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SG UTM Secures Vectus

With a multi-site deployment consisting of Sophos SG UTMs, Vectus could move to a secure and
productively running network environment


Since 1989, Vectus has been involved in the manufacturing of various plastic tanks, piping systems and moulded articles. The company has a lion’s share of the market, enjoying average growth of 35% from last nine years, with present turnover of INR 600 Crores (USD90 million). Vectus attributes its success to understanding the needs of the target markets, coupled with placing technology at the core of its competitive differentiation.

Challenges

Vectus relies on efficient IT and networking to enable smooth and secure collaboration between its branch offices and field teams. Recently, it became imperative for Vectus to overhaul its network security while being able to restore IT productivity, which has been compromised due to unregulated internet access and poor visibility into user activity.

Among other challenges included frequent occurrences of server downtime that led to loss of precious man-hours and unavailability of critical business applications. Moreover, absence of effective security controls for web, application and user activities added to increased threat exposure and heightened risk to data and critical network resources. The need for a monitoring tool emerged as the team further examined the environment.

Vectus evaluated top 5 UTM vendors including Sophos but eventually chose Sophos SG UTM for its ‘all-in-one’ protection and a rich set of on-box features, which clearly ensured unmatched security, RoI and committed post-sales support vis-à-vis other UTM solutions.

Solution

Vectus replaced the existing appliance with Sophos SG UTM 220 in high availability (HA) for its ease-of-deployment, simpler management for day-to-day tasks, comprehensive threat coverage and reporting.

Following the deployment of Sophos SG UTM 220 and 330 at datacenter sites and SG 115 at select branch offices, Vectus’ networking and IT teams could get up speed quickly and could resolve network downtime, and unproductive and risk-prone internet usage.

Implementing Sophos SG UTM has enabled Vectus to save and increase precious bandwidth, manage connections and aggregate across multiple links safely, while supporting seamless failover options and high availability.

Results

With Sophos, Vectus Industries achieved the following benefits:

  • End network downtime, improve visibility and performance for a distributed environment.
  • Achieve reliable and comprehensive threat coverage against malware, spyware, proxy and other likely malicious activities or attacks.
  • Successfully block network intrusions and unproductive apps and websites that were causing network slowdowns and might have caused data breaches.
  • Smooth and secure transaction of data between branch locations.

The ‘all in one box’ platform of Sophos SG UTM provides IT admins with quicker response times and a rich set of on-box capabilities to respond to all change requests, and any incidents that may occur on the network. With automatically updated IPS, advanced threat protection, user based URL filtering and built-in VPN, Vectus could put all malicious traffic at bay while enabling secure and authorized access for legitimate users to server and network resources.


“We found Sophos SG UTM ticking all the checkboxes for ease of use, extent of threat coverage and availability of on-box tools. The all-in-one box dramatically reduced time spent in securing data and users. We saved 12 man days, which translates to annual gain of INR 1.2 crore.”

– Manish Sinha

Head IT, Vectus


 

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