Sipera and Belltech Secure Communications for BCI’s Innovative Banking

Richardson, TX, USA, March 24, 2009 – Sipera Systems, the leader in real-time Unified Communications (UC) security, and Belltech, an advanced communication solutions integrator based in Chile, today announced the deployment of the Sipera realtime UC security appliances at BCI (Banco de Crédito e Inversiones).

“By offering a wide variety of banking services online, like Internet calls redirected to our Call Center, protection for remote UC users (customers, providers and employees), Call Center interactions and new Internet ways to interact with our Bank, we can better serve our customers. The success of T Banc reflects our consumers’ desire to conduct more day-to-day banking this way. Interacting with our banking clients over Internet calls, with world class security and privacy protection, enables us to offer several new innovative services that are welcomed by our customers, especially young people.

The Sipera real-time security solution for our Avaya network deployment also enables us to replace our E1 trunk lines with SIP lines from our local carriers, resulting in cost savings,” said Pablo Cousiño, Head of the Innovation Group at BCI. “With Sipera and Belltech, our customers can rest assured that their communications with us are secure.”

Long known for its application of technology and innovation in banking, BCI’s online virtual “T Banc,” that includes online account setup, SMS account information retrieval, customer service calling using VoIP, and the ability to make most of the standard bank transactions online, is now able to conduct transactions over inexpensive SIP trunks, which also carry BCI’s VoIP traffic at a lower cost, expanding the bank’s capability to provide wide and diverse new services. The Sipera IPCS appliance not only secure the SIP trunks, but also simplifies the deployment and provides Quality of Service (QoS) reporting, enabling protection and monitoring of these critical applications for attacks, breaches and other anomalies.

“More so than many other businesses, banks are challenged to offer services online while providing the highest levels of security and privacy. BCI has embraced unified communications to better serve customers, and reduce communications costs,” said John Firnett, VP Sales South America, Sipera Systems. “What’s also important is that BCI recognized the need to fully secure these applications by partnering with Belltech and deploying world class UC security solutions from Sipera.”

“Businesses in many industries are adopting Unified Communications to create newways to interact with clients. Our sophisticated customers understand the need formatching comprehensive security with these roll outs, and set the example for others inadopting UC,” said Renán Pérez, Sales Manager, Belltech, a Sipera reseller covering South America. “Sipera’s comprehensive UC security is ideal for businesses, both large and small, looking to simplify and secure UC deployments.”

Sipera Systems, the leader in real-time UC security, enables enterprises to simplify and confidently deploy their VoIP and unified communications over any network to any device while service providers can protect and quickly offer new IP-based communication services. Backed by the extensive vulnerability research of the Sipera VIPER Lab, the Sipera IPCS™ products provide comprehensive threat protection, policy enforcement, access control, and privacy in a single, real-time appliance. For more information, visit http://www.sipera.com.

Jan Jahosky, TurboPR, 407-331-4699, jan@turbopr.com