Crediton Dairy, a medium-sized enterprise in the industrial manufacturing sector, was facing challenges in controlling and managing data that were subject to regulation. The company needed a solution that could provide visibility into data movement within the business and automate policy enforcement based on user behavior. The solution also needed to minimize disruption to users and help the company get started with their data loss protection project faster than expected.

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a leading semiconductor company, faced the challenge of preventing the leakage of high-level internal information due to the competitive nature of the semiconductor industry. The company needed a system that could monitor internal users for signs of behavioral anomalies, identify the causes, and prevent data loss. The system needed to not only inspect unsafe actions but also monitor the entire situation, predict potential data loss incidents, and analyze causes. Additionally, the system needed to be compatible with various existing PC security software and should not interfere with the daily business of each user.

Metro Bank, the UK’s first new High Street bank in over 100 years, wanted to improve employee productivity by enabling off-network access to Office 365 and Yammer. However, they found the move too risky, even with Mobile Device Management (MDM) in place. The bank needed a solution that would enable them to fully leverage their investment in cloud applications without increasing the risk of company data and confidential information falling into the wrong hands. The Infrastructure Delivery Team’s goal was to provide full access to Office 365 for corporate-owned device users—on or off network—and to extend access to Yammer for personal device users as well. As a second phase, specific colleagues were to be given off-site access to the more-sensitive information within Dynamics CRM. Enhancing mobile endpoint management was another key requirement. Metro Bank wanted to limit off-network access to the corporate devices already managed by AirWatch MDM, and there was no straightforward way to enforce this policy with their existing tools.

Lake Michigan Credit Union (LMCU) is a large financial institution with over 300,000 members and $3.7 billion in assets. The company provides a wide range of financial services and has a high membership renewal rate. However, LMCU faces the daily challenge of keeping its members' valuable personal information secure. Financial institutions are a top target for threat actors worldwide, and any incident of data loss or theft could cause irreparable harm to customers and the business. LMCU's previous security solution did not offer unified visibility amongst the products and was lacking in actionable guidance for the IT department. As a result, time management was becoming more inconvenient for active users and administrators. They were spending too many man hours “minding” the system. Time spent repairing and monitoring the network was excessive and critical.

Lake Michigan Credit Union faced several challenges in ensuring the security of their member data. They needed to protect against external threats such as phishing and malware, which could compromise the trust of their members. Additionally, they needed to prevent internal vulnerabilities, such as employees sending member data via personal email, uploading to a personal or unsanctioned website, or copying to a USB drive. The credit union also wanted to minimize the time their staff spent managing security tools and addressing threats.

The bank has been a leader in the Egyptian economy by offering progressive digital banking services and increasing financial inclusion for some of the country’s most underserved segments. However, this also means that the bank must safeguard the personal and financial data of some 700,000 retail customers, many of whom are technology newbies. A breach could impact growth and operations while decimating customer trust. After encountering an increase in threats targeting its email communications, the bank turned to Forcepoint for a solution. The bank has seen an uptick in email-based avenues of attack, including executive-level targeted phishing attacks and zero-day attacks via emails sent to its nearly 6,000 employees.

Spanbild, a manufacturer of expertly designed, quality steel, timber and paneled temporary, permanent and relocatable buildings, was facing a significant issue with its email security system. The company's website generates a large volume of queries from prospects seeking information and quotes, which are automatically directed by the email server to the appropriate franchisee for follow-up. However, franchisees began to query Spanbild regarding missing prospect information. Upon investigation, Spanbild’s IT team discovered that the company’s email security system was identifying a large number of false positives. Emails that should have been delivered were being categorized as spam and, therefore, filtered out. This included a large number of prospect inquiries. Additionally, they noticed that the email security software was running out of hard disk drive space.

Colacem, a leading cement producer, was facing challenges with its existing open-source web security. The system only allowed antivirus detection and limited profiling, making maintenance expensive without ensuring protection against sophisticated, multistage attacks. The growth of more advanced threats increased the urgency to transition away from a strictly role-based internet security solution. The company needed a more powerful web browsing security solution, especially with the increase in users working remotely.

Cobweb provides hosted services for over 150,000 mailboxes, managing firewalls for hundreds of locations with complex, overlapping IP schemas. The impact of overlapping schemas to Cobweb and its customers created an inability to deliver the service to customers. Furthermore, Cobweb has to ensure that the environment is up-to-date in order to manage a continually evolving threat landscape. Visits to perform data center upgrades in Segensworth, Fareham, and one in Telehouse, London were proving to be time intensive, and the company needed a system it could rely on to upgrade automatically.

The hospital was facing a challenge of protecting its sensitive data from human-based vulnerabilities, especially from social engineering attempts. The hospital's employees, dedicated to serving their patients, could be exploited by hackers seeking financial gain. The sensitive information stored by the hospital, such as patient personal data, physician credentials, and Drug Enforcement Agency license numbers, could be used by hackers to create fake identities, pose as a medical professional online, or even file fraudulent insurance claims. The hospital needed a cybersecurity solution that could address human vulnerability without impacting the ability to provide care for its patients.

Anoka County government in Minnesota's Twin Cities region is a rapidly growing county with over 22 departments and 3,300 users providing services to more than 320,000 citizens. The Information Services department of Anoka County supports a wide range of departments and divisions within the county, including transportation, law enforcement, public works, and administration. Their responsibility is to ensure the smooth running of the county's information systems. However, the challenge lies in keeping the county’s information systems free of malware and protecting confidential government data, which is critical.

IMI Remosa, a leading manufacturer of control systems, faced a significant challenge in protecting its proprietary information. As the company continued to grow and innovate, the volume and accessibility of sensitive data increased, making the company increasingly vulnerable to data leakage and theft. The company's transition to a multinational organization accelerated the need for a security solution that could prevent data leakage and theft while ensuring safe and regular access to sensitive information. The IT organization was tasked with protecting the company's intellectual property and defining user roles and access privileges. To ensure the security and control the flow of sensitive information within the network, a security solution that provides both comprehensive Data Theft Prevention and detailed analytic reports was necessary.

Cegedim, a global provider of technology and data services to healthcare, life sciences, and insurance companies, operates a powerful network with extremely high throughput. This required a firewall performance to match. The company needed to deploy a large number of core network firewalls with advanced clustering to protect the entire IT infrastructure from external or internal attacks. Furthermore, Cegedim has distributed branch sites across Europe, Asia, and Australia, which required comprehensive, centralized administration and policy management capabilities.

RWTH Aachen University, one of Europe’s most distinguished technological institutions, was facing a significant challenge in terms of network security. Like other research-oriented institutions, universities are an attractive target for cyberattacks, and, as a result, their criteria and demands for security are stringent. The Center for Computing and Communication of RWTH Aachen University had several important criteria for network security, including high performance and availability, heterogeneous infrastructure and system environments, seamless connections to several research networks, and the ability to support variable user roles, permissions, and access rights. The university needed a security solution that could manage a data load of more than 20 Gbps, while offering protection from an increasing number of targeted attacks at end-user devices.

The airline was undergoing a digital transformation, moving data and processes to the cloud. This widened the attack surface and created more entry points for malware. The distributed and mobile teams needed safe, efficient access to cloud data and processes. The open web browsing policy necessary for staff to do their jobs left more room for user error. The airline needed a security solution to safeguard off-network activity while keeping business moving at cruising speed.

The telecommunications company, a leading internet and mobile services provider in Switzerland, is an integral part of the country’s connectivity, owning most of the country’s business-critical broadband network market and more than half of its mobile networks. As broadband and mobile connectivity edge closer to commodity status throughout the world, the company has leveraged its technological prowess to take its place in the fast-growing managed IT services business, notably in security. As companies move to cloud-based and hybrid infrastructures, digitization and new technologies are creating new avenues for cyberattack. However, a current IT talent shortage is making staff security experts hard to find. This explains why, according to an ICT Security Study 2018 by MSM Research Ltd, fully half of IT security spending in Switzerland flows into the managed services sector. Of surveyed companies, 64% want to expand their collaboration with external service providers further. The company needed airtight security with protection against malware and evasions with zero downtime to keep Switzerland’s economy—as well as the world’s—operating without a hitch. A security failure could lead to a network outage, hindering thousands of financial transactions for customer banks and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Worse, a security breach could disrupt or even crash worldwide financial markets.

The enterprise energy provider, serving tens of millions of customers, faced multiple external and internal vulnerabilities to both the power grid and their multi-pronged operations. The cyber threats faced by all companies—like data loss and fraud—come with the added complexity of protecting critical infrastructure. Millions of people, companies, and government organizations depend on it, and failure is not an option. Breaches, downtime, and fraud can cause massive problems for both the enterprise and its customers, from loss of revenue and reputation to endangering human safety. Safeguarding sensitive customer information is always paramount; in this case, that includes a number of high-profile individuals whose home addresses or social security numbers make a tempting target for data thieves looking for a quick payday. Then, of course, there are the millions of dollars flowing through the company, including funds from the resale of renewable energy that could be fraudulently rerouted through altered direct deposit information. Finally, the company’s substations, not always managed by a human operator, run the risk of being taken over by an outside entity without the company knowing.

Ross Stores, a large retail enterprise, was facing challenges with their existing web security solutions. The Palo Alto Networks & Bluecoat solutions they evaluated lacked in reporting and research capabilities. This led them to look for a more effective solution that could provide advanced threat protection, enhanced reporting functionality, and better integration with their existing systems.

Emerson Process Management faced several challenges. The company's policies were too complicated and required too much headcount to maintain them. This led to data exfiltration that left the organization exposed. Furthermore, the company needed to control and manage data that was subject to regulation. The company was in need of a solution that could help them easily find and control regulated data and sensitive IP.

The company, a leading supplier of cables and wires across several sectors, including automotive, industry, and elevators, was facing the challenge of protecting its valuable IP and that of its high-profile clients across its corporate and international locations. The company needed visibility to risky activity, indicating corporate espionage. With collaboration on a global scale, this sensitive, proprietary data is frequently on the move. Realizing data in motion can be difficult to see and control, the company needed a better way to secure it. And as the company expanded into countries with a known high risk of IP theft and corporate espionage, it wanted to ensure proprietary data was locked down. The breach of just one client’s IP could mean the loss of every clients’ trust—hurting the company’s reputation and its bottom line.

The New York Crime Analysis Centers (CACs) faced the challenge of deploying a robust, scalable, and affordable platform to provide each CAC with single-query access to their extensive volume of crime and intelligence data and the ability to query and share statewide. Each CAC represents unique architectures, multiple law enforcement agencies, multiple users with multiple sources, and varying law enforcement and related data. Each CAC varies greatly in configuration, location and data source structure. With new sources of data constantly being identified and updated in daily operations and investigations, CACs have to support local control of the data dissemination without the need to persistently store data in a warehoused environment. DCJS required a cost-effective system that could meet the needs of the CACs while delivering high performance and scalable results.

The Air Force Central Command (AFCENT) was tasked with establishing a new combined air and space operations center (CAOC) to replace a temporary facility that had been in use for six years. The new CAOC needed to provide more robust systems to accommodate users and improve interoperability. It also had to make the best possible use of physical space and reduce power consumption. The transition from the old facility to the new one had to be seamless so as not to interrupt mission operations. The CAOC was controlling air operations in two live theaters at transition time. The project, from planning to implementation, was completed in less than two years. This desktop consolidation project presented other challenges for all parties because AFCENT’s mission requires 24x7 operations with 99.99% availability.

Escorts Limited, a leading engineering conglomerate in India, generates a large volume of in-house IP in the form of blueprints and designs for engines, transmissions, and machines like tractors, cranes, backhoe loaders, compactors, and equipment used in railways. This IP required protection. The company also does business with leading manufacturers worldwide, creating even more IP that must be secured. A largely mobile global marketing and sales force required secure access to IP on and off the official network.

International Business Machines Corporation was facing several challenges with their previous security product. The efficacy of the solution was low, and the company found it difficult to manage. Additionally, the solution lacked scalability, which was a significant issue as IBM needed advanced capabilities to protect its growing mobile and global workforce. The company evaluated several vendors, including Symantec/Blue Coat and McAfee Web Gateway, before choosing Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway.

Reliance Capital, a rapidly growing financial services company in India, was facing a significant challenge in protecting the transfer of confidential customer data. With five operating businesses and a heavy flow of information, the organization realized it needed control over data moving across systems, geographies, and group companies. The potential for loss was high and it was critical that its data was secured from accidental or intentional leaks. The use of essential business tools, such as Web and email, presented a challenge to its current systems and the organization was increasingly concerned about the repercussions — both financially and in reputation — if sensitive data was leaked.

Marcegaglia, a leading steel processing company, relies heavily on the integrity of its technology and data to support its production activities and global strategies. The company employs about 2,000 licensed users with personal accounts and email addresses. In 2008, Renzo Rossi, CTO of Marcegaglia, began looking for a more efficient and secure means for thousands of users to access web content safely. Rossi recognized the need for a more efficient navigation process, company-wide, while protecting employees and data in real-time implementing and improving internal technology hand in hand with the development of the risks of the network.

The airline's employees often work remotely using company laptops, exposing them to potential security threats from unsecured networks. The company also faced the challenge of complying with strict European GDPR regulations and Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority requirements for data security. The company needed a security solution that could protect its users and data, regardless of their location. The solution also needed to be scalable and capable of integrating other solutions to further improve the level of protection.

Tekno Group, a company specializing in manufacturing pre-painted metallic products, was facing a challenge with their previous security solution. The solution had become cost-prohibitive and was not keeping up with advancing technologies. The company needed a security strategy that could protect their intellectual property and client data, increase prevention of threats via email and web, and was cost-effective while still maintaining the highest quality.

Validium, an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provider and psychological wellbeing consultancy, was facing a significant challenge with its existing security solution. The solution was high maintenance and was not effectively detecting threats entering Validium’s corporate network. The situation was further exacerbated when Validium became the target of highly-advanced attacks. The company experienced firsthand the severe effects of two crypto-ransomware attacks on its network within a few weeks of each other. The false positives in quarantined emails and malicious activity required tedious, daily management from Validium’s entire Business Projects Department. This wasted valuable time and resources for the business, so the cost of the solution was significantly more in terms of the ongoing management requirement.

Validium, an employee assistance and wellbeing consultancy, was facing a significant challenge with its on-premises web and email security solution. The system was ineffective, allowing sophisticated attacks to slip through. Malicious code embedded in attachments or URLs led to the organization falling victim to two crypto-ransomware attacks within a few weeks. The system also required frequent manual updates, which were time-consuming and did not necessarily improve functionality.