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City of Utrecht Selects Finjan’s Secure Web Gateway to Prevent Unknown Malware
Finjan’s Vital Security™ Product Suite, using active real-time content inspection technology, prevents malicious content from entering the City’s network
The City of Utrecht (Gemeente Utrecht) deployed Finjan’s award winning Secure Web Gateway to secure its infrastructure and data and to ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of its communications.
Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands with a population of close to 300,000 citizens.
The City’s 4,000 users are divided into different user groups, depending on their particular responsibilities and department. Departments include public services such as the Fire Department (Brandweer), Municipal Healthcare Services (GGD) and the Department of Civil Affairs (Burgerzaken). The City of Utrecht is both legally and ethically bound to protect the privacy of information.
The City needed security in the form of safe browsing for its users, requiring scanning of HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, P2P, IM, etc., as well as protection against Crimeware and Web 2.0 attacks. Other requirements included flexibility in allocating different security levels for different user groups; scalability to extent the amount of services and networks; availability of the network to ensure safe and fast performance; and easy management to reduce administration costs.
Due to these requirements, the City was looking for a proven technology that could provide such level of security and performance. Its heavy use of Internet as a communication and information tool makes it vulnerable to attacks by cybercriminals. The City also needed the ability to define specific security policies for different groups of users, since it wanted some of its departments and personnel to use Internet for research and e-government services, while others only need limited Internet access.
The security solution that the City of Utrecht was using before didn’t meet its standards, since it was hampered by inefficient use of desktop resources and desktop maintenance, data theft and bandwidth. The City was also concerned about "social engineering” attacks towards their employees (duped into visiting infected websites).
The City of Utrecht decided to choose Finjan’s Secure Web Gateway solution, based on the award-winning Vital Security™ Web Appliances NG-5000-S. The solution was implemented by Unit 4 Agresso, an authorized Finjan reseller in The Netherlands.
Deployed at the Internet gateway, three NG-5000-S appliances currently support the City’s 4,000 users in a high availability configuration. These appliances feature Finjan’s active real- time content inspection, Vulnerability Anti.dote™ and Anti-Spyware engines. By integrating several security engines in a single appliance, Finjan’s comprehensive and integrated web security solution facilitates deployment, simplifies management, and reduces total cost of ownership.
”Considering the sensitive nature of our information and communications, there is no room for us as one of the largest cities in The Netherlands to compromise in the area of information security,” stated Kaj Siekman, Security Coordinator at the City of Utrecht.
"Since deployment of Finjan’s Secure Web Gateway solution, our end-user safety and reporting capabilities have greatly improved, thereby adding value to our information security. Maintenance of the security solution has become much easier and requires fewer resources.”
Finjan’s active real-time content inspection technology is uniquely capable of analyzing Web content in real-time regardless of its source, breaking down the code and understanding its true intent without executing it on the end user’s machine. Finjan delivers one of the highest rates of malicious code detection and prevention, allowing enterprises to safeguard their most valuable asset - their data. 04.06.2008, Finjan
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