Central Florida Educators Federal Credit Union Switches to PowerBroker Endpoint Protection Platform
Company Size
200-1,000
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- PowerBroker Endpoint Protection Platform
Tech Stack
- Endpoint Security
- Zero-day protection
- Centralized security management
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
The Central Florida Educators Federal Credit Union (CFE) is a financial institution headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida. It has 16 branches across Central Florida and serves a large number of customers. Each branch has 15 plus workstations that connect back to servers at the CFE headquarters in Lake Mary. The organization has a small IT staff and is in the process of rolling out a desktop virtualization effort. At one of CFE’s smaller branches, they have already installed dumb terminals connected back to hosted desktops. The organization has over 700 end nodes and 100 servers. They are transitioning to desktop virtualization along with dumb terminals at several branch locations. The key IT challenge for them is finding an integrated security suite that protects robust endpoints, such as workstations, while protecting servers and virtualized computing environments.
The Challenge
The Central Florida Educators Federal Credit Union (CFE) was having problems with its endpoint security. Their existing endpoint security from Symantec was causing problems. First, CFE end users noticed that their machines were increasingly slow. A quick check of the Task Manager showed high CPU usage tied to Symantec. Next, when the software was updated, old installations often failed to uninstall and created software conflicts, with many unrelated applications failing to work. Finally, Symantec burdened end users with alerts and false alarms. For a small IT staff, these constant problems took too much time away from other IT projects. For instance, CFE is in the process of rolling out a desktop virtualization effort. At one of CFE’s smaller branches, they have already installed dumb terminals connected back to hosted desktops, but constant security troubleshooting has kept them from being as far along on this project as they would like.
The Solution
CFE decided to switch to BeyondTrust’s PowerBroker Endpoint Protection Platform (PB EPP). BeyondTrust’s PowerBroker EPP is a comprehensive security suite that was able to offer everything CFE was looking for: zero-day protection, centralized and behavior-based management, rather than signature-based, protection – all at a much lower price than competing solutions. PowerBroker EPP protects client devices by identifying behaviors, not signatures. Offering integrated multi-layered endpoint protection, PowerBroker EPP is a single, lightweight client that replaces multiple security agents, protecting against known exploits, zero-day attacks, and all other attack vectors. PowerBroker EPP also leverages a host-based intrusion prevention engine that dynamically collects and incorporates new threat data in real-time. This protection gives IT professionals the ability to prioritize the vulnerabilities that require the most immediate action and the confidence that endpoints are protected until patching is completed.
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