Honeywell Pro-Watch manages access control for the Japanese bank Nomura worldwide

Nomura international bank, with headquarters in Tokyo and offices around the world, has opted for Honeywell Security's access control system for its global coverage, operation 24×7 and centralized and flexible management.

With offices in the main financial centers of the world, The Japanese bank Nomura offers specialized solutions and services in the commercial and investment environment in companies and institutions.

Precisely due to this international deployment, An element of vital importance for the entity was to have a risk-free access control system., easy to use it, besides, offered a global presence and was flexible enough to manage access control demands at any Nomura office from a single point, while maintaining operational autonomy at the local level.

In order to ensure that its professionals carry out their work in a safe and risk-free environment, The entity has invested in a security access control solution Honeywell Security, specifically Pro-Watch Enterprise Edition, that meets these requirements and can be expanded in the future.

An example of this installation has been the Nomura offices in London, an Angel Lane, that when they were acquired one of the priorities was to update the access control solution quickly to safely manage authorized visits, keep a record of the people they were in and keep staff protected at all times.

Availability 24×7

The Angel Lane building has a large number of workers who require different levels of access authorization, some for strictly controlled and restricted areas. For this reason, the system had to be operational 24×7 in order to adapt to different change patterns and offer personalized reports with multiple criteria, as well as store up 4.000 users, including staff, authorized contractors and visitors.

Besides, The solution had to allow Nomura to isolate and separate the people who make investment decisions from those who have access to confidential information that could influence those decisions., following the regulations of the current financial services authority (FSA), in order to protect privileged information and ensure that it is not traded illegally.

Under these premises, Nomura officials specified the Honeywell Pro-Watch Enterprise Edition security management system and, It was later offered to the independent security consultancy CornerStone GRG managing the execution of the design of security systems, its specification and management in the bidding and installation process, whose award fell to the security integrator Universal Security Systems.

Centralized and global solution

The Pro-Watch solution would operate on the bank's own network through a single database and would allow Nomura to centrally control access to an unlimited number of doors and zones., not just in the Angel Lane office, but also in any other banking entity in the world, including remote data centers.

The basis of all this is an enterprise server that allows the global management of several independent regional servers. The first acts as a central storage area for system configurations and stores card user information and transaction history, while regional servers function independently as local databases, while sharing information with the business server.

By being compatible with an unlimited number of card readers and users, Pro-Watch Enterprise Edition addresses the challenges of Nomura's growing business. Plus easy to use, This system has simplified compliance with Nomura's access policy through the use of shortcuts and integrated wizards.

Para Andy Williams, Nomura security manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa, “Honeywell Pro-Watch is a robust safety management system, robust, flexible and consistent in its integration capacity, since we have been able to integrate it with our own PeopleSoft human resources system and with the intranet, which has allowed us to save significant administrative time, eliminating repetitive data recording associated with management, to the alignment of access rights and information of card users”.

Windows-based graphical user interface minimizes operator training and software wizards improve system consistency across sites, which helps reduce installation and overall learning time for new users.

Thanks to integration with the Nomura intranet, Department heads can easily request changes to access rights for their employees. Regarding compliance with the regulations of the financial services authority (FSA), Access rights are managed by creating separate groups for employees of the business advisory area and the stock market investment department..

Report generation

With its integrated redundancy system, Honeywell Pro-Watch Provides Added Value in Emergency Recovery Planning. In case of a power failure or a problem on the main server, Access control rights can be managed from any other Nomura office, within the global network of this access control system.

Besides, security teams in each office have complete control over all event and system information, and can even monitor door alarms in multiple locations at once.

Obtaining reports is also very simple. In the event that historical data is needed, access control records can be quickly accessed, or if a fire alarm occurs, A report is made to show the details of all staff within the building at that specific time. Even the 'gateway/time' reports are also very practical, since they can be used as proof that someone was present in a place at a certain time and date.

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