Financial Institutions

Today’s financial institutions are vulnerable to many serious security risks. Robust physical security measures must be in place to protect valuable assets, cash vaults, and employees. Cyber threats also loom large as hackers relentlessly try to gain access to customers’ financial information. And from a life safety perspective, compliance ranks as an especially daunting challenge.

 

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) each have important requirements in place designed to protect lives. It’s critically important that highly secure locations, including banks, meet the Standard Line Security 200 second supervision standard. It requires a two-way signal path and calls for the line to be tested and verified at intervals of every 200 seconds. If there’s no response for 200 seconds straight, the monitoring station will be notified. Banks that don’t comply with this standard will be turned down for property insurance, a risk they simply can’t take.

 

Couple this compliance demand with the fact that the FCC is working to eliminate traditional copper landlines (a.k.a., Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS) and providers are giving notices to discontinue services. Yet, some 30 million commercial security and fire systems are still using POTS to deliver their critical alarm signals. It simply doesn’t make dollars and sense for financial institutions to overpay for an antiquated and unreliable solution to protect their property and employees. Thankfully, there are several Telguard technology solutions you can take to the bank to keep them safer, more secure, and yes, compliant.

Telguard understands the challenges that financial institutions today face and delivers the technology solutions designed to specifically meet them. Customers can be assured that they’re meeting insurance requirements, the Fire Marshal’s requirements, getting ahead of ongoing federal regulatory changes, and responsibly protecting their assets. Telguard delivers the highest level of security and life safety capabilities and has earned a reputation for being a provider of trusted solutions that financial institutions can bank on.

 

Each Telguard solution delivers significant cost savings to banks while increasing the reliability of their intrusion and fire systems. When it comes to financial institutions, data integrity and security should always be kept top of mind. With systems that can be configured to be highly supervised (200 second notifications) and utilize 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard for data packet transmission and various encryption and authentication options for delivery of events to Remote Supervising Stations, Telguard not only solves the problem of path availability, but provides a solution that enhances data security beyond standard requirements.