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Staffordshire Police Selects EpiForce(R) Security Solution
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - UK-Based Police Force Achieves Confidential Status Certification,Creates Identity-Aware Network With Apani(R) SoftwareTHEALE, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - July 07, 2009) - Data sharinginitiatives for Law Enforcement Agencies, such as the UK's PoliceNational Database (PND) are on the increase and with it the upgradingof the protective markings of that data from 'restricted' to'confidential.' At Staffordshire Police, this data still needs to beaccessible from all county locations and therefore requires thereclassification of their entire network, including WAN and LAN, to a'confidential' level. Apani EpiForce is one of the cornerstoneinternal solutions used in achieving this level.Staffordshire Police employs approximately 4,500 people, with policeofficers accounting for more than half of this figure, and serves apopulation of more than one million across an area of approximatelyone thousand square miles. The challenge presented to Phil Lovell,head of technology services for the Staffordshire Police force, wasto ensure that the force is fully compliant and prepared to accessand utilise the new PND in 2010. Specifically, the mandate is for allcommunications to the extensive PND to be encrypted and withsegmentation between 'restricted' and 'confidential' areas. With anetwork made up of 2,300 workstations and more than 350 servers thesolution had to be reliable, flexible, unobtrusive to deploy and easyto maintain.After examining the Force's business processes, reviewing existingalternative technologies and interviewing key end users of existingconfidential level systems, Staffordshire selected Apani's EpiForcesolution due to its inherently high levels of flexibility andefficiency, which cannot be found in typical network securitysolutions. Moreover, EpiForce adds identity-based access control andencryption to create an identity-aware network that enforces securitypolicy based on the identity of the connected user."Security of data is a key element of inspiring and maintaining thetrust of the communities we serve and thus is a very high priorityfor us," noted Lovell. "EpiForce, once it has achieved FIPS 140-2accreditation which it is currently undertaking, will enable us toachieve IL4 certification on top of an IL3 accredited network at afraction of the cost of alternative solutions. EpiForce has the addedbenefits of being unobtrusive to deploy and flexible enough toaddress business challenges for the Force as they come up in thefuture."In addition to meeting regulatory requirements for the PND, EpiForcehas armed Staffordshire Police with a comprehensive solution thatenables computer assets to be physically or virtually relocatedwithout requiring major system modifications. EpiForce also providesStaffordshire Police with access control that eliminates the need fortraditional, inflexible hardware-based appliances. In addition,EpiForce enabled Staffordshire Police to reconnect more than 50non-networked 'digital evidence' computers to centralized anti-virusservers, without exposing broader network vulnerabilities. EpiForceoffered a centrally controlled, efficient solution that eliminatedmanual updates for anti-virus software to each machine individually.This alone saved Lovell's team the time and cost of one fullman-year. Finally, EpiForce could be deployed transparently andindependent of other technologies including Citrix, VMware and theirexisting infrastructure."Software solutions are easier to maintain than hardware options, andEpiForce has helped Staffordshire Police simply and seamlesslyachieve the requirements needed to comply with national regulatoryrequirements, positioning the Force to address future businesschallenges," said Graham Morris, Apani managing director for Europe."The success of the Staffordshire Police implementation is oneexample of the flexibility inherent in EpiForce and we're pleasedthat we could support the business needs of the Staffordshire Policeto achieve 'confidential' certification status."EpiForce delivered the Staffordshire Police several major benefitswithin a single security solution that enables an identity-awarenetwork without requiring network readdressing or reconfigurations,eliminating countless hours of maintenance to support new securityinitiatives. EpiForce is a software-based alternative to usingnetwork firewalls and VLANs for security inside the corporate networkand can be installed, deployed and configured on top of existingnetwork infrastructure without requiring changes to theinfrastructure.About ApaniApani® is the preeminent provider of identity-aware network solutionsfor large enterprises, protecting an organization's internal networkand business-critical data from intruders.Apani EpiForce®, the company's flagship product, allows anorganization to create an identity-aware network that protects dataand network communications by isolating users, servers, clients, andmission-critical data into security zones, regardless of systemplatform or physical location. EpiForce uses the identity of the userto control access to security zones and selectively encrypt trafficbetween users and machines on the network.EpiForce provides flexibility and efficiency not available withtraditional network security solutions. Based on software, EpiForceis a distributed, centrally-managed solution that is transparent tousers, applications and infrastructure -- making it quicker to deployand less costly to manage than any hardware-centric solution. Policyenforced by EpiForce is persistent, enabling protected resources tobe relocated without compromising security.Working to provide an evolutionary improvement in efficiency,flexibility, manageability, and total costs of ownership, Apanitechnology is used by many of the largest companies in the world.Based in Southern California, Apani was founded in 2003 and isprivately held. More information about the company may be found atwww.apani.com.Contact:Ryan MaloneApani+1-714-674-1638rmalone(at)apani.comThis announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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