International planning, management and design consultancy
Halcrow has saved 10 days a month in administration time by
implementing a
web filtering service.
The company has 70 offices around the world and provides
consultancy services on infrastructure projects including London's
Crossrail project.
Neil Innes, Halcrow's management information services
architecture and planning manager, said outsourcing web filtering
would take associated hardware and software off-site as well as
enable junior staff to handle any system changes using a web
interface.
Innes said the rising use of the web and malware attacks had
made content filtering a priority for Halcrow.
"Creating a wider
security perimeter using an 'in the cloud' service prevents
malware from getting anywhere near our network, which is an
important security concept," he said.
Innes said the management capabilities enabled by the service
had virtually eliminated the need to investigate malware
incidents.
"Our security manager was previously dealing with up to 50
investigations a year taking two days each, so this is potentially
saving us 100 days a year," he said.
Halcrow chose to implement the web filtering system as a service
to avoid the cost of deploying hardware and software to every
site.
Innes said the company had chosen software-as-a-service provider
ScanSafe because of its compatibility with Halcrow's existing IT
architecture.