Press Release
THE CCR GROUP TAPS CONSENTRY TO DEPLOY IDENTITY-BASED CONTROL AND LAN SEGMENTATION TO PROTECT SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Leading financial firm selects ConSentry for its simple and incremental deployment
Milpitas, CA – September 10, 2007 – ConSentry Networks, the leader in secure switching, announced today that the CCR Group, a subsidiary of Commerzbank, has selected ConSentry’s LANShield Controllers and Switches to seamlessly protect its network using identity-based access control. The ConSentry solutions also provide network segmentation, greater network visibility, and protection against zero-day malware attacks.
With almost $25 billion of assets under management, the CCR Group is a major asset-management firm. The company’s growth brought Phillipe Bremard, CTO at the CCR Group, the challenge of maintaining a secure network while ensuring that the business remains up to speed.
“Five years ago, we built our local network with a focus on performance and availability,” said Bremard. “We realized that we were reaching our limits and faced losing network availability, so we decided to apply new security polices on our network to protect us against new threats.”
Mr. Bremard’s main concerns were improving network availability, monitoring, and finding a way to manage and control network access. After studying traditional approaches based on virtual LAN (VLAN) segmentation and firewalls, Bremard and his team concluded those implementations were too risky and complex for the company’s networks.
Mr. Bremard ultimately selected ConSentry’s LANShield Controllers and Switches to address his issues, after hearing about the company from trusted partner Vipawan. The CCR Group selected the ConSentry solution for a number of reasons:
- Offers identity-based control for users and groups
- Provides visibility of all users on the network with a simple, centralized management station
- Gives IT the means to capture and view all user, application, and server data and to set policies for controlling them
- Offers contractor and guest authentication with a captive portal technique
- Quarantines non-compliant PCs with an integrity-check feature
- Provides zero-day malware containment
- Avoids any infrastructure or performance impact on the current network’s design
- Transparently deploys in the core network and allows for incremental deployment
- Provides network segmentation without implementing VLANs and access control lists (ACLs)
“The CCR Group provides an excellent example of why financial organizations turn to ConSentry to simplify the process of protecting sensitive information,” said Tom Barsi, president and CEO of ConSentry. “The ability to monitor and control individual users and applications in a single platform is fundamental to compliance and overall LAN security.”
About the CCR Group
An asset management specialist, the CCR Group has complete independence in conducting its business and benefits from the support of its shareholder, Commerzbank, to guarantee its development in Europe. With almost $25 billion of assets under management, the CCR Group is a
major asset management player in France. For more information, visit: http://www.groupe-ccr.com/pgs_en/index.php
About Vipawan
Vipawan provides network and IT system security services. The company manages its clients’ security projects by taking a four-dimensional approach to risk: economic risk, technological risk, legal risk, and human risk. This integrated approach enables Vipawan to develop long-term client relationships and deliver high quality results. For more information, visit: www.vipawan.com
About ConSentry Networks
ConSentry Networks delivers secure switching, enabling enterprises to control every user and secure every port on the LAN through its LANShield product family—the LANShield™ Switch, LANShield Controller, and InSight™ Command Center. More than 100 enterprises today rely on ConSentry’s award-winning secure-switching platforms to protect their corporate assets, ensure continuity of operations, and dramatically reduce the risk of security breaches. ConSentry is backed by blue-chip venture capital firms Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, INVESCO Private Capital, and Sequoia Capital; and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.
ConSentry Networks, the ConSentry Networks logo, LANShield, and "Control every user. Secure every port." are trademarks of ConSentry Networks Inc., for use in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.
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