Case Studies

BeyondTrust has completed a successful project helping the University of Winchester deliver a campus-wide consistent and robust security policy while reducing IT management overheads.   A 175 year-old institution offering programmes of and employing over 1,000 staff with a community of over 8,000 students, the University of Winchester was ranked among the top 20 universities in England for overall satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2014.   The smooth-running of the campus includes a strong...

JLT, one of the world’s leading providers of insurance, reinsurance and employee benefits has partnered with Good Technology to mobilise it’s workforce. Seeking a way to modernise productivity tools for its global workforce by enabling employees to work on the mobile devices of their choice, with approximately 9,500 employees worldwide, the company opted for Good Technology. Due to strict regulations and compliance concerns, the company had previously only offered approved BlackBerry phones for mobile workers....

Norwich School has deployed ForeScout's CounterACT to provide enhanced visibility for devices accessing its network. Norwich School is a co-educational, independent day school for pupils aged seven to 18. Norwich School required a network access control (NAC) solution to increase the visibility and security compliance of devices being used by its 1050 students and approximately 250 staff, in one location across multiple buildings. “CounterACT, in our opinion, had an easier to use interface which makes...

Law firm TaylorWessing has chosen the two-factor authentication (2FA) solution from Winfrasoft.   With a view that passwords should not feature in future of its security and authentication procedures, the IT department at TaylorWessing took an innovative step to find a strong two-factor authentication (2FA) solution. In the past, the IT department at TaylorWessing had trialled hard-tokens, but these proved extremely unpopular with partners of the law firm, who did not want to carry them...

BeyondTrust helps RWE Supply & Trading mitigate administrative rights and unauthorised download risks   BeyondTrust has announced a project to helping RWE Supply & Trading, a leading pan-European energy trading house, to reduce security risks while meeting budgetary and regulatory constraints.   RWE Supply & Trading is a key player in the European energy sector serving as the interface between the global wholesale markets for energy and energy-related raw materials, and the RWE Group, one...

Marie Curie has adopted the Egress Switch Secure Email and Egress Switch Secure File Transfer technologies in order to encrypt and control the sensitive information it shares with authorised third parties. Every year, the cancer charity supports and cares for more than 40,000 terminally ill people and their families, with plans to provide more services to an increased number of individuals in coming years. As a result, Marie Curie staff need to communicate quickly and securely with each...

Egress Software Technologies today announced the ongoing success of a secure communication project undertaken with Flintshire County Council.   Using encryption service Egress Switch, the council is able to secure and control the sensitive information it needs to share with external third parties, including other authorities; health, social care and education providers; and citizens. In addition, used by all local authorities in North Wales, Switch provides a single platform for secure communication across the region....

Varonis is working with University of Liverpool to overcome the challenge of users moving sensitive data to personal cloud-based storage.   With Varonis DatAnywhere, the university now offers its 32,000 students and 4,700 staff the flexibility to sync its file-share data across all of their devices with the added ability to securely share files with external collaborators. Within eight days of rolling out the software, the university had 1,366 new DatAnywhere users.   Andy Williams,...

Public WiFi provider The Cloud has deployed Dell SonicWALL’s Content Filtering Service and firewalls to offer additional security capabilities to customers.   The use of Dell SonicWALL solutions has enabled The Cloud to strengthen network security and save money from combining solutions, as well having the capacity to handle traffic spikes even on the most demanding enterprise networks, using a scalable, high density, multi-core, high-performance architecture.   The Cloud was previously running through a proxy-based...

HP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire encryption provider Voltage Security. Sitting alongside its other security offerings: SIEM technology ArcSight, integrator Vistorm and code review service Fortify, the acquisition of Voltage Security will complement HP Atalla, HP’s information security and encryption business. Art Gilliland, senior vice president and general manager of enterprise security products said that the  announcement aligns with HP’s focus on end-to-end protection of the data itself, helping enterprises neutralise the impact...