Case Study

LTE group aces cybersecurity Education provider reduces threats to zero, revs up performance of virtual desktops, and decreases security administration time by 80 percent

LTE group is a leading provider of quality learning, training and employment opportunities across the U.K. With 5,000 colleagues and more than 100,000 learners, LTE Group offers continuing education, training and employment services; professional training courses; and apprenticeships and work-based training. THE CHALLENGE LTE group, a leading provider of learning and training services, knew that replacing a long-time legacy PBX phone system with Skype VoIP was a big change for the firm’s 8,000 phone users. Industry What they didn’t expect was that their Skype deployment would be disrupted by an infection Education bypassing the incumbent McAfee endpoint security solution. The infection disconnected and reduced the quality of Skype sessions that employees depend on for phone and video Headquarters conversations and delivery of remote video-based training. Manchester, England, United Kingdom But that wasn’t all. A security breach occurred resulting in rolling downtime for 1,000 employees and several thousand students over two weeks as IT scrambled to take machines Employees off-line and clean them. Despite being turned off, McAfee’s peer-to-peer broadcasting (to 5,000 (IT staff, 48) share signature files) led to problems on the network. IT proved the root of the problem with packet capture but while McAfee acknowledged the problem, they couldn’t fix it. Results - Zero security incidents over Dissatisfied with the breach and high number of threats missed by McAfee, the IT team turned the last 18 months since to an evaluation of alternatives, including Sophos, Cylance, Microsoft Windows Defender, and deployment Bitdefender solutions. The winner was Bitdefender GravityZone. - Reduced time to perform full scans to 20-30 minutes Jamie Marshall, Group IT Director, LTE group, says, “Bitdefender simply was the best. We compared to one hour or have a complex, diverse and highly virtualized infrastructure. During our pilot, GravityZone more automatically pulled everything in and started blocking threats. It passed every single test - Cut virtual desktop login we threw at it.” and response times by 30 percent THE SOLUTION - Decreased security administration time from LTE group uses Bitdefender GravityZone to safeguard 6,000 Microsoft Windows and 3-8 hours to one hour per Apple workstations with plans to extend GravityZone to an additional 4,000 workstations. week Bitdefender also protects LTE group’s 600 VMware ESXi virtual servers, 1,750 VMware Horizon View virtual desktops, 70 physical Windows and Linux servers, and 7,000 Microsoft Exchange mailboxes. times decrease by 30percent withGravityZone.” response and login seen have users desktop virtual “Our Marshall, Shares machine. virtual and threat-database ratherthaneachindividual updates,runonadedicatedsecurityserver desktops sinceresource-intensiveand virtual securitytasks,suchasantimalware scanning group’s servers of improvesperformance LTEThis endpoints. virtual on agent an run and install to need the with eliminates that security integration agentless enables integration seamless The environment. GravityZone’sNSX VMware is booster performance Another 30minutes compared to anhourormore forMcAfee.”to quicker—20 much are also scans full The scanning. during endpoints affect doesn’t massive scan with McAfee, the infrastructure was almost crippled. Marshall says, “Bitdefender Another major improvement is endpoint performance. 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All these safeguards save us time because we no longer have to manually address quite are filter content and exceptions automated endpoints,”“The Mac Coppock. and notes and students. “GravityZone’s device control allows us to block USB devices on both Windows Previously, pointformalware a were bigentry USBdevices pluggedinto endpointsby staff installing GravityZone 18monthsago.It’s since blockinghundreds ofthreats aday.” breach single a had haven’t “We explains, group, LTE Architect, Enterprise Coppock, LTEJames breaching infrastructure. from diverse group’sthreats large, other and malware out keeps consistently GravityZone that now available time more has team IT The THE RESULTS required ourattention.” Typically,happening. resourceGravityZonearedeploymentsquite but intensivebarely these was what of unaware were Users threats. up picking started immediately and GravityZone installing while McAfeeremoved automatically It seen. I’ve deployment best the was rollout The Bitdefender implementation was remarkably smooth, explains Marshall: “The GravityZone Microsoft SQLServer, Skype,filemanagement, and EBSlearningmanagementsystem. Additional applications running on LTE group’s infrastructure protected by Bitdefender include All Rights Reserved. © 2019 Bitdefender.All RightsReserved. All trademarks,trade names,andproducts referenced herein are of their respective property owners. of theworld’s securitysolutions.Recognized by industry, respected by vendors andevangelized by customers, Bitdefender isthecybersecuritycompany you cantrustandrely on. connected home,mobileusers,modernbusinessesandtheirnetworks,devices, datacentersandCloud infrastructure. Today,intelligence forthesmart Bitdefender isalsotheprovider ofchoice,embeddedinover 38% Bitdefender isaglobalcybersecurityleaderprotecting over 500millionsystems inmore than150countries.Since2001,Bitdefender innovation hasconsistently delivered award-winning securityproducts andthreat - - - Operating Systems - - - IT Environment - Bitdefender Footprint LTE group James Coppock,EnterpriseArchitect, powerful.” simple to usebutextremely it becauseGravityZone isso Bitdefender absolutelynailed that lookafter themselves. we needhands-off solutions “We’re asmallIT team,so Microsoft Windows Linux Apple (Mac) VMware NSX VMware Horizon View VMware ESXi GravityZone Advanced Business Security Case Study

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