Case Studies

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...

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (NWFRS) has selected encryption solutions from Egress. NWFRS works to protect a residential population of over 600,000 people, in addition to the thousands of tourists that visit the area every year. Employing approximately 1,000 staff members, NWFRS attends over 3,200 fires, 500 road traffic collisions and 500 other emergency incidents every year, in addition to delivering initiatives to schools, businesses and local communities to promote fire safety and prevention....

With the increasing regularity of zero-day vulnerabilities being discovered, organisations face a race against the script writers to identify and patch weak defences before they can be exploited.   Tenable Network Security has published a useful infographic that illustrates the scale of the challenge and offers and outlines vulnerability threat monitoring practices that may help.   View the full report here   cyber_security_infographic_v15

Sutton and East Surrey Water (SESW) has successfully deployed ForeScout CounterACT to ensure appropriate endpoint protection across endpoints.   SESW supplies drinking water to approximately 670,000 residents in 284,000 properties in East Surrey and parts of West Sussex, West Kent and South London, which covers 835 square kilometres (322 square miles). SESW supplies, on average, 160 million litres of water per day, a figure that can rise to 220 million litres during the summer.  ...