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RPS Enhances Remote Access Security with Check Point Solutions
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security
- Networks & Connectivity - Gateways
Applicable Industries
- National Security & Defense
- Transportation
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Remote Control
- Tamper Detection
Services
- System Integration
- Training
The Challenge
RPS, a leading multidisciplinary consultancy in Ireland, faced a significant challenge in providing secure, reliable remote access for its highly distributed enterprise. The company supports its various divisions with an information technology strategy characterized as a 'distributed centralized model.' Services such as email are centralized, with different services being located in different places connected by an MPLS network. However, hundreds of RPS employees move around, working from various locations including RPS offices, home, hotels, airports, customer facilities, or even remote countryside locations. The company needed to provide secure remote access that is also extremely user-friendly so that consultants can access their email, download standards from the intranet, and report their hourly billings and expenses from the field in a timely manner. The existing https product for remote intranet access was not deemed secure enough for wide distribution due to concerns about the safety of the laptops used by the employees.
About The Customer
RPS is Ireland’s leading multidisciplinary consultancy providing planning, engineering, transportation, and environmental services. The company supports the growth of foreign investment in Ireland by planning and building the plants and offices of these businesses, as well as the infrastructure that they require. RPS has established itself as a one-stop shop for American corporations coming into Ireland, supplying any expertise required—from environmental impact studies all the way to construction. The company has 900 employees based out of offices in Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Letterkenny, Limerick, and Waterford. RPS supports its various divisions with an information technology strategy that is characterized as a 'distributed centralized model.'
The Solution
To address its remote access security concerns, RPS collaborated with Integrity Solutions, a Check Point solutions partner, to review its security and provide training. The recommendations resulted in upgrading existing Check Point perimeter security gateways to the VPN-1 Pro NGX software platform and replacing an appliance with an open server running SecurePlatform, Check Point’s hardened operating system for security. For accountants, executives, and engineers, RPS provided Check Point Integrity™ SecureClient™ for remote access. This solution installs a centrally managed personal firewall on the endpoint computers, preventing eavesdropping and piggybacking on the transmissions and enabling RPS to block network access to computers that do not comply with its security policies. In some instances, RPS provides SSL Network Extender™ for remote access. This solution allows consultants working at client sites behind firewalls that do not allow connections out to the RPS network to go through the Internet using the SSL Network Extender Web browser plug-in.
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