Case Studies


Tolly Group Test: M-Series M-285 Internet Security Appliance

Network Box commissioned Tolly to evaluate how effectively the Network Box M-285 solution detected malware.  Using malware samples from the WildList, augmented by additional ssamples provided by AV-Test, engineers evaluated the detection rates across the HTTP, POP3 and SMTP protocols.The M-285 successfully detected 100% of the malware contained int he Extended WildList across HTTP, POP3 and SMTP.

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Biwater Group

The Biwater Group designs and constructs water and wastewater systems across the world (the name ‘Biwater’ – or ‘two waters’ – was adopted because of its involvement in the provision of clean water and the treatment of wastewater).

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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.

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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.

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Network Box awarded five-star rating by SC Magazine

Network Box’s IDP solution is just one component of its unified threat management (UTM) managed service (it was competing with pure-play IDP systems in the test). In addition to  IDP, Network Box includes firewall, VPN, anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-malware, and content filtering within its UTM service. Its service is continually updated using PUSH technology, which literally pushes new signatures and updates to each Network Box device as soon as it is available, with no need for manual updates (or expensive annual upgrades).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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Wyboston Lakes Conference and Training Centre

Internet and email access are critical to Wyboston Lakes’ business. Conference and training delegates, serviced office clients, hotel visitors and employees all rely on Internet access, with varying requirements. Wyboston Lakes supplies fixed Internet and email, WiFi and VPNs to its customers.

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