Wise Business Forms Implements StoneGate Firewall/VPN Solution

Wise Business Forms (Wise), a print manufacturer has implemented Stonesoft’s StoneGate Firewall/VPN solution in a bid to optimize network performance and security at significant savings.

 

Stonesoft Corporation is a provider of integrated network security solutions to secure the information flow of distributed organizations. The StoneGate Secure Connectivity Solution unifies firewall, VPN, IPS and SSL VPN blending network security, end-to-end availability and load balancing into a unified and centrally managed system. Wise provides customers with business forms, commercial printing, document services, and marketing services for resale.

 

Officials say StoneGate solution is a strong choice for many network security administrators since it provides them with Comprehensive security with high-end technology; Business Continuity with High Availability and Reduced costs with Unified management.

 

Stonesoft was the first company to model a Highly Available (HA) distributed firewall and VPN architecture. Officials explain that VPN is really just a special type of firewall that secures the traffic between two endpoints, it only makes sense that they work together. StoneGate High Availability Firewall and VPN manage to circumvent the single point of failure problem which occurs when both VPN and firewall are deployed, by creating multiple firewall engines that act as failover devices.

 

Wise was using MPLS network for communications between different office locations and managing all around printing requests and sustain internal server communications such as email, FTP and file sharing. They experienced system downtime and slow internet speeds. The company desperately needed to eliminate the network failures and increase its network bandwidth allotment to sustain customer satisfaction and further company growth.

 

"It was very time consuming and expensive for Wise to maintain Internet uptime without centralized network integration or traffic monitoring capabilities," said Marc Picardo, director of Information Technologies for Wise. "The connection disruptions and bandwidth limitations were severely threatening our ability to conduct business in a timely manner. With the StoneGate solution in place, our connection speed has dramatically increased and that has led to better overall productivity and customer satisfaction."

 

Keeping the future infrastructure expansion in mind Wise also sought to purchase network security solutions that would integrate the disparate networks and ensure high availability with increased bandwidth. They found StoneGate solution to cater all their needs. It provided secure office-to-office connections with its multiple parallel ISP connections. It offered the company automatic failover and bandwidth capacities through which they could carry out error free data center relocation process. Additionally, the deep packet inspection capabilities in the StoneGate firewalls enabled Wise to immediately thwart all malicious network attacks.

 

"Particularly in today's economic climate, organizations are looking for new ways to streamline IT costs without sacrificing network uptime or security," said Paul Johnson, President of Stonesoft Inc. "We're extremely pleased that Stonesoft's innovative technologies are not only helping our customers save substantially, but also optimizing their networks so they work better than ever before. For Wise, the result is helping them deliver faster and secure order fulfillment - leading to new sales and increased customer satisfaction."