Brink’s France Chooses Stonesoft to Secure its Sites and Ensure their High
Availability
Brink’s France is organised according to three main business lines:
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Cash Management: cash transport, processing of valuables and ATM management and maintenance.
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Brink’s Security Services: human surveillance, remote surveillance, video surveillance and airport and port security.
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Brink’s Global Services: international transport of valuables.
The challenge
In today’s electronic
banking market, customers increasingly need to have access to their valuables and to their funds
orders in real time. To stand out in this highly competitive market, Brink’s France must provide
excellent service in real time. And to achieve this, it must have a high-availability information
system.
When it re-designed its IT infrastructure, Brink’s France’s goal was to improve its architecture; to accomplish this, Internet links were duplicated. The company was also looking for a comprehensive solution that offered clustering capabilities.
After studying the market and with the help of our integrator partner, DCI, Brink’s France
selected the Stonesoft products. During the modelling phase, the various performance levels of
these solutions were measured.
We were attracted by the high availability qualities of the Stonesoft solutions, which offer a great deal of flexibility and load sharing of Internet links for all of Brink’s France’s applications. Stonesoft definitely won us over when we discovered the centralised administration console and its very attractive price in the competitive security market,
Deployment
Before any integration, several preliminary requirements had to be met, such as facilities management and compatibility with hardware already integrated and in use at Brink’s France. In fact, Stonesoft software applications run directly on the hardware installed at the company. For three to four months, a modelling phase was needed to transfer the Internet links, electronic messaging and secure connections and to move to production.
After verification of operation, migration of critical applications was completed in one month. At that time, the DCI integrator copied all the rules and filter bases and the translation rules and installed them in the same way on the new product.
Brink’s France also needed secure connections between its remote sites and opted for the VPN multi-link functionality offered by Stonesoft. This type of functionality makes it possible to connect remote sites that cannot be connected otherwise.
Benefits and outlook
All the integration
phases of the Stonesoft solutions went smoothly. The high level of transparency offered by this
type of cluster ensures better availability for customers and allows them to perform maintenance
operations without any service interruption.
The benefits are real. The IT teams can maintain the Internet links and the various infrastructure elements thanks to the high availability of the firewalls without any interruption for customers or the Brink’s staff. Business Continuity Plan management is made easier, as is modelling of software updates. The administration console makes it simple to manage the infrastructure with minimum resources.
We were specifically looking for mono-site or multi-site clustering capabilities. Stonesoft provided the perfect solution to our needs and even went a step further with the fully integrated and optimised features of its centralised administration solution. This solution allows fully transparent management of the entire infrastructure of Stonesoft’s products.- Christophe Belmont, IT Security Manager at Brink’s France
In the future, Brink’s France plans to expand its remote site equipment in order to increase the operating environment of its applications.
About Stonesoft
Stonesoft Corporation (NASDAQ OMX: SFT1V) is an innovative provider of integrated network security solutions to secure the information flow of distributed organizations. Stonesoft customers include enterprises with growing business needs requiring advanced network security and always-on business connectivity.StoneGate™ Secure Connectivity Solution unifies firewall, VPN, IPS and SSL VPN blending network security, end-to-end availability and award-winning load balancing into a centrally managed system. The key benefits of StoneGate Secure Connectivity Solution include low TCO, excellent price-performance ratio and high ROI. The StoneGate Virtual Security Solutions protect the network and ensure business continuity in both virtual and physical network environments.
StoneGate Management Center provides unified management for StoneGate Firewall with VPN, IPS and SSL VPN. StoneGate Firewall and IPS work together to provide intelligent defense throughout the enterprise network while StoneGate SSL VPN provides enhanced security for mobile and remote use.
Founded in 1990, Stonesoft Corporation is a global company with corporate headquarters in Helsinki, Finland and Americas headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.stonesoft.com and http://stoneblog.stonesoft.com.
