IBK Industrial Bank of Korea Strengthens Information Security Base, Adopts Dell 'Cyber Resilience Infrastructure' Solution
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IBK Industrial Bank of Korea newly built a backup infrastructure along with its move to Hanam Data Center.
Based on Dell's 'Cyber Resilience Infrastructure,' it strengthened its ability to respond to ransomware and disaster situations.
It introduced PowerProtect Data Domain DD9400 and DD9900, Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery, and Dell NetWorker to establish an enterprise-wide data protection and recovery framework.
IBK Industrial Bank of Korea said it has newly built a backup infrastructure at Hanam Data Center while moving its IT systems there, with the goal of ensuring stable protection and recovery of enterprise-wide data. The project is intended to upgrade the existing backup environment.
The build is based on a Dell solution, and the solution adopted is Dell's 'Cyber Resilience Infrastructure.' Through this project, IBK Industrial Bank of Korea aimed to strengthen its ability to respond to cyber threats such as ransomware and disaster situations, and to complete a cyber resilience framework that can quickly restore critical operations.
IBK Hanam Data Center began service in May 2025. The center was presented as a digital financial hub for responding to AI and cloud transformation, with traffic capacity expanded by about more than 3 times compared with the existing center.
In addition, redundant power supply lines were incorporated into IBK Hanam Data Center. This also improved power stability.
IBK Industrial Bank of Korea had been using physical Tape in its existing backup environment. However, because of the nature of Tape media, the risk of damage, loss, and aging created a management burden. The existing method also had limits on rapid data search and recovery.
As an alternative, the bank said it reviewed a tapeless backup solution. The rationale for the review included the ability to manage the system automatically and ease of maintenance. The need for rapid recovery when the work environment changes and when data volumes increase was also reflected.
The bank set a goal of isolating backup data in an area separated from the operating environment. It pushed ahead with building an advanced cyber resilience system aimed at enabling quick recovery based on trusted data even if a cyber breach occurs. In this process, the bank focused on Cyber Vault solutions.
The bank also considered how to respond to situations in which both operational data and backup data are exposed to simultaneous attacks. To that end, it reviewed a plan to use Air Gap technology to completely separate the system from external networks and implement physical and logical isolation of data. It also pushed ahead with establishing an automated operations and monitoring framework.
IBK Industrial Bank of Korea adopted PowerProtect Data Domain DD9400 and DD9900 to protect enterprise-wide data and built a high-performance backup infrastructure. It also established a foundation for cyber resilience and disaster recovery (DR) based on Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery and Dell NetWorker, equipping both the infrastructure and recovery framework at the same time.
The data protected covers enterprise-wide data, including account systems, information systems, operations, services, and individual business units. Backup copies were configured as three copies in addition to the original.
The structure operates in stages, beginning with first-stage high-speed local backup at the Hanam operations data center, then performing second-stage backup at a separate off-site center and delivering a third backup for disaster recovery (DR). An advanced multi-replication structure was applied to this design.
IBK Industrial Bank of Korea said the build has secured rapid recovery capabilities for responding to cyberattacks such as ransomware and disaster situations. It also said it supports a variety of heterogeneous database environments with a single integrated backup solution and has simplified the backup and management environment.
Yun Dal-hyeon, a deputy manager at IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, said that the policy finance institution has continued investing in information security to secure financial stability and customer trust, and that it pushed ahead with upgrading its backup infrastructure at the same time as the relocation to Hanam Data Center. He said this backup infrastructure upgrade is more than a simple hardware upgrade, and that it is intended to preemptively defend financial data and systems, which are assets of customer trust. He added that the measure satisfies the security requirements of national financial supervisory authorities while securing cyber resilience capable of responding to large-scale cyberattacks and unexpected disasters, and provides a foundation for restoring operations within a short time. He also emphasized that the backup infrastructure upgrade is both an information security measure and a means of securing strong cyber resilience.
Source: TECHWORLD · Lee Gwang-jae
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=408071
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