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How maXecurityT Saves Millions of Dollars Each YearA large financial institution used a competitive product for Web Access Management. By working with P2 Security, the company was able to determine its true Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). An analysis following the installation of maXecurity revealed annual cost savings of millions of dollars per year. In addition, by switching to maXecurity, the Return on Investment (ROI) was measured in months.
This organization used WAM to protect 500,000 users. While this example does not exemplify every organization's potential cost savings, it does represent the savings that any large organization could gain by switching to maXecurity. Please contact us for a cost-savings analysis for your organization.
Note: the institution did not allow us to release its name for publication, so it will be referred to as Definitions"Bank A." Web Access ManagementWeb Access Management (WAM) is a Initial Purchase Price Web security technology that protects Software Costs an enterprise's sensitive Web resources , applications and data from unauthorized "Bank A" purchased a software-based WAM solution. It paid a per-user licensing fee of $1.50. use. Web Access Management Therefore, the total initial cost was $750,000 covering 500K users. The competitive product systems perform this security function was software-based -- it included both Web agents (software plug-ins that run on the Web by validating a user's credentials servers) and policy servers (the program that communicates with the Web agents regarding (authentication), determining whether policy information). the validated user is entitled to requested resources (authorization), and keeping a record of all unauthorized access Hardware Costs attempts and policy changes (auditing). Since the competitive product is software-based, hardware is also needed in order to run the Most Web Access Management solutions policy server software. The vendor-recommended server platform was Sun V490. Based on also provide for single sign-on (session internal performance testing, Bank A concluded that they needed 65 V490s. Their discounted management).price from the manufacturer was $60,000 each, for a total cost of $3,900,000.
Single Sign-OnInitial Purchase Price Savings Single Sign-On (SSO) is a technology that offers a convenience to users, enabling The maXecurity Enterprise appliances (the top of the line), are able to handle 10,000 them to enter a single set of credentials just simultaneous connections each. maXecurity appliances are priced based on performance, not once to access a variety of resources and number of seats, Only six appliances were needed to net Bank A equivalent performance as applications. This also saves companies previously. Since they load-balanced all of the appliances together, it was decided that eight money by dramatically reducing Help appliances would be ideal, so that there would always be some redundancy in case of failure; Desk calls. Stand-alone SSO products do plus it gave them the flexibility to handle any extra demand that may be incurred during not handle policy authorization, nor do normal and peak use, and expected growth. they audit access to resources as does a Web Access Management product.Eight maXecurity Enterprise appliances have a retail price of $250,000 each. Since the appliances include both the hardware and policy server-equivalent software, and eliminated the need for Web agents, the total initial cost for Bank A's maXecurity-based solution was
www.maXecurity.com  © 2008 P2 Security LLC$2,000,000. Again, the competing product they had in place cost $750,000 for the software licensing fees and $3,900,000 in hardware to run the policy server software, or $4,650,000 -- a Controlling IT Costspremium of $2,650,000. The most cost-effective way Annual Administrative Personnel Costs to implement a technology infrastructure is to consolidate Centralized vs. Delegated Administration hardware while distributing management tasks.Like almost all WAM products on the market today, Bank A's competitive product had a centralized administration console. That meant that there was a single application interface, or maXecurity ta... [download for more]