Denbighshire council streamlines security infrastructure

The council wants to improve IT security processes

Denbighshire County Council is improving its online security for employees, schools and libraries in the county.

Using software from IT supplier CheckPoint Software Technologies, the council hopes to cut administration by two days a month with real-time, automated security event correlation and historical trend analysis.

The authority needed a system that could serve multiple end points and cope with large amounts of data, said Shannon Gage, technical support analyst for Denbighshire County Council.

“We host and provide web access for a large, diverse range of users, so our firewalls and other security devices produce huge volumes of log data – around 1GB per day,” she said.

“This was making it difficult to do regular security health-checks and proactively identify any emerging issues or threats.

“I wanted to be able to work more efficiently and improve my network's overall security stance. The system gives me a clear, uncluttered picture of important events on the network and makes detailed inspections of network traffic and devices easier."