Network / IP security - Case studies

Pioneer charity Samaritans has worked in partnership with Comelit-PAC and installer Red Technical Services Ltd to complete an upgrade to the fire safety system at its registered office in Ewell. The organization, focused on suicide prevention through human connection, provides emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. LogiFire wireless system To protect the staff who help make this possible at its central office services, Samaritans has replaced its ageing fire alarm with a new Log...

The MAK – Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna bridges the gap between past and future, design and contemporary art. As one of the oldest museums of applied arts in the world, the MAK stands for diversity, inclusion, innovation, and sustainable development — values that are also reflected in its ongoing infrastructure modernisation efforts. A prime example: security. To protect rotating exhibitions and the high number of visitors, the MAK relies on state-of-the-art video surveillance te...

Pathway Church, founded in 1959 and located in Wichita, Kansas, operates three main campuses – Goddard, Westlink, and Valley Center – along with 16 additional leased or hosted worship sites. The facilities range widely in size, from 25,000 square feet at Goddard to 195,000 square feet at Westlink, serving thousands of congregants each week. In addition to worship services, Pathway manages a large preschool and children’s ministry.  The challenge Like many organizatio...

The New Kensington Arnold School District (NKASD) in Pennsylvania has overhauled its security infrastructure, implementing 911 Camera Sharing to strengthen campus safety and enable faster emergency response. In the event of an emergency anywhere within the district, the local 911 Dispatch Center can now access live video feeds from school security cameras in real time. This immediate visibility provides first responders with critical situational awareness, improving emergency response times and...

A bespoke Hochiki Europe fire detection solution has been installed at Willis Aviation Services Limited’s extensive maintenance base at Teesside International Airport, setting a new benchmark for safety across specialist aviation environments. Spanning 45,000 m² of hangars, workshops and office space, Hangars 7 and 8 house multifunctional facilities where engineers work with high-value aircraft and potentially flammable materials, a combination that demands uncompromising fire protec...

ZeroEyes, the creators of the first AI-based gun detection video analytics platform to earn full U.S. Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act Designation, announced that its proactive AI gun detection and intelligent situational awareness software has been deployed by Arkansas’ Trinity Catholic School. Trinity is the state’s first private school to adopt ZeroEyes to help protect students, staff, and visitors from gun-related threats. Prioritising safety Located in Fort Smith,...

Driven by Chile’s updated telecom regulations, Agile Ingeniería y Consultoría has partnered with Regula, a global developer of Identity Verification (IDV) solutions, to deploy a high-volume, high-compliance IDV system. The platform now enables the Chilean telecom sector to process more than 300,000 identity checks each month with the same document authentication accuracy used at border checkpoints, achieving a 96% conversion rate and full alignment with the country’s...

Gümüşdoğa Aquaculture is a professional fish farming company based along Turkey’s Mediterranean coastline, managing several large-scale offshore cage farming sites. Located approximately five kilometers from shore, these sites are essential to the company’s core fish production activities. Operating in an offshore environment created the need for a dependable system to support feeding management, real-time monitoring, theft prevention, and stable communication between offs...

Snoqualmie Casino & Hotel is located about 30 minutes east of Seattle in the US state of Washington. It is named after the Native American tribe of the same name – the “People of the Moon”. The casino offers nearly 1,800 slot machines and 58 Vegas-style table games. Since 2015, Snoqualmie Casino & Hotel has relied on Dallmeier’s video surveillance solutions, and these proven technologies are being used for the current system expansion. Video surveillance soluti...

PathCare is one of South Africa’s pioneers and most trusted providers of specialist pathology services, operating 24/7 across multiple depots and laboratories, and delivering a comprehensive range of services that include clinical, anatomical, and forensic diagnostics. With an extensive footprint across the Gauteng, North-West, and Limpopo Provinces, PathCare plays a critical role in supporting healthcare diagnostics nationwide. As their operations expanded, ensuring consistent and secur...

Interface Systems, a foremost managed service provider delivering remote video monitoring, commercial security systems, business intelligence, and network services for multi-location enterprises, announced that Big Brand Tire & Service, one of the nation’s fastest-growing independent tire and automotive service providers, has eliminated costly overnight break-ins and significantly reduced trespassing and vandalism at a high-risk location. The company achieved these results by deployi...

The Admiral Lord Nelson School, in Portsmouth, safeguards students and staff across three floors daily. With specialist classrooms spanning an extensive area, the Admiral Lord Nelson School needed more than just a system to detect fire; they needed a modern and resilient life safety solution that upgrades alongside the school. SFA Fire & Security were chosen to provide end-to-end delivery from design to installation, for single partner accountability, guaranteeing fu...

Operating in 26 countries, with partnerships in 55 more, Vodafone is one of the world’s pioneering mobile communications providers. The company made the first-ever mobile phone call on 1 January 1985, and now delivers mobile communications to almost 444 million customers. Jake Francis, Head of Technology Security for the Information Security Technology Group (ISTG) for Vodafone in Ghana, initially approached RiverSafe to help with some log monitoring. Team’s monitoring processes T...

At the client, a multinational Oil and Gas company, the IT team provides technical support and security reporting to over 7,000 retail sites. Their work includes managing all firewalls, switches, VPNs, servers and network appliances, as well as the challenging job of keeping track of operational and compliance status. Due to limitations with its existing SIEM solution, the team in North America struggled to get full visibility on over 40% of the activities within its PCI environment. This signi...

When it comes to balancing visibility and spending, Security Incident Event Managment (SIEM) licensing models can be somewhat restrictive—something a multinational, born in the cloud technology company was becoming painfully aware of. The organization wanted to improve its security posture by ingesting more data feeds into its SIEM. However, its cybersecurity team found itself hampered by license limitations and prevented from feeding in more data by license utilization caps. Faced with...

Working in the heavily regulated and frequently targeted financial services industry, the client (a global financial services group) needed to ensure its cybersecurity posture was extremely robust to protect its infrastructure and customer data from threats. The previous threat detection solution posed challenges, notably with a high volume of false positives. Without a robust SIEM tool and relying on less effective UEBA processes, the team recognized the need to fortify its security framework...

The client, a pioneering Oil and Gas company, had formed a large central IT capability after many years of mergers and acquisitions. The team had an established on-premise capability, but it was made up of multiple siloed teams and disjointed processes. The company had been progressing a modernising cloud-first approach but had duplicated the organizational and process-based model they had on-premise during the process. Business-focused development teams The resulting cloud offering improved...

The client, a large telecommunications provider, had teams working across multiple time zones and operated a sprawling and complex IT system. The scale and density of this system made gaining visibility into IT services extremely difficult, leaving the security team blind to what was happening with its IT environment. With little-to-no operations monitoring tools in place to proactively monitor these systems, the team had no visibility on the availability of its IT services or KPIs such as fail...

In the wake of a significant merger between two major telecommunications companies, the client, a newly formed telecom giant was looking to unify and modernise security operations across the entire organization. The merged entity needed to increase asset visibility for its critical business operations, reduce the sprawl of security tooling, and unify its systems. Additionally, the company was looking to improve its overall monitoring capabilities while addressing a substantial amount of technic...

With an extensive network of customers spanning the globe, cybersecurity is a primary concern for our client. Protecting extensive infrastructure and customer data requires a robust cybersecurity posture and effective tools, but the team found its SIEM solution lacking. Flooding its security team with an unmanageable number of false positives, the solution was diverting attention away from genuine threats and leaving them vulnerable. A substandard SIEM solution was not the only security issue....

The client, a pioneering oil and gas corporation, faced significant challenges in knowledge management. The software engineering function struggled with locating the right documentation across multiple platforms such as ADO Repo, Confluence, SharePoint, and others. This fragmented system created delays and inefficiencies, with engineers spending valuable time searching for answers rather than focusing on delivery. Slow Access to Technical Information The sheer volume of documentation, cont...

The client, a British media and telecommunications company, was looking to increase operational efficiency, save time spent on identifying and addressing vulnerabilities and reduce risk by increasing visibility across their environment. With multiple security tools in different places, security data was siloed and needed to be accessed separately. This led to long periods of time spent jumping between tools to find data, and a lot of context switching when it came to looking at the results.&nbs...

As a pioneering energy supplier with a large software development practice, the client was spinning a lot of plates. Looking to streamline its software delivery process, the company targeted tooling as a potential area for improvement. With a huge number of software engineers working across the organization, tool sprawl had become a major issue. Tool proliferation was creating several challenges that were slowing down the SDLC, including: Increased costs: Each team was paying for tools indep...

With a reputation as one of the most advanced pediatric healthcare providers in the United States, Dayton Children’s Hospital has always prioritised the safety and well-being of its patients, families, and staff. To support that mission, the hospital’s Public Safety Department continuously evolves its technology infrastructure. Those efforts include the use of modern surveillance solutions to enhance visibility, efficiency, and response across its facilities. “Everyone who wal...

A major UK retailer known for its quality clothing, home products, and premium food offerings recently migrated their SIEM platform to Microsoft Sentinel, which was integrated with other Microsoft security tools, including Defender. Over the months, multiple configurations had been built up, creating complexity within the system. The alert overload problem After the migration, the SOC (Security Operations Center) team became overwhelmed by a flood of alerts—many of which were false posi...

ANSecurity, a pioneering specialist in network security and wireless solutions, has successfully delivered one of the UK education sector’s first campus-wide Wi-Fi 7 deployments at Sir William Perkins’s School, providing the Surrey-based independent school with a secure, high-capacity wireless infrastructure designed to support its growing digital learning ambitions. Serving around 580 students and 142 staff, Sir William Perkins’s School has fully embedded 1:1 iPad usage into...

Having an emergency response plan is essential for businesses of all sizes, across every industry. But in energy facilities, particularly those dealing with hazardous or explosive materials, it becomes a crucial, and often strictly regulated life safety requirement. In an emergency, not only is it critical to identify where all employees are located, but also that any visitors, contractors, or vendor partners are all accounted for and safely evacuated. When an alarm sounds, duty of care require...

Acoem, a pioneer in advanced physical security solutions, announced that a large North American utility is utilizing its ATD Gunshot Detection system to protect critical infrastructure at multiple sites across the country. Over the past few years, utilities across the United States have faced a troubling trend: gunfire directed at electrical substations and other energy assets. Whether the intent is vandalism, sabotage, or reckless target practice, the results are the same. A single rifle round...

ZeroEyes, the creators of the first AI-based gun detection video analytics platform to earn the full US Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act Designation, announced now that Ki Charter has expanded its contract following initial success. ZeroEyes’ proactive gun detection and intelligent situational awareness solution will now be deployed across the school’s San Marcos campus. Largest residential treatment center Ki Charter is the premier educational provider for students who...

One of the world’s pioneering energy companies embarked on a transformative journey to modernise its development infrastructure with an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). This case study explores how the organization tackled key challenges to remove barriers, streamline workflows, and improve developer productivity. The challenge The company’s development environment presented several obstacles that impacted team efficiency and overall productivity: Lengthy Provisioning Times:...