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Customer Spotlight
CLAVISTER CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT 1
Eldon Group
Clavister ensures data protection and high availability for Eldon Group“The security of our data is the most important thing in our company and is also the hardest thing to develop and maintain
efficiently. Clavister successfully achieves this for us and has done so for many years.”
Vajk Gubas, Server Infrastructure Manager, Eldon Holdings AB
Eldon Group develops, manufactures and sells metal enclosures and electrical distribution systems. The organization’s 14 principal offices are situated in 10 European countries. Its main data center is in Stockholm, Sweden and the sites are connected through a Wide Area Network (WAN) of fiber optic links with Points of Presence (POPs) serving the different areas.
The WAN is operated for Eldon by third party provider InterRoute which networks to 90 cities in 24 countries across 57,000 kilome-tres of fiber and has the capacity to carry a Petabit (one billion Megabits) of traffic.
Sensitive company information constantly flows between Eldon’s widely distributed premises and protecting that data from intrusion or attack is of prime importance for business integrity and to ensure high availability of vital IT systems and applications.
Data protection“We have a very widespread Citrix client/server environment which takes a lot of traffic and we have mail servers that are replicated all the time. We also have backups that go over the WAN so different types of data are going round our systems 24x7,” says Vajk Gubas, server infrastructure manager for Eldon Holdings AB.
“It is vitally important that we protect that data and ensure continuous up-time of our business critical systems and for this we choose Clavister network security products.”
Efficient firewalls and intrusion blocking are the answer and Clavister provides both high end and lower end solutions for Eldon from its larger factories and main server room in Stockholm right down to small individual home offices.
Challenges � With 14 sites in 10 European coun-
tries, Eldon needs to protect the large volumes of company data that constantly flow over fiber links around its widely distributed environment.
� It also needs to ensure 24x7 avail-ability for its business critical systems by protecting them from intrusion and threats.
Benefits � Since implementing Clavister solu-
tions, Eldon has experienced only minimal downtime of its business critical systems.
� Clavister tools now give Eldon an overall view of its networks and their performance, improving and speeding up management and administration tasks.
� Intrusion Detection and Prevention functionality has also enabled Eldon to detect and deal with a potentially dam-aging Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) threat.
Solutions � Eldon has implemented both entry
level and high end Clavister Security Gateway network connections across its sites.
� The SG10 and SG50 series are used to protect smaller premises and home offices while the high-end SG3200 series is used in larger factories and at the Stockholm data center.
� High availability is ensured by failsafe systems at larger premises.
ABOUT ELDON GROUP
Eldon Group develops, manufactures and sells metal enclosures and electrical distribution systems. It
was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain with additional sales office and warehousing
facilities in Belgium, Norway, Germany and Sweden. The company also has manufacturing plants in
Romania, Holland, Spain and the United Kingdom and is represented in virtually every country in the world
www.eldon.com
COUNTRY
Sweden
INDUSTRY
Manufacturing
Scalable solutionsThe Security Gateway range of Virtual Private Network (VPN) appliances are aimed at companies that need extremely robust firewalls combined with high performance and comprehensive functionality. At the lower end, Eldon uses the SG12 and SG15 models, then the medium SG57, up to the high end SG3210.
All Clavister products offer Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP), bandwidth management, office-to-office VPN, user authen-tication, deep inspection, content filtering and antivirus gateway. With the SG 10 and SG 50 series, the emphasis is a lower basic cost of ownership with additional options. With the 3200 series, you can set security policies and filtering for every single user and benefit from extreme scalability ranging from 350 to 1,000 Mbits plaintext and 100 to 250 Mbits VPN throughput.
For additional protection in its larger factories and offices and in its server room, Eldon has implemented a failover system with Clavister units clustered in a master/slave format. If one system goes down because of a power or hardware failure then the other will instantly take over ensuring unbroken protection. Also, if the WAN goes down an IPsec connection is automatically created, provided by Eldon’s Internet Service Provider.
Intrusion detectedEase of management is a principal advantage of Clavister products and to achieve this, Eldon uses Clavister FineTune soft-ware. All remote management of Clavister devices, including configuration, monitoring and even complete firmware upgrades, can be performed from the Clavister FineTune management tool and is secured through 128-bit encryption and authentication.
“Clavister FineTune makes management of the system very easy,” adds Gubas. “In fact, without it, I do not see how we could maintain such a big infrastructure as ours. The Clavister first line of support is also very good. We are always able to speak direct with an engineer and receive good service for building our infrastructure.”
In recent years Eldon has only had one attack, a potentially damaging Distributed Denial of Services (DDOS) threat, which was rapidly detected and taken care of by the Clavister systems.
“Here at Eldon, we have always used Clavister security solutions and we will continue to do so because we know and like them. Basically, firewalls have one purpose and that is to maintain and protect our systems without downtime. That is very efficiently taken care of and the uptime of our systems is very good thanks to Clavister.”
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