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The following success stories demonstrate how diverse organizations have protected their corporate assets with help from WatchGuard specialized network security solutions.


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Secure Networks Help Diadora Maintain Excellence

With subsidiaries in the UK, Spain, and Hong Kong, the renowned Italy-based sportswear manufacturer Diadora was in need of an updated network security system that could handle their global business concerns. Other vendors were evaluated, but ultimately it was a WatchGuard solution that met their criteria for strong security, resilient connectivity, good network visibility, and ease of use – all at a compelling price point.


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Countywide Government Network Stays Secure with WatchGuard Solution

Goshen County was struggling to find a network security solution that met their requirements for security, flexibility, advanced networking, and cost-effectiveness. Foremost in their minds was their responsibility to protect confidential data according to stringent compliance standards, including Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) security policies set forth by the FBI. A vendor specializing in products and services for government clients introduced them to WatchGuard, and they found everything they were looking for – from secure Wi-Fi access and policy-based routing to exceptional customer support.


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Integrating Security for Multiple LANs with a Central WAN

With a wide range of departments and facilities being serviced, this large community-based agency needed a solution that would provide security for a dozen separate LANs, while allowing those networks to integrate seamlessly with the organization’s central WAN. Secure internet access for voice, video, and data, as well as security for hosted web servers was also required. Learn how a WatchGuard solution provided the robust and reliable protection needed to satisfy all requirements.


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Extending Robust UTM Protection to the Edges of a Network

With main and branch offices using different ISPs, Philippines-based Tollways Management Corporation needed a solution that could seamlessly integrate with the WAN connecting branch offices, the mobile VPN linking its headquarters’ executives, and the secure remote access VPN connecting mobile users and consultants in France. Read how a WatchGuard solution fully satisfied every requirement and delivered robust UTM protection for all.


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Protecting a Large Distributed School Network from Without and Within

Like other K-12 school districts, the Durham District needed to thoroughly protect its network from external threats, as well as from unauthorized intrusions by users within the network. With more than 70,000 students in its care and over 15,000 desktops to manage, they were also looking for strong centralized management to streamline administration and real-time monitoring to instantly track network activity. Learn how they found the perfect solution.


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Intuitive Tools Allow Company to Easily Manage Network Security In-House

When a leading renewable energy company decided to retire their current security equipment, they wanted a replacement solution they could manage in-house. The previous system required employing consultants for even the simplest of modifications which led to high costs and time delays for updates. With WatchGuard, they discovered how easy it can be to have comprehensive network protection, managed in-house using an intuitive, centralized console.


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Simplifying Network Infrastructure and Reducing Costs

When this financial service organization put out a bid to redesign the core of its network, the requirements comprised high bandwidth, high availability, and real-time reporting and troubleshooting. With a WatchGuard high-performance security solution incorporated into the redesign, they got everything they wanted – and more – including greater efficiencies, cost-savings, and the ability to smoothly scale to handle rapid growth.


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Setting Up Secure, High-Performance Communications Between Main and Branch Offices

As Telit Communications, an EU-based provider of cellular technology, added more branch offices around the globe, they needed a high-performance security solution with the broadest possible compatibility to secure communications between the offices. Read how a straightforward combination of WatchGuard security products gave them the reliability, redundancy, and multi-gigabit throughput they required to keep their data protected and flowing smoothly.


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Securing Police Communications Between Squad Cars and Headquarters

When Altoona's police department wanted to exchange sensitive law enforcement information over squad car computers, they turned to WatchGuard and the powerful Firebox X Core security solution to keep their communications safe. Find out how they got the increased mobile VPN security they needed at a price they could afford, while gaining remote monitoring capabilities that were not previously available.


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Belton School District

Network security is a top priority for Belton School District. Their primary concerns include securing the confidential student information stored in the district's central database, and ensuring the students themselves are protected from unsuitable content on the Web. With just eight IT staff for the entire district, they also needed a security solution that provided streamlined management. They chose the Firebox X for its combination of robust security, powerful URL filtering, and intuitive management interface - all at the right price point.


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Turin Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games

During the recent Winter Olympic Games in Italy, WatchGuard worked with the Turin Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (TOROC) to help secure parts of its network. During the months surrounding the games, WatchGuard Italy provided support for TOROC, together with professional on-site consultation. Fabrizio Bario, responsible for the TOROC Security Team confirmed, "The WatchGuard implementations have exceeded our expectations, and it's so easy to configure and run the units, thanks to the centralized management."


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Lan-Com Technologies

Over the last three years, Lan-Com has been refining the various elements that comprise the Utility Computing model specifically focused on small to medium-sized businesses (SMB). A critical component of this model is support for network security and Lan-Com has standardized on the WatchGuard® Firebox® X line of Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances to offer its customers an award-winning security solution.


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Agitar Software

Agitar Software is a leading provider of enterprise developer testing solutions. Although its corporate headquarters are in Mountain View, California, Agitar has a global sales and support team, with approximately 25 reps across four different countries. While traveling, the sales and support reps need to log into Agitar's corporate network in order to access their wiki server and other internal corporate assets and applications, so require a secure, reliable solution to enable the VPN connection. Agitar had an IPSec solution in place, but was not happy with its performance.


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Benelogic

Benelogic's service is the trusted source for online benefits management for more than one million employees and users, spread across 150 enterprises. As an Application Service Provider (ASP), Benelogic has the dual challenge of securing and optimizing its online environment while also providing a flexible, useful internal network for its employees. With its customer base rapidly increasing each year, it needed to upgrade its network to support current and future growth. The first step in this process was to upgrade its security.


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Boys & Girls Club of King County

For a nonprofit organization like the Boys & Girls Club of King County (Washington) with multiple sites to protect, the criteria for implementing a new security solution was clear. Besides robust network protection for their headquarters and surrounding facilities, they needed scalability to handle new locations, affordability that matched the reality of resource constraints, and centralized management to make it easy to administer the entire system. Learn how the Boys & Girls Club got the scalable security they needed, along with ease of use, while cutting IT costs nearly in half.