In the construction industry project offices are temporary and need to be quickly set up and easily moved as projects dictate, as well as allowing employees to reach the network from widespread locations. That's why Grocon, one of Australia's leading privately-owned development and construction groups, needed the best SSL VPN appliance option available. Having a very successful history using WatchGuard products, Grocon's IT team was excited to implement the newest SSL appliance the company had to offer. Read more to find out more about the anywhere, anytime secure remote access that Grocon is enjoying with WatchGuard SSL appliances.

Blake Real Estate, a major player in the Washington DC market with several buildings in the commercial business district, needed a network security solution that provided reliable, secure virtual network connections between their widespread locations. By deploying several WatchGuard Firebox X Edge appliances as IPsec VPNs, Blake established a single VoIP telephone system that connected all offices without any of the previous call-quality problems. Read this case study to find out how the solution provided by WatchGuard met Blake's demands and exceeded their expectations by providing a wealth of additional benefits.

Principle in India

Power exchange India ltd

Industry type – public sector

Solution provided – IDC & Managed Hosting: Leased line circuit, Base DNS service, Colocation, Redundant path service

Challenges faced by the customer

• The company wanted to provide an enhanced trading experience to its customers
• PXIL needed scalable, highly available, dynamic and robust IT infrastructure and flexible bandwidth.

Solution provided

• PXIL opted for Netmagic's managed hosting services to provide an enhanced trading experience to its customers

Benefits

• Highly secure, available and carrier neutral IT infrastructure with continuous and maximum uptime for online trading ensured an enhanced trading experience for PXIL’s customers
• Faster turnaround time for any member to go live without compromising on security and speed of transaction
• Enhanced performance levels as a result of burst bandwidth availability.

CUSTOMER – Varun Shipping

YEAR – 2005

SOLUTION PROVIDED – GajShield Security Appliance

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CUSTOMER –
The upsurge in viruses, worms, Trojans and blended attacks was beginning to be causes for concern. Varun Shipping actively started scouting for Security solution for protecting their network from Internet-borne viruses and malicious hacker attacks. Being a growing organization they were looking for a security solution which would not only scale up in terms of security applications but also users.

BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER GAINED –
Varun Shipping implemented GajShield Integrated Security Appliance at the Head office’s Internet Gateway to ward of hackers and protects their network from viruses, spywares etc. Firewall policies were defined to allow access for specific applications from the corporate LAN network to the internet and vice versa. Intrusion Prevention System was deployed to deeply inspect the packets for identifying malicious packets and intrusions. URL Filtering was implemented enabling the IT staff to set and enforce web access policies across an entire network without creating huge hurdles to deployment or maintenance. Client-to-site VPN tunnels were established with depots and for travelling users to allow them access to their emails, Oracle applications, Network share etc.

CUSTOMER – Corporate Information Services, City of Stirling

YEAR – 2006

SOLUTION PROVIDED –
WatchGuard Technologies - Network Security

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CUSTOMER –
The City of Stirling was faced with the challenge of improving the flexibility and responsiveness of information and communication technology (ICT) to the business.
City of Stirling, embarked on modernising the city’s ICT infrastructure and systems which included upgrading the organisation’s WatchGuard firewall infrastructure that, at the time, had been in place for more than seven years.

BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER GAINED –
With seamless deployment and ongoing reliability, they oversees extensive, annual penetration testing of the WatchGuard firewalls.
With the City of Stirling running recreation centres, six libraries, child care facilities, and the usual range of municipal facilities, the IT team leaves nothing to chance and the robust quality of the WatchGuard product has proven its strength year after year.

CUSTOMER – Binh Duong Post Office (BDPO), Vietnam

YEAR – 2010

SOLUTION PROVIDED – WatchGuard Technologies - Network Security

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CUSTOMER –
Vietnam plans to develop a world-class national information communications infrastructure, using optical, broadband, and satellite access across the country. BDPO, with its dispersed workforce of 1,000, operates a massive network, connecting the main post office with smaller outposts located in remote towns and villages across the province.

BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER GAINED –
BDPO was able to immediately recognize the benefits of the easy and intuitive management tools that come with WatchGuard appliances – WatchGuard® System Manager, WatchGuard® Firebox® System Manager, and HostWatch – implementing comprehensive network security for all province offices. Supporting four WAN connections, BDPO was able to use the WatchGuard system across four ADSL internet links, enabling total bandwidth optimization.

CUSTOMER – Varun Shipping

YEAR – 2005

SOLUTION PROVIDED – GajShield Security Appliance

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CUSTOMER –
The upsurge in viruses, worms, Trojans and blended attacks was beginning to be causes for concern. Varun Shipping actively started scouting for Security solution for protecting their network from Internet-borne viruses and malicious hacker attacks. Being a growing organization they were looking for a security solution which would not only scale up in terms of security applications but also users.

BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER GAINED –
Varun Shipping implemented GajShield Integrated Security Appliance at the Head office’s Internet Gateway to ward of hackers and protects their network from viruses, spywares etc. Firewall policies were defined to allow access for specific applications from the corporate LAN network to the internet and vice versa. Intrusion Prevention System was deployed to deeply inspect the packets for identifying malicious packets and intrusions. URL Filtering was implemented enabling the IT staff to set and enforce web access policies across an entire network without creating huge hurdles to deployment or maintenance. Client-to-site VPN tunnels were established with depots and for travelling users to allow them access to their emails, Oracle applications, Network share etc.

CUSTOMER – Corporate Information Services, City of Stirling

YEAR – 2006

SOLUTION PROVIDED –
WatchGuard Technologies - Network Security

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CUSTOMER –
The City of Stirling was faced with the challenge of improving the flexibility and responsiveness of information and communication technology (ICT) to the business.
City of Stirling, embarked on modernising the city’s ICT infrastructure and systems which included upgrading the organisation’s WatchGuard firewall infrastructure that, at the time, had been in place for more than seven years.

BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER GAINED –
With seamless deployment and ongoing reliability, they oversees extensive, annual penetration testing of the WatchGuard firewalls.
With the City of Stirling running recreation centres, six libraries, child care facilities, and the usual range of municipal facilities, the IT team leaves nothing to chance and the robust quality of the WatchGuard product has proven its strength year after year.

CUSTOMER – Binh Duong Post Office (BDPO), Vietnam

YEAR – 2010

SOLUTION PROVIDED – WatchGuard Technologies - Network Security

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CUSTOMER –
Vietnam plans to develop a world-class national information communications infrastructure, using optical, broadband, and satellite access across the country. BDPO, with its dispersed workforce of 1,000, operates a massive network, connecting the main post office with smaller outposts located in remote towns and villages across the province.

BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER GAINED –
BDPO was able to immediately recognize the benefits of the easy and intuitive management tools that come with WatchGuard appliances – WatchGuard® System Manager, WatchGuard® Firebox® System Manager, and HostWatch – implementing comprehensive network security for all province offices. Supporting four WAN connections, BDPO was able to use the WatchGuard system across four ADSL internet links, enabling total bandwidth optimization.

CUSTOMER – Central Electronics Limited

YEAR– 2011

SOLUTION PROVIDED –
WatchGuard Firewall
Quantity: 1

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CUSTOMER –
Central Electronics Limited is a Union Government owned engineering company based in India. They required a network security solution that would enable reliable and safe connectivity for all appliances on the network. Operators and employees inside the company, as well as administrators of the technical equipment needed a secure Internet connection. Additionally, all visitors and guests also require reliable, secure Wi-Fi access. Maximum security of the entire network was critical.

BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER GAINED –
Central Electronics Limited was able to immediately recognize the benefits of the easy and intuitive management tools that come with WatchGuard appliances – implementing comprehensive network security.
Benefits are:

• Provided effective network-wide security with seamless management.
• Provided intelligent, layered security for advanced networking and traffic-management capabilities, as well as simplified network configurability and administration.
• Centralized and easy-to-use manage.
• Secure platform, flexible and scalable.