SurfControl Makes Internet Threat Protection Fashionable in a Citrix Environment for DKNY
February 06 2006 - 11:01PM
PR Newswire (US)
SurfControl Web Filter Solves DKNY's Challenge of Increasing
Security, Eliminating Network Abuse and Decreasing Liability across
a Distributed Enterprise SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/
-- SurfControl (LONDON: SRF) , the world leader in enterprise
threat protection, today announced DKNY (NASDAQ:LVMH) is protecting
employees in stores and offices across the United States using
SurfControl Web Filter. SurfControl Web Filter enables DKNY for the
first time ever to track Internet usage down to the individual user
level within the company's extensive Citrix environment. DKNY has
successfully eliminated nearly all phishing scams, spyware attacks
and viruses targeting their unsuspecting employees, and has greatly
increased network performance through the company's SurfControl
deployment. "We're a clothing design company and not as internally
rigid as a bank or healthcare organization might have to be. A big
part of our user population is very open minded, and don't realize
that by Web surfing, they're exposing the network to malicious
content," said Ken Meisch, director of technology for DKNY. "With
SurfControl Web Filter, we're able to proactively prevent network
vulnerabilities by removing the ability to access potentially
harmful sites. As a result, we've eliminated pop-ups and adware
that used to amount to about 3,000 hits per day; and that has
vastly improved network efficiency and increased our bandwidth."
DKNY, owned by the luxury brand group, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey
(LVMH), is a globally recognized company focused on the design,
production and marketing of high-end apparel, accessories,
fragrances and home fashions. The company prides itself on having a
culture of creative people from differing backgrounds that have
unique perspectives, opinions and values. Establishing clear
parameters on inappropriate Internet activity, while respecting the
company culture, was a collaborative effort among senior management
team members. DKNY required a solution that provided protection
against blended threats, detailed reporting on network and
Citrix-based user activity and easy-to-implement, customizable
global content filtering. Prevalent Networks, a Platinum
SurfControl Partner headquartered in New Jersey, engaged with DKNY
to discuss the company's challenges. When DKNY indicated problems
with their existing filtering solution, Prevalent Networks
recommended a SurfControl trial. Jonathan Dambrot, managing member
at Prevalent Networks, reports that, "Some of the issues with
DKNY's former Web filtering solution, including poor reporting and
management, were so easily solved with SurfControl that after a 30
day evaluation, DKNY immediately made the switch to SurfControl Web
Filter. Our recommended solution continues to solve network
performance and employee productivity issues and has paid for
itself many times over." SurfControl Web Filter - One of a Kind for
Citrix Customers DKNY uses Citrix Presentation Server for
centralizing the deployment and management of enterprise
applications. Because each user accessing a Citrix server from a
remote DKNY office is not identified by an individual IP address,
the company was previously unable to easily enforce Internet
acceptable use policies, monitor Web usage and create detailed
usage reports on an individual basis. SurfControl Web Filter was
uniquely able to provide user-level Web security controls within
the Citrix deployment. SurfControl Web Filter's seamless
integration with Microsoft Active Directory has simplified the
ability to control network access for outside vendors who have
access to DKNY's network. Meisch continued, "There could be one
person online, or 30 people online, and we'd have no idea where
they were going, what they were doing or what dangers were being
exposed to the network. SurfControl Web Filter empowered us to
automatically protect our network and employees against even the
most malicious attacks while enabling us to support all the
legitimate needs of our remote users." Unmatched Reporting,
Management, Protection - The List Goes On The DKNY IT staff uses
preset reports such as top 10 users, top 10 sites and top
categories from SurfControl Report Central to manage operations --
and can quickly develop custom reports for managers, department
heads or executives. DKNY staff members also save time in the
customization and updating of different policy configurations,
accomplishing in a few simple mouse clicks the same tasks that
previously took much longer. Meisch concluded, "Our previous Web
filter provider simply seemed to stop evolving to meet our changing
needs. We always had to wait for the next version of the product to
get the functionality we needed and then the product would be
unstable. The reporting was nowhere near what SurfControl provides
and overall, the system just seemed to make our job harder rather
than easier. SurfControl has really stepped up where our last Web
filter provider fell short." About SurfControl SurfControl plc
(LSE:SRF) is a world leading Internet Security company delivering
multiple layers of threat protection to shield organizations
against complex blended threats. SurfControl's Enterprise
Protection Suite has redefined traditional "filtering" by offering
a unified threat management solution that eliminates spam, spyware
and phishing attacks, as well as Web and e-mail abuse. The
SurfControl Adaptive Threat Intelligence(TM) Service provides
continuous and proactive threat detection and protection from
emerging threats, known blended threats, and customer-specific
threats. Customers avoid significant business downtime that impacts
productivity and the bottom line, while limiting legal liability
and enforcing regulatory compliance and confidentiality.
SurfControl has 14 offices worldwide serving more than 20,000
enterprise customers. For further information and news on
SurfControl, visit http://www.surfcontrol.com/. DATASOURCE:
SurfControl plc CONTACT: Paige Pace of SurfControl,
+1-831-440-2631, or Web site: http://www.surfcontrol.com/
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