Founded in 1960 as a community bank, Whidbey Island Bank has now grown to twenty branches serving over 85,000 individuals, families and businesses in Western Washington. With over 300 employees, the bank provides a full range of personal and business banking services, including online banking.  

Whidbey Island Bank recognizes that their customers expect privacy and security for their personal and financial affairs. The bank is committed to maintaining standards and procedures designed to protect against misuse of customer information. Whidbey Island Bank is also impacted by a variety of regulations including FDIC and State Banking Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.  To ensure compliance with these regulations, their Information Technology (IT) operations are audited annually by at least three different groups: Federal Banking Examiners, and both Internal and External auditors.

“All the reports that had to be run for audits were an overwhelming task for any IT department.  I was considering hiring a person to scour through the complex array of security reports that we needed for compliance purposes,” said Ron Campbell, VP Technology & Information Systems at Whidbey Island Bank.

Prior to utilizing PowerTech products, the IT department had tried several other solutions but those proved to be unsuccessful at tackling their auditing and access control challenges.  PowerTech products were ultimately chosen as solutions to these challenges because of the comprehensive scope of the product line, PowerTech’s professional approach to implementation and their knowledgeable reputation in the industry.

Whidbey Island Bank chose PowerTech Compliance Monitor to meet their auditing needs and PowerTech Network Security to secure their System i from internal threats. 

• Compliance Monitor - Customizable audit reporting; data consolidation across multiple systems into a single report; exceptions to existing security policy reporting; updated predefined reports to meet current regulations, including SOX and PCI.
  
  
• Network Security - Uses IBM exit point technology to protect AS/400 data from unwanted network access, securing critical information from theft, loss and fraud.

PowerTech software is key to meeting Whidbey Island Bank’s regulatory compliance requirements.  The penetration testing audit team was extremely impressed by the level of access control and reporting that they had from the System i after implementing Compliance Monitor.