security applications in case studies
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist Mimecast to manage its Microsoft Exchange and Outlook applications. Security benefits have included the retention of data in the UK - something clients were keen for - and... [15 Jul 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, launched in January 2007, has had a mixed reaction from pundits and potential customers and there is still a strong inclination among the company's user base to cling on to older iterations of Windows... [30 May 2008]
Paymaster saves £300k with mainframe move
Case Study Paymaster used Micro Focus application modernisation technology to move its core legacy applications from a Trimetra mainframe to a Windows server environment, after Fujitsu announced its plans to withdraw support for its Trimetra mainframe line... [08 May 2007]
Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge
Case Study Martin Gill, head of new media at Comic Relief, told silicon.com: "All those things - supporting what [the users are] doing, doing our own stuff or giving them applications where they can provide a bit of information about themselves and get tools... [15 Mar 2007]
Home working plan reduces disaster risk for Apacs
Case Study They all use security tokens, user IDs and passwords to log in. A couple of our services are available from web-based applications. We can get at our email but if we want to get at files we use the security tokens as a secure means to get in. [08 Aug 2006]
What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?
Case Study For example, BlackBerry security applications for "execs [who] lose them like candy" and mobile server administration were among the first to get pushed out to users. Morning said: "We started to approach BlackBerry applications with small, quick... [17 May 2006]
Insurer monitors staff use of PCs
Case Study Insurer Royal London is testing security software which could allow its IT security team to monitor staff use of PCs. Royal London has so far installed 3ami's Monitoring and Audit System (MAS) on a small number of machines used by the company's... [07 Mar 2006]
Security company puts BlackBerrys on patrol
Case Study Security firm Securiplan has rolled out BlackBerrys to boost the productivity of its senior management. Melcer said: "The mobile applications we are developing in house are the most important thing. The company, which has 4,000 staff in 1,200 sites... [19 Oct 2005]
Wireless prescription helps doctors speed up treatment
Case Study But the group of hospitals has much grander plans than this: it is working with some Citrix technology that will enable legacy client-server applications to be delivered to PDAs. Duffy said: "We get the feeling that more and more applications are... [06 Oct 2005]
Stockbroker cuts paper chase with online ID check
Case Study Stockbroker TD Waterhouse has cut the time it takes to run security checks on new customers from 10 days to just 20 minutes. The stockbroker receives up to 1,250 new applications each day. As a result customers can be doing business with the... [28 Jul 2005]
Labour Party secures VPN from hackers
Case Study The tool enables secure web-based access to internal applications and files from any browser. Robinson added: "The reason they went for the Whale solution was because it has a strong sense of security. [25 Jul 2005]
Bank replaces desktops with PC blades
Case Study The PCs were getting on for five or six years old and we were on or below minimum spec for some of our third-party applications including key market data products. Because there is no Ethernet signal going out to the desk, no one can come and plug... [30 Jun 2005]
Royal Mail tightens hacker defences
Case Study The Royal Mail is tightening security practices by sweeping its networks for vulnerabilities on a weekly basis. The postal service, which is starting to use more web-based business processes, has outsourced vulnerability and penetration testing to... [14 Jun 2005]
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