leomohan-2024

Banking and Financial Sector companies have come a long way from the conventional banking system to modern means of providing various services to the customers at their finger trips. Long days of wait for cheque clearances, long queues at tellers and the rate of which each transaction used to occur is long gone. Now you have Internet Banking System, Mobile Banking System, and Interactive Video Customer Services. Opening of bank accounts through tablets right from the customer’s home, online transactions through NEFT (National Electronic Fund Transfer), RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement), IMPS (Immediate Payment Service), payment wallets and several such new features have modernized and simplified banking activities. Technology brings fantastic benefits. However, the IT teams of these financial sector organizations who are into modernization face tremendous challenges. On the customer front, they need to ensure intuitive, colourful and easy to use customer interfaces that ensure t...

Happiest days of Networking? Desktop wired to a face plate, wired back to the switches and you must be physically present to access the local or corporate network resources. Then came the flexibility of laptops. You can carry it wherever you want. Presentation at a customer place, no issues. Design your presentation, off-you go, attach to the projector at the conference room and deliver a presentation. But back to the office network, you need that magic RJ-45 Ethernet cable to get hooked to the corporate network. One file server, and one print server, and somewhat advanced networks you used to have mail servers. Then came the wireless networks. Laptops needed a PCMCIA card to make your connection wirelessly. Yet, some control with the network administrators. Introduction of built-in wireless devices, introduction of smart phones, tablets and umpteen other devices resulted in complete loss of control and administrators now with sophisticated designations as ‘Security Administrato...

My grandfather often used to recollect his father’s advice: Never buy lands beyond what your eyes can see! Obviously, beyond your direct vision of your lands, nobody knows who is utilizing them, and how. Drawing the analogy to the modern-day Network Managers, you can’t manage the network you can’t see. Modern day networks are large and complex with disparate systems, security and monitoring tools. Often, these tools are purchased and deployed to address one immediate requirement with no deep-down thinking or long term thought process. Network managers are left with so many stove-pipe solutions and many places to look at when it comes to troubleshooting. Compliance to various security agencies and government requirements mean more and more security tools. Put together can these tools are able to still leave them with a good night’s sleep is still a question. Network Visibility is becoming a key discussion point in all IT discussions. How much you know about your network and how...