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Internet Access Management (IAM)
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PREVENTION IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN CURE
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ITWin has helped a China-based high-tech manufacturing company, which is well-known for its process automation and industrial informatization in Internet-of-Things (IoT), secure its enterprise network through effective Internet access management and control.
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Challenges
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Sangfor IAM M5200-AC-I-S
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The manufacturing Customer has a corporate office in Johor Bahru (JB) and a few representative offices in Malaysia. Being a leader in IoT solutions, the Customer always has a great concern about corporate network security and information confidentiality.
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Aside from protection at the individual computer and local area network (LAN) level, the Customer also realizes that the Internet is a potential threat to the company. An incident of ransomware outbreak or leak of confidential product design diagram can quickly snowball into a disaster.
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Solution
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By understanding the requirements from the management and studying how the users utilize the Internet, we have proposed Sangfor Internet Access Management (Sangfor IAM) M5200-AC-I appliance to address their challenges.
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Sangfor IAM solution excels in four areas that every sizeable computer network needs:
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Intelligent Traffic
Management
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Precise and Accurate Application Control
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Uncover Encrypted Traffic with Unparalleled Visibility
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Unified Network-wide Management of all Endpoints
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With Sangfor IAM in place, the Customer’s IT administrator now gains visibility to the network traffic from the “Who”, “What”, and “How” perspectives.
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Who
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Who are the users, guests and what devices are generating or receiving data to/from the Internet
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What
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What are the contents flowing through the corporate network and the public network
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How
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How to handle inappropriate content, offensive materials, malicious contacts and disruptive behaviours.
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The Customer has observed outstanding improvement over their Internet access speed and incidents of security threats after applying stringent traffic policies in the Sangfor IAM.
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Thanks to the intelligence of the IAM device, the IT administrator can eliminate unproductive surfing and social activities without manual blocking of URLs and application settings.
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Most importantly, the appliance blocks sensitive corporate data from leaking out to authorized parties. Should any potential risk surface, the IAM can do data mining and present user behaviour history, including their search activities in various search engines.
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Summary
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In the era where the corporate world perceives data as the new oil for every business, Sangfor Internet Access Management (IAM) solution successfully delivers its values to its targeted clients by elevating their IT manageability, efficiency, productivity and security.
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