Business Objective and Benefits: To provide International secure access to shared services in the UK with rapid and easy access management and avoiding time consuming in-house servicing of external partners.

Products and Services used: Check Point VPN-1 Net, Check Point SecureRemote, Nokia IP 120 security appliance, and Presence professional services.

This company is internationally renowned as one of the driving forces in the horse racing and bloodstock industry. The company has a number of important business partners abroad and wanted to provide secure access to specific applications based within the UK headquarters for these partners.

The solution is straightforward and highly effective using Check Point VPN-1 Net, a virtual private network (VPN) system, running on a Nokia IP120 security appliance. Partners install the Check Point SecureRemote client software on their own equipment and the gateway service performs the login authentication process to allow the required levels of access.

The system requires minimal administration to set up a new partner account and connectivity can be active in a few minutes. Equally access rights can be withdrawn in seconds if revocation is necessary.

As a result the company have an easy to manage extranet that provides an efficient self-service route to information for partners without tying up the company’s staff and is available twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.