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Denbighshire County Council Leverages Eventia Suite for Enhanced Security Management

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Networks & Connectivity - Gateways

Applicable Industries

Electrical Grids
National Security & Defense

Use Cases

Inventory Management
Tamper Detection

Services

System Integration

About The Customer

Denbighshire County Council is a local government body in North Wales, United Kingdom. It serves a local population of 93,000 and is responsible for providing and supporting leased-line Internet access for 66 primary and secondary schools across the county, as well as Internet services within the County’s local libraries. In addition to these services, the council also maintains its own internal network. The council’s IT team is tasked with managing web access for this diverse range of users, ensuring close control over IT security to protect against threats and attacks from multiple endpoints.

The Challenge

Denbighshire County Council, serving a local population of 93,000 in North Wales, UK, was faced with the challenge of managing web access for a diverse range of users. This included providing and supporting leased-line Internet access for 66 primary and secondary schools across the county, as well as Internet services within the County’s local libraries, in addition to maintaining the Council’s own internal network. The council’s IT team was tasked with the daunting task of sorting through the massive volumes of log data produced by its security and network devices every day. Converting millions of data logs from multiple sources into usable, actionable information was proving to be an insurmountable task for the small IT team. This not only made it difficult to perform security checks or spot emerging attacks or vulnerabilities systematically, but also diverted the IT team’s resources away from other important network management tasks.

The Solution

The council’s IT team turned to Check Point’s Eventia Suite to simplify their security management. As a long-time Check Point customer, the council already had a substantial standing investment in VPN-1 technology, with two Nokia IP security platforms each running VPN-1 Power NGX R65. These provided comprehensive security and remote connectivity, and defended against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on the council’s main 100MB Internet link, its corporate network and the leased-line connections serving each school and library. With Eventia Analyzer, the council was able to correlate log data from the Check Point VPN-1 Power solutions, and from third-party security devices, automatically prioritizing security events for decisive, intelligent action. The Eventia Analyzer also helped the council’s IT team make detailed inspections of network traffic patterns and device logs easily, and gave the ability to identify issues or threats that may not have been otherwise detected.

Operational Impact

The implementation of Check Point’s Eventia Suite has brought about significant operational benefits for Denbighshire County Council. The solution has not only simplified the council’s security management but also saved valuable time for the IT team by automating the aggregation and correlation of raw logs. This has allowed the team to focus on other important network management tasks. The Eventia Analyzer has also enhanced the council’s ability to perform detailed inspections of network traffic patterns and device logs, enabling them to identify issues or threats that may not have been otherwise detected. Furthermore, the council is now able to respond with greater precision to new threats, thanks to the Eventia Analyzer. The council is also planning to upgrade its VPN-1 Power firewalls to extend remote connectivity and security features, confident that the combination of VPN-1 and Eventia Suite provides a future-proofed, centrally managed security infrastructure that can quickly adapt and respond to its changing needs.

Quantitative Benefit