The Secure Technology Lab caters to Security Needs of the Banking Industry. It provides consultancy and solution, at par with prevailing standards around the globe, to Banks, Financial Institutions, Corporates and other Business organizations. 

The Lab is also engaged in integration of Digital Signature Application with the legacy software system to make it PKI-enabled. Currently, quite a few nationally important applications are in the process of being developed and integrated. 

The Research and Development Activities of the Secure Technology Lab are focused on the following areas: 

• PKI Enablement of Legacy Software 

• Digital Certificate Management

• Multi-application Smart Card Based Payment System

• Active Audit Guidelines for Security Policy 

• Authentication technologies 

• Banking Security Standards

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The Networking Lab focuses on research experiments in integrating various networking devices and technologies. The experiments would be on simulated real world scenarios to find out better and workable solutions to resolve some of the key issues in networking and traffic optimization. The lab would also be evaluating various tools and Network Management Systems on an ongoing basis with a specific focus on the following:

• Support for testing of Network Management policies and protocols

• Vulnerability study of the various systems through simulated environment 

• Continuous research on network security and quality of services

Presently, the traffic on the INdian FInancial NETwork is being routed using OSPF (Open Shortest Path Finder) protocol. As OSPF supports only equal cost load balancing, and since there are no equal cost paths between any two locations on the INFINET, it is difficult to use alternative paths for load balancing. 

The Multi Protocol Label Switching [MPLS] is an IETF standard, which provides for traffic management along with quality of service(QoS) support with Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). The Networking Lab will be exploring the issues involved in deploying MPLS on the INFINET.

The Lab is fully equipped with routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, security scanner, network scanner, switches etc.

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Business Intelligence drives an Information Organization with technologies and techniques that allow the Enterprise to glean insight from volumes of data. It gains critical importance from the fact the contemporary Banks and Financial Institutions are increasingly becoming more and more data sensitive. 

In the Business Intelligence Lab, we endeavour to develop tools and algorithms for capturing, extracting, analyzing and presenting valuable data from Banks’ internal and external data to support high quality data analysis. We are currently focusing on the development of a suite of tools for Datawarehousing and Datamining and also working on case studies and prototypes.

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The Institute has two spacious Computer Labs, one each in the Academic Block and the Executive Development Centre (EDC). While the Lab in the Academic Block is equipped with 40 Systems, the Lab in the EDC has 24 Systems. Both these Labs are used to provide hands-on training to the participants of the various programmes conducted by the Institute, and it’s also used by the Research Associates for their day-to-day experiments. 

Both the Labs have been designed in such a fashion that the Faculty can easily move across the aisles and rows to pay personal attention to each participant/trainee. The Labs are fully equipped with Multimedia Projection Systems and Public Address Systems.

Participants move from the classroom to the computer lab for sessions requiring hands-on practice and exercises. In cases, where the major portion of an Executive Development Programme requires intensive hands-on sessions, the entire programme is conducted in the Computer Lab itself. 

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The Multimedia Lab is equipped with advanced multimedia systems to cater to the various needs of the Institute. The major emphasis of the multimedia lab is to develop multimedia products for the banking and financial sectors. Towards this end, a Computer Based Training (CBT) on VSATs was prepared by the Lab. 

The Lab has also developed Virtual Walkthroughs of the various facilities of the Institute, which is being displayed through the Touchscreen Kiosk at the Reception of the Institute. Visiting various facilities of the Institute is now literally at the fingertips. The Lab feeds the Publication and Web Development Team of the Institute with graphics and animations as and when required. 

The lab is expected to play a major role in the days to come, when the Institute embarks upon Web Based Post Graduate Programme in Banking Technology Management (PGPBTM). This programme will rely heavily on multimedia inputs - like graphics, animation, audio and video clippings - to make it more comprehensive, user-friendly and easy to follow.

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