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One of India’s Best Equity Brokers Powers 800,000+ Daily Trades with Resilient Access Security from Sectona
Industry
Banking
Kotak Securities is one of the oldest and largest equity broking institutions in India. Established in 1994 and headquartered in Mumbai, it operates as a subsidiary of Kotak Mahindra Bank. The company serves approximately 17 lakh customers and facilitates over 8 lakh trades per day across 393 cities in India. It holds corporate membership with both the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE). With a nationwide presence spanning 1,539 branches, franchisees, and satellite offices, Kotak Securities was adjudged Best Broker at the FinanceAsia Country Awards in 2019.
Challenge
Securing a High-Velocity and Distributed Trading Ecosystem
Kotak Securities managed high volume trades while serving lakhs of customers across India. With a strong focus on technology, they always believed in providing the best services to their customers without interruption. To ensure this, the bank had to secure its IT backbone that supported the fast-paced nature of business.
The key challenges included:
- Securing and monitoring the access of internal users and third-party vendors across IT systems.
- Managing access to cloud (AWS and Azure) workloads.
- Automating password management and user lifecycle management across multiple sites.
- Ensuring business continuity and redundancy with minimal room for downtime.
The Solution
Building a High-Availability and Active-Active Security Framework
Sectona implemented a modern Active-Active architectural approach to provide Kotak Securities with a robust security framework capable of handling high volumes of user access traffic across critical hybrid IT systems.
The platform’s pre-packaged and built-in vault ensured high availability, while enabling faster and simpler redundancy switching during failover scenarios. This significantly reduced Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) and strengthened business continuity.
Sectona also enabled comprehensive monitoring of user activities, including those of third-party vendors. The solution enforced granular restrictions, allowing administrators to control which applications and commands users could access or execute on target systems.
Benefits
High Availability, Controlled Access, and Business Continuity at Scale
As a Digital First organisation, Kotak Securities continuously innovated its technology platforms to support its dynamic business environment. Securing its IT backbone remained central to sustaining operational excellence and customer trust.
With Sectona, the company successfully streamlined the management of diverse user access while optimising resources and maintaining uninterrupted business operations. The solution safeguarded critical infrastructure across multiple locations and delivered the high availability required to support more than 800,000 trades per day.
By strengthening access governance and ensuring resilience, Kotak Securities reinforced its commitment to secure, reliable, and high-performance trading services.
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