Case Studies

Egg

Egg is Europe's largest and most successful on-line bank. It boasts some 3m customers and has built its success on launching innovative products faster and more cost-effectively than its competitors.

The need

From launch, Egg sought specialist expertise to help plan its network security architecture and manage its networks. Specifically it required:

• the best staff in the industry
• a way to minimise operating costs
• technical excellence combined with business skills
• advice on banking regulation compliance

We delivered...

ACSN has provided specialist expertise to Egg from its inception, complementing the company's in-house team with the following skills:

• project management
• project consulting
• systems integration
• audit work
• managed services

We helped design and deploy a secure distributed network for 3m customers and 3,000 users, meeting management and reporting requirements while maintaining low costs of ownership. Security elements included firewalls, routers and intrusion detection systems - running 24x7.

The results

Thanks to its secure, manageable infrastructure, Egg retains its position as Europe's most successful on-line bank; it continues to market ground-breaking products and services from chip and pin to online transaction guarantees.