Client Experience: Marriage Registration Management Information System of the Department of Civil Affairs of Sichuan Province

Our Client

Since the implementation of informationization construction, marriage registration management information system has always been an information security guarantee project for each local government department, because it involves with the immediate interests and rights of a person concerned. In order to ensure system operation and data security, the department of civil affairs in every province has made significant notice with respect to such an issue.

His Demand

1) To avoid any information modification without the authorization of a provincial department as well as the leaking, loss and damage of information resources; to carry out data security and backup.

2) To make the system network relatively independent; to connect to the network and report data at regular time; to make its maintenance performed by professional staff to ensure the integrity and accuracy of data information, and other various information security management requirements with high preference.

3) For peak stages such as Valentine’s Day, Olympic Games, etc. being on duty is specially required to be intensified to ensure normal operation of the network.

His Experience

ICEFLOW Network SSL VPN secure gateway serves for the gateway outlet of the marriage registration management system of the Department of Civil Affairs of Sichuan Province, and it undertakes the task of safeguarding the network security, information communication security and information transmission stability. Based on VPN secure tunnel transmission property, the independence of private network tunnel is even presented in public network transmission and the transfer of key data is guaranteed and the secret leakage accidents are avoided.

Concerning the requirement for the network system, in addition to providing dual system hot standby to ensure 72 h of ceaseless operation, ICEFLOW also provides standby service for the Department of Civil Affairs in rush hour to deal with sudden accident.

ICEFLOW SSL VPN undertakes transferring data from each urban area to the data center of the provincial department. The private network has been cancelled to reduce the operation cost of the Department of Civil Affairs of Sichuan Province, and according to the characteristics of SSL VPN mobile access, the applications of original marriage registration system has been expanded to the greatest extent, making the network cover the villages and towns that can apply PC service in its civil affairs function and fully realizing the applicable interconnection of the approximately 5000 nodes of villages and towns in the whole province.

His Success

1) It meets the need of data concurrency from the 181 cities/counties/regions in the whole province, a total of approximately 5000 application nodes, realizing large-scale access;

2) The ceaseless 72 h operation is fully ensured by applications of inventory service platform, 10-sec fault healing, duel system double way hot standby, etc;

3) Moreover, its characteristics of secure encryption transmission, resource load balance and resource intelligent release etc. all aim to security, stability and ease of use, thoroughly serve to each marriage registration work station, and witness the sublimation of love between newly-married lovers together with the Department of Civil Affairs at various levels.

Hot Standby

Realization Principles:

The public network is connected through two optical fibers, each of which shall be transferred into Ethernet signals through a transceiver and shall be connected to two parallel VPN devices by using two Ethernet lines after passing a small switch to realize load balance, path and device backup.

Hot Standby

If both routes and both VPN devices are normal: each branch terminal will automatically connect to the two VPN devices from two routes, which will share the flow. The two VPN devices will automatically share the load.

About Them

The Department of Civil Affairs of Sichuan Province implements and carries out the laws, rules and each national guiding principle and policy on civil affairs work, makes local rules, regulations and policies of civil affairs and organizes the implementation, supervision and inspection thereof, as well as prepares the development plan of civil affairs and guides the building of civil affairs teams in the whole province.

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