Network Security Case Study

Estate Agent: Should have taken preventitive measures...

MyManor Properties found out the hard way, just how important it is to secure your network, but with 5G's help they have been able to protect their business networks and applications from outside influences.

The NEED:

Estate agents, MyManor Properties have been in business for many years, dealing in the real estate market. As a fairly established, successful company, MyManor never thought to properly secure their business network, using free software to protect their firewall and loosely managing their network router. Naively they thought that nobody would try to infiltrate their system.

Unfortunately, the devastating risks of their careless attitude were soon realised when an outside intruder did infact infiltrate, utilizing the business network to send many damaging emails that subsequently landed the company in hot water.

"It was terrible," comments branch manager Rob Hilton. "We came into work to find that our IP address had been black listed for spam emailing. We had no idea what had happened and it took a long time to rectify. It was only then that we realised that full security of our network was a necessity for our business."

The SOLUTION:

When approached by MyManor explaining their situation, 5G was able to provide the company with full security over their business network, which included a fully managed router, installed, configured and fully maintained and a managed firewall benefitting from expert firewall technicians, full maintenance and round the clock monitoring.

"Now that we have proper security set up on our network infrastructure, with the help of 5G we can control all incomings and outgoings across the whole of our network," says Mr Hilton. "If we ever need to add someone to our network, all we have to do is let 5G know and the network can be accessed within minutes. In fact, the only difference from before is that we can continue running our business, secure in the knowledge that our network is safe and sound in the hands of 5G."