COLLEGE ENTRUSTS SONICWALL TO SAFEGUARD ITS NETWORK

Online reporting and monitoring was a key to the college

Business need Stonyhurst needed a complete refresh of its aging IT infrastructure, as it no longer had the capacity to meet its needs. “The SonicWall firewall meets all our needs. It is stable and keeps our network secure. Solution We now spend far less time interrogating The SonicWall SuperMassive 9200 and Comprehensive Gateway the system. The SonicWall software Security Suite (CGSS), plus FastVue reporting software provided pushes the data to you with hardly any a comprehensive solution to secure the college’s network and intervention,” easily monitor different levels of usage. PAUL WILMORE, DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL SERVICES AT STONYHURST COLLEGE Benefits • Easy to setup, configure and manage different levels of security • Faster WAN connection and high availability for increased productivity • Far deeper level of security to safeguard data at all times • Easy to monitor users’ activity around the clock

CUSTOMER PROFILE Solutions at a glance Company Stonyhurst College • Next Generation Firewalls Industry Education • Security Services Country UK Employees 300 Students 750 Website www.stonyhurst.ac.uk The SonicWall firewall provides deep levels of security and is extremely easy to set up, allowing you to configure different sets of policies for different educational and recreational groups.

Stonyhurst College has a systems was needed and consulted with distinguished history as one of its long-term IT provider, Nviron. Products & Services Britain’s leading independent After a full evaluation of the network Hardware Catholic boarding schools. infrastructure and the college’s online monitoring and reporting needs, Nviron SonicWall SuperMassive 9200 Next Generation Firewall recommended a SonicWall SuperMassive The College is a co-educational Catholic 9200 Next Generation Firewall and school, faithful to the teachings of the Software SonicWall CGSS with FastVue Reporter Church and the educational principles of SonicWall Comprehensive Gateway for SonicWall software. the and was originally Security Suite founded in 1593 in St Omer in the Andy Carty, Head of Public Sector Sales Spanish Netherlands. It is now located at Nviron, explained, “We were confident in in beautiful Grade I listed that the SonicWall solution would work buildings, which are steeped in history. seamlessly with the Dell Clearpass The Stonyhurst estate provides a magical wireless and network infrastructure and setting for students from the age of 3 take care of all the radius authentication up to sixth form to receive a first class of the wireless devices. The SonicWall education that equips them for life in the firewall provides deep levels of security 21st century. and is extremely easy to set up, allowing

you to configure different sets of policies IT plays an important role at Stonyhurst for different educational and recreational groups.” The college is heavily reliant upon its network infrastructure. The nursery Seamless installation and integration classrooms embrace touch screen technology and this continues through The installation was carried out during to the sixth form. It is also especially the summer holiday period and took just important for students who board five days to set up the new firewall and at Stonyhurst, as they need to stay in integrate it fully with the Stonyhurst close contact with their families around network. The content filtering element the world. The boarders do this via was configured to be age appropriate FaceTime and Skype and they also enjoy in order to ensure compliance and the recreational time gaming and watching reporting was setup to monitor and films on Netflix. The college takes its highlight unusual activity. role in safeguarding its students very “The technical support received via seriously and closely monitors their Nviron and SonicWall during the extra-curricular activities to ensure the implementation period and beyond has internet is being used in the right way and been exemplary and any questions and not having a detrimental effect on school challenges were dealt with immediately. work. We really couldn’t ask for more,” said Paul The college has a single network that Wilmore, Director of Technical Services, spans both the school sites, which are Stonyhurst College. situated half a mile apart. Stonyhurst’s previous system was struggling to cope with the increased volume of traffic and was often unreliable. The IT team at Stonyhurst decided that a complete review of its network and security

2 Customised content filtering schedule. SonicWall’s Content Filtering Service (CFS) 4.0 can be mapped to The college is now able to quickly and report around the government KCSiE easily customise content filtering lists for “Our operating systems guidelines, which address safety and different age groups at different times security concerns. CFS has controls were inspected by an during the day, which enables the IT to enforce internet use policies department at the College to generate by blocking access to harmful and regular reports in the form of emails that Inspectorate six months inappropriate web content. automatically highlight unusual activity. after implementation and

If a student accesses a site categorised KCSiE Compliance they were completely as unsuitable, the software immediately blown away by the generates an alert. The administrator can The KCSiE guidance includes the reporting and data then request a breakdown of the users ‘Prevent Duty’, which evolved from management in place browsing history to see exactly what the the Counter-Terrorism & Security student has been doing online. Act in 2015 and sets out the legal and said that the content duties schools must follow in order to filtering was second to SonicWall also allows you to view activity safeguard and promote the welfare in terms of productivity. This is especially none, incorporating all the of children and young people under useful as it gives the College a complete lists required to comply the age of 18 in schools and colleges. picture of when the students are going This means that schools must deploy with the Governments online and what sites they are accessing, appropriate filtering and monitoring KCSiE guidance.” which if necessary, enables the College tools that include the police-assessed to quickly put interventions in place to PAUL WILMORE, DIRECTOR lists of unlawful terrorist content, ensure the students are on task. OF TECHNICAL SERVICES, produced on behalf of the home office STONYHURST COLLEGE “The SonicWall firewall meets all our by the Counter-Terrorism Internet needs. It is stable and keeps our network Referral Unit (CTIRU). It also includes secure. We now spend far less time the Child Abuse Image Content (CAIC) interrogating the system. The SonicWall lists supplied and maintained by the software pushes the data to you with Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to hardly any intervention,” commented safeguard children against accessing Paul Wilmore, Director of Technical unsuitable images on the internet. Under Services at Stonyhurst College. these new regulations, schools are expected to provide detailed reports Comprehensive all-in-one on all internet usage during any given security solution timeframe.

The SonicWall CGSS provides the school with an integrated package of security services designed to block cyber attacks and secures its network at the gateway against threats such as intrusions, viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans, adware, keyloggers, malicious mobile code (MMC) and other dangerous applications, for total protection in a convenient, affordable subscription-based service. CGSS also helps administrators supervise and manage applications with granular control, enabling them to classify and enforce specific policies. The Fastvue Reporting for SonicWall is then able to intelligently interpret SonicWall log files and extract detailed user activity on the web, during any particular timeframe. This produces defined reports that can be sent to safeguarding officers in real-time or on a

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