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4imprint
The Comfort Factor
Prior to 2002, 4imprint's network was protected by a single Cisco firewall, but Group IT Manager John Gaskell felt that overall security could be improved, thereby enhancing what he terms the comfort factor. Gaskell also felt it important to address the issue of availability of in and out-bound Internet access, across the two ISPs in use by 4imprint, but had no idea how this could be achieved. That was before he spoke to Stonesoft!
Ahorro
Banking on Reliable Security
When Spanish financial institution Ahorro couldn't live with the poor performance of its existing firewall any longer, they turned to Stonesoft's firewall and VPN solution to solve the problem.
Cegedim
Besides a reinforced security policy, StoneGate of Stonesoft offers fast ROI as well as reduced management costs
Jouve
Jouve relies on StoneGate product’s high-level quality to restructure its network architecture.
The North Cheshire Hospitals Trust
NHS Trust adds true resilience to a security infrastructure covering multiple acute hospital sites, by adding Stonesoft’s clustered firewall and end-to-end centralised management system
AIT Worldwide Logistics
StoneGate Multi-Link™ Delivers Significant ROI
AIT Worldwide Logistics needed a better networking solution to ensure optimal, always-on Internet
connections for its global operations to run as efficiently as possible. After evaluating several
vendors, the company chose to implement the StoneGate Firewall/VPN solution with Multi-Link™
technology.
AIT immediately saw a return of investment (ROI) with $1,400 a month in savings per service center and $33,000 a month at its headquarters in Itasca.
Astech Solutions Inc.
Secure Server Consolidation Simplifies Collaboration Services
ASTECH embarked on a strategic initiative to improve its collaborative capability. As a result, the company sought to upgrade its infrastructure from a hosted environment using random Microsoft products to an internally managed one, based on consolidated IBM iSeries servers running Linux. This effort included upgrading its Cisco PIX firewall to StoneGate to increase control, reliability, security and manageability.
"Now, Stonesoft not only acts as a firewall and VPN, but also manages load balancing, so that all Internet requests are spread evenly between the two connections, effectively giving us double our bandwidth."
Bankpime
Stonesoft delivers the highest levels of reliability and availability for banking organisations specialising in individuals, families and SMBs
Bankpime needed a security system that would guarantee the reliability, accuracy and availability of both its data and financial operations.
“We chose Stonesoft not only for its cutting-edge technology, but also for its in-depth knowledge of the security needs of a company such as ours. This knowledge has solved and alleviated many of the problems we suffered previously.”Read the case study in Spanish (PDF)
Cadena SER
Stonesoft StoneGate cluster shields the communications of Cadena SER’s radio network
Reliable communications are crucial to the smooth functioning of Cadena SER radio, a network of
radio stations grouped under the umbrella of Unión Radio.
Cadena SER’s new StoneGate solution integrates an operating system developed by Stonesoft which is based on Linux and is preconfigured with all the required applications. In this way, communications management across the network has become much easier, and when it comes to maintenance and updates, the group’s IT department can be guaranteed that there will be no longer be any conflicts with third-party products.
Carte Bleue
Stonesoft Assures Secure Information Flow and Business Continuity for Carte Bleue Web Services
One of the imperatives for
Carte Bleue is to deliver a continuity of service through the high availability of its
network framework. This demand goes hand-in-hand with transparency of actions and activities.
Carte Bleue also has a duty to guarantee access 24/7 - as well as assuring a strong
infrastructure network with a guaranteed recovery time of less than four hours.
CFDT relies on Stonesoft to Secure its Network
Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail
With over 800,000 members, The CFDT (Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail) is one of
France’s largest and oldest trade union confederations. The organization has an extensive computing
infrastructure and network, which brings a number of network control and management issues. To
secure the entire network, CFDT required a reliable, best-in-class solution that was scalable,
cost-efficient and easy to use and to configure.
The CFDT was fully satisfied with the Stonesoft solutions, which met its needs for protection, accessibility and centralized management of the distributed network.
“The platform’s attractive maintenance costs and manageability were strong arguments for selecting Stonesoft products. In addition, Stonesoft’s technical and support teams are always ready to step in with support and assistance."
- Mr. Alain Chetboun, IT Director of CFDT
Read the case study in French:
La CFDT fait appel à Stonesoft pour sécuriser son réseau
CGAE
Security for lawyers in the 21st century
Since 2003, the General Council of Spanish Lawyers (CGAE) has been developing a groundbreaking
technological project called ‘Legal Profession IT’ which is updating and optimising the legal
profession to make the justice system more accessible for Spanish citizens.
To date, 150,000 solicitors have been able to carry out their legal duties online using a digital certificate. The success of the technological project for the legal profession has exceeded all expectations to date, and has promoted a series of meetings with international legal authorities, such as the CCBE (Council of Bars and Law societies of Europe), in order to propose a certification model to be used in issuing European lawyer ID cards, as well as encounters with the Law Society of Scotland and the International Bar Association.
”Stonesoft’s products are considered to be among the best solutions available today for a project such as ours", says Eduardo Infantes, CGAE Operations Manager.
Case Study CGAE in Spanish: Seguridad para los abogados del siglo XXI (PDF)
CIE
A Matter of State Security
To meet the requirements of their rapidly growing network infrastructure, CIE (Centre Informatique de l'Etat) needed a better firewall solution.
"With StoneGate, the exact same changes in the network now happen five to six times faster. In fact, when we are onsite installing a new StoneGate, the hardest and most time consuming job is actually taking the hardware out of the box and putting it in the rack!!"
Commerce Media
Protecting The Public Face
"As a host we absolutely cannot let our systems fail, because unnecessary downtime would have
repercussions for all the customers that trust us with their business."
StoneGate Ensures Always-on Business Connectivity for Global Operations
Case Study: Conyers Dill & Pearman
Conyers Dill & Pearman, a Bermuda-based law firm, needed a superior networking solution to
ensure continuous business uptime and minimize the difficulties of managing a complex distributed
network. This was essential to maintaining the firm’s global productivity, especially in remote
places.
After evaluating several solutions, the company chose to cluster and deploy the StoneGate firewall/VPN solution with Multi-Link™ technology to guarantee seamless ISP and device failover, maintain always-on connectivity across its branch locations despite ISP downtime, device outages or inclement weather, and enhance network performance.
Conyers Dill & Pearman experienced immediate benefits by clustering the StoneGate firewall/VPN solution at each location, remotely managing network security updates from headquarters and reducing scheduled maintenance windows, which significantly reduced overall IT costs.
De`Longhi
Reducing Costs And Exceeding Goals
Maintaining highly available VPN connections at acceptable levels of network performance were important objectives for the De`Longhi Group. To achieve these objectives with traditional solutions would have added technology complexity and costs to network management budget. The StoneGate solution, with its patented Multi-Link™ technology, not only enabled the De`Longhi Group to achieve its objectives; it also reduced the costs of administration and accelerated return on investment.
E-Services is a global services company that is part of the De`Longhi Group. E-Services provides services ranging from application administration and maintenance to network connectivity and logical security from its datacenter in Treviso, Italy.
Dundee City Council
Dundee City Council chooses StoneGate for unrivalled redundancy
Major Scottish local authority builds greater resilience and reliability into its security infrastructure and wide area network connections by deploying Stonesoft’s innovative Multi-Link technology.
“Prior to installing Stonesoft StoneGate, we already understood
the importance of having a high-quality firewall in place, but after installing StoneGate we gained
the multi-link capability we were looking for.”
East Lothian Council
Local Government Authority selects StoneGate™ to secure and centrally manage education systems
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Lothian Council is responsible for all local government services within the county of East Council,
with a population of 90,000, and is by far the largest employer in the area, with over 4,600
employees.
A key function of the Council is to provide local education services for its 41 schools ranging from preschool through to primary and secondary schools. As with all local authorities, ensuring the security of educational systems is a high priority. This includes making sure the information within the systems remains confidential and also providing peace of mind for parents and carers – knowing that wherever possible information young people are able to access is suitable and appropriate.
With this in mind, the IT Division at East Lothian Council had specific requirements when it came to looking for a security solution that could enforce the levels of security required within the education department.
EET
Easy, Remote Management for European Wide Network
As an IT-distributor, EET was familiar with many firewall solutions and this time they knew exactly what they were looking for: a secure firewall and VPN solution for multiple VPNs, easy and cost effective management of their geographically distributed network, high availability of their business critical network and the flexibility of a solution which can grow and change according to future needs.
EET's corporate network is vital to company operations. As the network grew, security management was becoming a problem. StoneGate provided security, availability, and load balancing with simpler management.
eGesso
eGesso Succeeds with Security and Accessibility
eGesso's extensive decision support and on-line extranet services extend to a vast network of
wholesale insurance brokerages to facilitate reinsurance, policy issuance and overall risk
management. These activities involve the sharing of extremely sensitive and valuable information,
making authentication of the individuals and companies accessing it absolutely critical. As an
outsourced service, high availability of the information is equally critical; unavailability of
eGesso's service would bring scores of businesses to a screeching halt.
Escambia County Sheriff’s Department
Stonesoft meets rigorous network demands
- Mac Magruder, deputy sheriff and MIS director for the Escambia County, Florida Sheriff's Office
FastWeb
Fast, Scalable, Secure Internet & Video Communications
StoneGate Firewall/VPN solution will be installed at FastWeb's customers' sites to secure different types of applications: from simple, fast Internet connectivity to leading edge video communications and video on-demand applications.
Fastweb needed a firewall that it could deploy to potentially thousands of customer locations. The size of the deployment meant ease of installation and management was key to the project's success. After benchmarking several solutions, Fastweb chose StoneGate as the only solution that could be adapted to all their customers' needs.
Feta
Transferring Security Confidence
As part of their proactive security policy, First European Transfer Agency chose StoneGate to give added security confidence.
Technology is one of the key defining features in the succesfull operation of fund servicing. As such, leading international transfer agency, FETA is committed to developing and upgrading its system architecture to ensure that it can cater for new developments in the industry.
FETA already knew of Stonesoft, from their positive experiences with the StoneBeat high availability and load balancing solution, and included StoneGate in their evaluation of the number of firewall products.
Grace Church School
StoneGate Ensures Always-on Network Connectivity
As a school with a strong technology education program, network reliability is core to Grace Church
School’s ability to provide students with an engaging learning process. After evaluating several
alternatives, the school chose to cluster two StoneGate™ firewall/VPN appliances with its
Multi-Link™ technology, featuring failover capabilities for Internet redundancy.
Download the Grace Church School Case Study in letter format (PDF)
Grant Joint Union
StoneGate Meets the Security and Availability Demands of Expansive Network to Improve Education
Grant Joint Union High School District based in Sacramento, California supports an expansive
network of educational sites ranging from junior high schools to adult education centers.
Recognized for its innovation, Grant Joint Union has been at the forefront of using technology to
enhance communications and learning for students, teachers and parents.
After deploying the StoneGate solutions, the district was able to immediately eliminate multiple products, reduce network downtime and decrease IT costs. The district also significantly improved its efficiency in managing and updating its expansive network.
Grupo Posadas
Latin America's Top Hotel Operator Takes Guest Service to the Next Level
Posadas realized that with their ambitions to grow rapidly and provide superior guest services,
they needed a more flexible VPN solution to support connectivity and communication. Their existing
firewall and VPN solution wasn't getting the job done.
Hamburg Süd
Multi-Linking Worldwide Marine Transport and Logistics
"The basic installation of StoneGate was very easy. The operating system is based on hardened Linux
and came on a CD, which was simple to install on our existing hardware. The whole system was
installed and configured within hours", says the Manager of Systems & Production.
The Institute of Marketing
In a school with 11,000 e-learning students, network security is key
In Finland, the success of the Institute of Marketing is based on continuous renewal, development
and a pioneering spirit. Its 11,000 students are working in one of the most advanced e-learning
environments possible. However, using the Internet as the main channel and tool for studies does
set unique challenges for network security and administration to meet.
“ The new system needed to be reliable and easy to use. We also wanted a system that would not cause any breaks in network traffic and it had to be capable of operating in environments where all servers are not under the same roof,” recalls Jussi Pesonen, System Manager at MDC Group.
Download The Institute of Marketing Case Study in Finnish (PDF)
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA
Stonesoft Assures Secure Information Flow for Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Stonesoft’s StoneGate security and business continuity platform has been selected by the Istituto
Superiore di Sanità (Italian Health Institute) to create security architecture capable of providing
the organisation with a high level of protection at extremely low management costs, while
delivering effective security governance together with a maximum ROI.
Read the case study in Italian (PDF)
Jiangmen Education Network System
Jiangmen Education Network System Protects User Access with StoneGate
For networks like Jiangmen Education Network System that require high bandwidth, load balancing
between multiple ISP connections, highly reliable VPN with multiple ISP connections and highly
scalable firewalls, StoneGate's high availability firewall and VPN solution is the right choice.
KWH Pipe
StoneGate Multi-Link™ secures the network connections of KWH Pipe
KWH Pipe is one of the world leaders in the production and development of plastic pipe systems with
production units in Europe, Southeast Asia and North America. The traditional family company relies
on Stonesoft’s experience in securing their network connections.
Read the Case Study in Finnish (PDF)
MedicAlert
StoneGate Advances Patient Safety Through E-health
When Canadian MedicAlert launched its online portal and electronic Personal Health Record in 2005,
the organization required a solution that could ensure constant network access. The IT staff was
tasked with selecting a network security platform that met stringent specifications. After
MedicAlert evaluated Stonesoft’s products, the team was immediately impressed with the
comprehensive design of the StoneGate Platform, including Firewall, VPN and IPS. Stonesoft’s
Multi-Link™ technology eliminated the need for MedicAlert to install a costly and complex Border
Gateway Protocol (BGP) setup as the technology also supports continuous, dual-ISP connectivity from
within the integrated Firewall/VPN. In the end, MedicAlert deployed Stonesoft’s Firewall/VPN and
IPS appliances to support its security and network redundancy needs and to advance its e-health
member services.
PDX.com
PDX.com Sdn Bhd Provides eGovernment Services With StoneGate
Plaza Construction
Hard Hats and VPNs
StoneGate Multi-Link™ Ensures Indestructible Connectivity
As the largest construction management organization in the New York metropolitan area, Plaza Construction’s business and reputation rely on its ability to maintain constant data communications from its remote construction sites to its headquarters in midtown New York City. In this rugged on-site construction environment, communication lines are frequently cut or moved causing potential lapses in connectivity with client-server based business applications. Most companies are concerned about downtime from lost data communications, but at a construction site it is not a matter of if it will happen, but when it will happen.In the construction management business, on-site change management and delivery changes directly affect cost and budget management. Time is literally money and downtime costs can be huge.
Porter Novelli
Secure information flow for Porter Novelli Public Relations
European IT Director Mark Litton explains how Porter Novelli reduced maintenance costs and time
spent performing system upgrades by implementing Stonesoft’s StoneGate Firewall Cluster and Virtual
Private Network.
“The StoneGate Platform provides the same high levels of security but is easier to manage over multiple locations.”
ProPlus
Enterprise Class Firewall/VPN Security Offered as a Subscription Service
The Most Flexible Security Architecture for Small Businesses
Caught between the need for advanced network protection and the costs of purchasing and maintaining these systems, small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) often find their level of protection compromised. SMBs are increasingly turning to outsource managed services for optimum security at affordable monthly rates.
Using Stonesoft's StoneGate to deliver 24x7 managed firewall security, ProPlus makes enterprise-class protection and virtual private networking affordable to smaller organizations.
Realex Payments
Real World Security for Real Time Finance
Realex Payments houses its application data and its firewall at separate hosting facilities, which are then managed via a VPN connection from its head office in Dublin. Before going live, the company had to not only prepare the infrastructure but also gain accreditation from various financial institutions in order to be classified as a ‘data processor’ and be permitted to handle the data. Because the quality of the IT security systems deployed by Realex was critical to being awarded and retaining this certification, it quickly became clear that Realex needed a highly-effective enterprise-level firewall with powerful administrative and functional features.
"Selecting a firewall is usually a trade off between functionality and ease of use. We believe that StoneGate offers a good balance between these. The more recent addition of the Stonesoft IPS product combined with this firewalling capability has become an important part of the armoury required to ensure that our data remains secure, confidential, and integral."
Red Folder
Red Folder Gains a Competitive Edge with StoneGate
Since its inception, Red Folder has been doubling its business each year. However, in order to keep
pace with rapid growth and support the specific needs of its growing customer base Red Folder
needed to get the right technology infrastructure in place.
" Bottom line – with Stonesoft and the StoneGate solution we know that we’re positioned to keep growing our business and stay ahead of the technology curve."
Rouen University Hospital
The Rouen University Hospital calls on Stonesoft’s expertise to secure its IT infrastructure
To ensure the security of data exchanges between its various institutions, the Rouen CHU selected Stonesoft.
We were extremely impressed by the wide array of features included in Stonesoft’s StoneGate solution.Once the selection stage was completed, we put the Stonesoft solution directly into production to secure the production site and the entire network serving the various institutions of which the Rouen CHU is comprised. It is very easy to use, and it met our needs without straining our budget.
RTC
Firewall High Availability-Securing Swiss e-Banking
"If you are thinking about moving from a legacy firewall, I believe that StoneGate provides the best 'bullet proof' migration scenario from any other firewall product."
To help banks and finance institutions to keep breast of the latest IT technology, RTC AG (Real- Time Center), IT outsourcing and banking software specialists have developed IBIS, an applications platform which allows end users to manage and process various IT products and services.
RTC was already a satisfied user of StoneBeat load balancing and high availability software and as this was an integral part of the StoneGate firewall and VPN solution they were keen to put it to the test.
RWTH Aachen
The computing and communication centre at RWTH Aachen is the central hub and pivotal point for the university’s IT services. It is responsible for providing services, user support and most important, for ensuring security. As the first fortress against attack, RWTH has particularly rigorous demands when it comes to issues of security and performance.
By the end of 2004, it was clear to RWTH that the existing firewall solution could no longer be upgraded effectively.
Sapphire: Pickerings Lifts
StoneGate VPN Lifts Performance of Pickerings Network
Pickerings Lifts were encountering severe network traffic congestion within their infrastructure. Pickerings infrastructure consisted of seven remote offices around the UK with a head office in Cleveland using a 64kbit/sec leased line wide area network.
Security Consultancy Sapphire put a plan together to replace their network with a solution based on StoneGate Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology from Stonesoft Corporation. This provided a direct return on investment by harnessing the public Internet, whilst using higher capacity 512kbit/sec ADSL lines to ensure high availability and resilience. The StoneGate solution offered central management and a powerful intrusion prevention system, and dramatically reduced Pickerings overall networking costs.
Si.mobil
Everywhere Like At Home
A mobile operator takes advantage of StoneGate's flexibility to deliver a unique service.
"By using a standard VPN solution across the GPRS network a 'data loss' of up to 40% could be devastating for our customers. We needed a solution that would not only secure the VPN but would assist with performance rather than be a drain on it."
Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
One of the Leading Litigation Firms Brings Security Solution In-house
StoneGate helps Susman Godfrey provide better customer service and offers a competitive edge and reduced IT costs with highly available, secure platform.
Winning is constantly top-of-mind for Susman Godfrey lawyers due to a pay structure where compensation often depends on their performance. Susman Godfrey devotes approximately 60 % of their time to litigation under agreements that tie compensation to the results they achieve. Working at their own risk and expense requires that the lawyers have efficient work habits while maintaining the highest-quality of service. Susman Godfrey cannot afford to have any downtime or missed deadlines because of network issues.
Swisscom Mobile
Swisscom Mobile turns to Stonesoft for scalable high availability firewalls
To master the growing demands of protecting their computers against unauthorized
access,
Swisscom Mobile,
Switzerland's #1 supplier of mobile telecommunication solutions, uses a
system based on a multi-layer security zone architecture. Within this architecture, the individual
areas are protected by fully independently working firewalls. Of these, the main firewalls include
StoneGate, a system delivered by the Finnish security expert Stonesoft.
TCCT
Exceeding Expectations - A simple solution to a complex challenge
"With another solution on proprietary or Unix platforms, we would have paid more also for the maintenance of these platforms. Even with 24x7 support on the Intel platform, it is cheaper to maintain. With StoneGate our return on investment is 20 % faster, than it would have been with the other solutions tested..."
As their number of customers grew and network traffic increased, it became apparent to TCCT that they needed a more robust firewall solution to reinforce their security defense, to handle the high volumes of traffic and maintain the company's promise of a high service commitment level.
"StoneGate firewall is our preferred solution for our future needs of firewall and VPN."
The Province of Avellino
The Province of Avellino, an agricultural and light-manufacturing centre that has retained much of
its medieval architectural charm, is one of five provinces in the southern Italian region of
Campania. In 2004, "Provincia di Avellino" issued a public tender to develop a technological
solution integrating all existing web-based applications into a unified architecture, protecting
the system from threats, intrusions, and unauthorised access attempts to information on the system
itself.
Read the case study in Italian:
Caso Applicativo - Provincia di Avellino (PDF)
Thirteen
On-Air and Online
StoneGate Ensures Business Continuity for Flagship PBS Station
With over 40 years on the air and the largest membership of any PBS station, Thirteen/WNET New York has become an integral part of the American landscape. In all, Thirteen's productions reach nearly 200 million viewers annually.
As a company with a public profile, business continuity is important to Thirteen. It has found the StoneGate high availability firewall to deliver as promised.
"With our previous solution there were always hiccups. We've found StoneGate to be very stable and the Stonesoft technical staff to be responsive to our needs. It's a good working relationship."
COSMSI
Ensuring a Secure and Reliable Network
The Organizing Committee of the World Summit on the Information Society (COSMSI) turned to
Stonesoft in order to handle this complex challenge and to give confidence to the remarkable event.“The flexibility of the StoneGate Platform adapted to the intermittent changes in the needs and was very reliable.“