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Irvine Housing Association has implemented Total Traffic Control to improve the
management of its users and reduce IT security costs
Irvine Housing Association, a registered social landlord located in Scotland has implemented Total Traffic Control (TTC) from Lightspeed Systems to provide a unified solution for their security needs, including web content and Spam filtering.
In the past, the Housing Association had restricted internet access to only one or two computers to mitigate against security threats and prevent inappropriate usage. This was becoming increasingly impractical as more and more employees had a legitimate need to access email and the internet to carry out their job. The Housing Association therefore, required a product that would allow them to secure and control internet and email usage so that they could safely roll out network access to the entire organisation.
Angus MacLeod, IT Manager for Irvine Housing Association comments, “We evaluated several products but none really impressed and the prices we were quoted were prohibitive. Lightspeed’s TTC, however, caught our attention as it not only offered us the Spam and web content filtering that we required but also offered us several other features within the product such as anti-virus software, a firewall, device control and policy management. Typically we would have had to resort to several separate solutions to get this level of network protection but to get all that functionality in a single product and at an extremely good price was what really convinced us”.
TTC delivers powerful and flexible control of virtually every aspect of how the internet and email can be used. Lightspeed’s database covers the whole of the known internet and is kept current by a regular download process. Lightspeed also runs regular analysis on every word and link on every page to determine what category each site should be in.
Furthermore, Lightspeed has designed TTC from the ground up to learn and adapt to changing techniques used by spammers. Using automatic feedback from decisions that administrators and users take every day about what email they want and don't want, its database and algorithms are constantly tuned to stop new spam even on the first day it appears.
Earnie Kramer, Managing Director, for Lightspeed Systems Europe, comments, “Now that email is the de-facto standard for business communication, combined with the increasing requirement for employee internet access, organisations need to take security seriously. The sheer variety of threats to a corporate network, from spyware and spam to loss of data caused by unrestricted use of portable devices, leads organisations to increasingly take a holistic one-stop approach to network security.”
MacLeod concludes, “Whilst Spam and web content filtering are one of the Housing Association’s priorities, the comprehensive functionality of TTC means that I can provide other aspects of protection and control such as securing removable media without having to dip further into the budget.”
