Background
Founded in 1987 with its head office in Shenzhen, China Merchants Bank is China’s first share-holding commercial bank wholly owned by corporate legal entities, and the first listed company to pass external auditing appraisals based on international accounting standards. It was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2002. CMB’s assets exceed 600 billion Yuan, and it is ranked among the world’s top 200 banks by British financial journal The Banker.

 

Challenges
CMB required its IT department to block about 27 remote control applications.
A method was required for CMB staff to log in via their domain server before accessing the Internet.
P2P applications and streaming media needed to be completely blocked. In addition, enhanced traffic management was required, along with the recording of Internet activities according to Chinese network security law.

 

Benefits
The SANGFOR solution effectively blocks the network applications which CMB required, including P2P, to improve bandwidth efficiency
It blocks websites unrelated to professional activities, again boosting work efficiency
It also controls IM applications in work hours to prevent information leakage
The SANGFOR solution distributes limited bandwidth by group, time and application to differentiate network service quality for different users