Travelex Secures Remote Endpoints With UTM-1 Edge

While the IT department, which is based in the company's North American headquarters in Toronto, Canada, was operating over a point-to-point ISDN connection, many branch locations were connecting to the Internet through unsecured dialup. In a nutshell, there were two specific challenges: There was no way to ensure that all the remote locations had the latest antivirus signatures, making certain offices susceptible to aiding virus outbreaks and connection speeds for each branch varied widely, so there was no reliable way to push out patches when security upgrades were necessary. As a solution Travelex embraced an early version of an all-in-one Unified Threat Management (UTM) security appliance from Check Point Software Technologies.