Case Studies

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.  ...

Laya Healthcare has selected technology from FireEye to protect nearly half a million customers’ details. The second largest private healthcare insurance provider in Ireland, Laya Healthcare has been a provider of private healthcare insurance for more than 15 years. “At Laya Healthcare we place innovation at the heart of everything we do hence we chose the leader in the field FireEye to help take care of our security posture. It also keeps us on the...

EQALIS, an Accumuli company, has provided a Splunk protective monitoring solution including custom-developed GPG13 app to Redfern Travel, a fast growing, UK-based travel management company. The log management solution enables the travel company to have complete operational visibility and provides intelligence that assists in identifying security threats or potential breaches. Redfern, an online travel booking company, supplies services to government departments, including HM Revenue & Customs, Department of Education, DEFRA, Department of Health and the...

ForeScout Technologies has announced that long-time customer, Queens College, is successfully utilising ForeScout CounterACT to monitor and manage corporate assets, in addition to connecting devices used by its 5,000 faculty and staff, as well as approximately 20,000 students.   Queens College, a senior college of the City University of New York, initially turned to ForeScout to help protect them against the onslaught of advanced threats and propagating worms, which in the past would infect hundreds...

Marston’s Telecoms is the Internet Service Provider (ISP) arm of the Marston’s Brewery and Pub chain, an independent UK company with over 1,700 pubs that prides itself on providing Real Ale and high quality food in family-friendly pubs. With the rise of always connected customers, the pub chain realized that a new shift was underway. Marston’s addressed this new shift with a focus on two key initiatives: Creating an experience that feels like home and...

ForeScout Technologies has announced that Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge has selected ForeScout CounterACT to ease the roll-out of its bring your own device (BYOD) program.   Providing real-time visibility of what is connected to the network: devices - personal and mobile, applications and users, combined with broad infrastructure interoperability, have helped to increase the security of Long Road’s network, as well as the productivity of the students.   One of the largest colleges...

ViaSat is providing the Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering (DSEME) with encrypted hard drives for 200 Dell laptops, designed to ensure the security of DSEME laptop data, while providing the best possible level of IT performance and making it simple for DSEME to provision computers for trainees.   As the only hardware encryption provider that is CESG-approved to secure top-secret data at rest, ViaSat hard drives will help DSEME educate and deliver competent...

Sevenoaks School in Kent has future-proofed its fixed and wireless network security by installing a new unified threat management (UTM) platform from WatchGuard Technologies.   The school’s WatchGuard XTM 850 gives its students and staff fast, flexible access to a wide range of online activities for teaching, learning, business and leisure, while guarding against cyber threats and potentially risky or inappropriate applications.   Sevenoaks School has a reputation for innovation and harnesses digital technologies to...

ForeScout Technologies has announced that Nottingham Trent University has chosen ForeScout CounterACT to help monitor and mitigate security risks from devices connecting to its wireless network while maintaining end-user ease of use. With over 25,000 students and 2,500 staff spread across three campuses, NTU’s wireless network accommodates about 6,000 active wireless endpoints -- and 10,000 “seen” endpoints -- figures that grow continually as students bring more of their own devices (BYOD), including laptops, smartphones, tablets...