AFCU Flies Higher After Purging Multiple Systems For 1 App

Credit Union Journal, The, July, 2008 by Kevin Jepson, Technology Correspondent

Air Force Credit Union here has made a “world of difference” in network security by purging multiple systems-firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, virtual private network and e-mail and web filtering–and consolidating them into one appliance.

Jeanette Cortez, manager-information systems, reports that that not only does that one appliance do it all, but does it better.

In November, the $260-million CU installed the Network Box E-1000x, a “unified threat management” (UTM) firewall that protects against multiple Internet threats. “Staff doesn’t have to worry about monitoring every single network security service every day,” Cortez said. “Instead, they just monitor the one box.”

“I can log in to the GUI interface and look to see if Network Box has...

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