The Institute of Directors (IoD) hasreduced its IT management overheadsby
consolidating its security infrastructure onto a single
server.
The Institute of Directors replaced multiple Linux-based proxy
servers with a Vital Security Web Appliance NG-1100 from
Finjan.
Richard Swann, IT infrastructure manager at the IoD, said the
organisation, which has 350 staff nationwide, needed to
consolidate to improve security and save time and money. He
said that previously security took up 30% of the time of a
dedicated member of the IT team.
Swann added that different users within the IoD required
different
access rights and controlling this was difficult. "We wanted
more control but we did not want different servers for each
department," he said.
The new system enables separate usage policies to be set for
different groups. Swann said this was straightforward.
"We just observed people's network activity and automatically
generated the policies," he said.
The IT department controls security policies through the
appliance's management interface. One benefit of this is that
directors visiting the IoD can be easily set-up to use the
institute's Wi-Fi wireless network with limited access rights.
With one appliance controlling security, the IT team needed to
ensure a back-up plan in case the system failed. "We have another
box, which is not online and configured, but to which it would not
take long to transfer policies," said Swann.
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