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Institute for Cultural Heritage in The Netherlands

Gatedefender provides perimeter antivirus protection for ICN

The Institute for Cultural Heritage in The Netherlands residences in Amsterdamand Rijswijk and is attached to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

The institute has all the facilities required to conduct independent research,organise courses and manage collections. The ICN team includes conservationexperts, art historians, historians, physicists, chemists, conservators, restorersand educationalists. Information specialists support the various departments.More than hundred experts are working in interdisciplinary teams on researchprojects and on requests for consultancy.

Already long time, Panda Security protects the Institute network with theirantivirus solutions. In 2003 the ICN decided to implement an extra layer ofantivirus protection. New threats coming from the Internet and e-mail trafficincreasingly concerned the ICN IT department. An effective layered protectionstrategy had to be applied.

For this extra protection layer, ICN opted for the Panda GateDefender. Unliketraditional software-based antivirus, Panda GateDefender is a dedicated hardwaredevice that has to be installed at the Internet Gateway to block viruses beforethey contaminate the corporate network.

A dedicated Panda Security engineer and Ernst te Brake, Network and SystemManager of ICN, implemented the Panda GateDefender at ICN.

The integrated approach of services and software is one of the distinguishingfeatures of the Panda Security products. At any time of the day, all year round,Panda Security is always on hand.

· Customer�s size: Medium.· Sector: Cultural institution.· Country: The Netherlands.· Users: 100 corporate users.

Details

· Easy to use: Panda GateDefender isthe most simple appliance to installand use.

· Security: Panda GateDefender scansup to 6 protocols, while otherappliances can scan only from 2 to4 protocols.

· Performance: designed to achievethe highest possible performance inscanning and protection.

· Increased productivity, as it allowsall communications to be managedat the same time.

Benefits

�The ease-of-use and excellence of the Panda products incombination with the dedicated support team, makes Pandahighly appreciated by the people of ICN�.

Ernst te BrakeNetwork and System ManagerInstitute for Cultural Heritage

Panda Antivirus GateDefender 8100

Case Study. Institute for Cultural Heritage. The Netherlands.

�he exclusive services and personal contact is highly appreciated by the peopleof ICN. This is one of the reasons why the relationship between The Institutefor Cultural Heritage in The Netherlands and Panda Security Benelux goesback to 2001�. Ernst te Brake, Security Manager of ICN, says.The Institute for Cultural Heritage in The

Netherlands (ICN) is a leading andindependent knowledge institute for theadministration and preservation ofmoveable cultural property. The institutehas four core activities. To give adviceabout the management and thepreservation of collections, research, thetraining of restorers and the administrationof the ICN collection.

www.icn.nl

About ICN

· Minimum impact in network loadBandwidth is an expensive andcritical resource for your companyGateDefender provides an optimumperformance, with a minimumimpact in your network speed, beingunnoticed by the users.

· High performance antivirusprotection Due to its integratedHardware and Software technology,Panda GateDefender offersextraordinary performance and thecapacity to scan 600000 SMTPmessages an hour, and 30 MbpsHTTP traffic, completelytransparently to the corporatenetwork.

· Easy to install and configure, itssecurity system is designed to beinstalled in any corporate networkeasily, with no need to reconfigureor reroute Internet traffic(transparent mode as bridge).

Key Features

Case Study. Institute for Cultural Heritage. The Netherlands.

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