location in relation to data, we can devise solutions tailored to your objectives and constraints.

Absolutely! We’re experienced in designing and deploying digital workspaces, SASE, and NetScaler platforms for diverse use cases strictly on-prem and in hybrid or multi-cloud scenarios, in particular Azure and AWS.

Depending on the platform used, a variety of monitoring and analytics platforms are at our disposal to enable auditability on access and use of the platform. We are experienced in deploying and analytics solutions that gauge overall session performance, digital employee experience, and security insights including monitoring for suspicious activities, logins, and access from geo-locations users are not permitted to work from. We can also advise on what is possible, and what is not possible based on the platform technologies in use.

Technical debt is unfortunately commonplace across most enterprises but appears very often in the financial industry. Depending on the circumstances, we can assist in rationalizing your application and infrastructure portfolios, streamline and speed up migration processes through automated application compatibility testing, and developing roadmaps to remediate, migrate, or sunset systems and reduce operational and compliance risks.

Ferroque is experienced in designing and deploying solutions that accommodate hundreds of sites on the WAN. Financial firms such as banks and investment companies often have satellite offices in remote areas, and in general subscribe to a network tiering model that aligns different offices with different network capabilities. These nuances affect the performance of app delivery and we are experienced in optimizing both network and delivery platform to ensure excellent, consistent user experiences no matter the office.

Absolutely. Whether through staff augmentation, collaborative management, or our SOC2 compliant fully managed services, we have options to relieve your pain points and enable organizations to stabilize, optimize, and scale.

Ferroque has conducted over 75 health checks, infrastructure assessments, and security assessments on Citrix, VMware, Microsoft technologies, NetScalers, and major hypervisor and public clouds. Audits are one of our greatest strengths, bringing to bear decades of field experience and our knowledge of ever-evolving vendor best practices to generate actionable insights for customers to resolve or avoid serious issues. We’ve developed some of the most extensive assessment methodologies in our field and they’re continually updated, making annual health checks a common request.