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South Essex Partnership NHS Trust has deployed Sophos
PureMessage and Sophos Anti-Virus to protect its networks from
viruses, spam, Trojan horses and spyware. The Trust, which is one
of the UK's largest providers of health and social care services,
required a highly effective, low-maintenance security solution. The
system was provided and installed by Sophos partner, Access IT.
The Trust, which recognised the need for both email gateway and
desktop protection, has an extensive IT infrastructure that
consists of more than 50 servers and 1,500 workstations, spread
over 35 different sites throughout South Essex. In order to deal
with this extensive deployment with an IT department consisting of
only five support staff and one helpdesk employee, it was vital to
have a system with quick and convenient automatic updating
capabilities.
As well as installing the system, Sophos partner Access IT also
provided on-site training for the Trust, which services the entire
715,000 population of South Essex.
"Like most organisations, the majority of the Trust's employees
are not IT experts, so putting an anti-virus solution in place that
put zero demands on the average computer user was ideal," said Tony
Little, sales and marketing executive, Access IT. "With portions of
the Trust's network consisting of 512K connections, it was vital to
keep demands on resource requirements to a minimum so as not to
cause slowdowns for the end users."
"Sophos's anti-virus solution looked the best on paper and it
surpassed expectations when we put it into practice," said Jason
Button, IT&T supervisor, South Essex Partnership NHS Trust.
"When the software was installed, we caught 400 viruses, including
quite dangerous ones such as Netsky-P. All of these viruses were
missed by our previous anti-virus software."
About South Essex Partnership NHS Trust
South Essex Partnership NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS
providers in the country of health and social care services for
people with mental health problems and people with learning
disabilities. It has maintained its position as a three star Trust
for the last two years. In South Essex, the Trust covers a
population of around 715,000, and has an annual income of £81.4
million to deliver services for local people. It also delivers
forensic mental health services for the whole of Essex.
About Access IT
Access IT is a leading Internet Integrator based in the heart of
Kent, with clients ranging from SMEs to Corporations, Heath
Authorities, Local Government and Educational establishments.
Access IT has a longstanding business relationship with Sophos, was
amongst the first Sophos Certified Partners in the country, and has
been nominated for Sophos Reseller of the Year two years running.
www.accessit.co.uk.
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.