VAL D'OISE DEPARTMENT - CD 95

How can you address the dual challenges of IT and HR: optimizing bandwidth and improving productivity—while ensuring the security of the information system?

Background

4,000 employees
departmental &
180 different professions

Answer

2 virtual servers

configured for Olfeo

Profit

Computer network
covering over a hundred sites
Logo of the Val d'Oise department
How to address a dual IT and HR challenge: optimizing bandwidth and improving productivity—while ensuring information system security?

THE CHALLENGE

Responding to a dual challenge within the Val d'Oise department with the Information Systems Department, which has launched a comprehensive identity and security management project:
  1. Optimize computer network bandwidth across approximately one hundred different physical locations.
  2. Ensuring the security of 4,000 employees when browsing the Internet (Qwant has also been deployed).

THE SOLUTION

A solution tailored to the challenges faced by IT and human resources departments:
  • Implementation of web filtering to limit internet access via time slot and volume quotas
  • Implementation ofweb antivirus software that analyzes content in real time to instantly identify, block, and remove all types of attacks.

OLFEO-TOUCH

  • Recognized expertise: Web security gateway solution
  • A solution that effectively addresses the issue of bandwidth
  • The granularity of categories enables efficient URL filtering.
  • The ability to deployvirtual appliances that make it easy to add resources.
  • A French solution perfectly adapted to local legislation, unlike American products, which sometimes have bugs in their site categorization.
  • A reliable solution in place for 9 years
  • An attractive price-quality ratio.

THEY DID IT

28% increase in bandwidth and improved employee productivity.
Organization of meetings with union representatives, Human Resources Management, and the IT Department to support these changes in work organization.

ADDED VALUE

  • Real-time IT security with threat blocking
  • Automatic interfacing of Olfeo withthe company directory, making it easy to apply filtering policies according to users' business departments via groups.
  • Virtualization of appliances possible
  • Simplicity of the console for generating automatic reports
  • Ergonomic interface that allows for simple and efficient use of the solution
"We absolutely wanted a solution that was separate from the firewall. We chose Olfeo because we wanted a dedicated proxy solution whose core business was filtering. In UTMs, filtering is an option. This overloads the firewall, especially on a computer network with around a hundred sites."

Laurent Roinsard – Head of Urbanization & Production