Case Study: InTACT

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InTACT is the insourced provider of telecommunications and computing services for the whole of the Australian Capital Territory Government. Since deploying Sophos Anti-Virus™, more than 10,000 computers in the Territory’s government departments, agencies and hospitals have been protected from malicious threats. Download now

"We originally chose Sophos because of its security strengths, the company's technical excellence and, in particular, the software's low resource usage."
Ian Waters, Technical Solutions Director, InTACT

Fact file

  InTACT
Sector: Government
Location: Canberra, Australia
Environment: 10,000 users in hospitals and government departments using Windows 2000/2003 on desktops and servers
Solution: Sophos Anti-Virus, part of Endpoint Security and Control

Business challenge

  • InTACT is responsible for protecting the Australian Capital Territory Government's systems and data from being compromised by viruses.
  • The agency aims to reduce the total cost of ownership for the government wherever possible.

Technology solution

  • Sophos Anti-Virus was chosen for its ability to protect against malicious threats and low resource usage.
  • Enterprise Console administers and manages every desktop and laptop from a central location.

Business results

  • Sophos's automatic updates and small virus signatures ensure InTACT's technical labour and network bandwidth usage is kept low.

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Customer quotes

"Sophos has saved us time, resources, and money"
Sam Ghelfi, Raymond James

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