Case Studies
Hillary Blinds
Hillarys Blinds is the largest manufacturer of made-to-measure window blinds in the UK and has a turnover in excess of £90 million. In addition to its Hillarys brand, the Hillarys Group comprises a B2B trade channel, Arena, and several online brands, including web-blinds.com.
Every week Hillarys Blinds processes more than 6,000 orders and makes nearly 30,000 blinds. Hillarys Blinds employs more than 1,000 full-time staff across its three sites in Nottingham and Washington Tyne and Wear; and also retains a UK network of 1,000 self-employed sales advisors.
Charnwood Borough Council
Like many organisations, CBC was using a number of different security technologies to protect itself against the burgeoning myriad of online threats. For example, it outsourced its firewall, VPN, email filtering and web filtering security to separate companies. However, CBC discovered that not only is this method cost-ineffective, it also brings with it an administrative burden that significantly impacts resources.
Nintendo
"Our LAN Administrator would make simple changes; these took some time. As the changes occurred infrequently, we had to remember the steps and double check to ensure we did not introduce a security hole. If there was a complex change to be made then we had to pay a consultant to come on-site.
"Many people are concerned about responsiveness with a managed service. But changes to security or access occur quicker than they did before the Network Box went in. As Network Box does this everyday the changes are quick and efficient.
Selectaglaze
"The main issue was that while most provided a reasonable user interface, there was a steep learning curve to get to grips with all of the different security and policy based aspects. We quickly realised that a managed service might be a more cost-effective and secure approach requiring less day-to-day administration. Network box not only provided a single box integrated security gateway, they also provide a 24/7 managed service to support all aspects of the security suite.
Pluswork Group
The Pluswork Group is a temporary and permanent recruitment specialist with offices in the North West of England. It has recruitment specialists at various office locations, as well as on the road visiting candidates and clients; and this posed a wide variety of IT security issues.
PDD
PDD is a product innovation consultancy, working with some the world's leading brands, such as Sony Ericsson, Orange and Levis, in the invention, conception and development of products that are used in daily life. It employees 65 staff at its UK headquarters in London.
Jeyes
Jeyes manufactures, markets, sells and distributes household cleaning and hygiene products throughout the world in more than 60 countries. The IT team currently spends, on average, two to five hours per week fending off Internet threats but expects this time to dramatically fall, now it has implemented Network Box.
Sunderland AFC uses Network box
Sunderland AFC is a UK premiership football club. The club has over 120 full-time employees at three different sites in the UK. Network security is a top level priority for the club, and a need to defend against the vast amounts of spam and malware it was seeing was an issue when the club upgraded its security system.
Graham Stenning, Systems Administrator, Sunderland AFC, explains: "We were receiving spam, spam and more spam and this was a big problem for the IT department. At one point we had 100,000 emails in a week and 85 per cent of these were spam."
Network Box Scores with Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur FC is one of the UK's top premiership football clubs and is also a modern sports business, dealing with large amounts of electronic correspondence and internet traffic from fans, business partners and sponsors. The need for a secure network that can defend against malware and spam was a high priority when it came to upgrading its security system.
Network Box Eases the Strain for Combat Stress
Combat Stress is a mental health and welfare service charity that provides treatment and support to over 7,000 ex-Services men and women of all ranks, suffering from psychological disability as a result of their service.
