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Over the last seven years, ScanSafe has continually expanded its customer base to include some of the world's largest corporations, numerous government agencies, and small to medium businesses. We continue to exceed our customers' expectations in terms of new service offerings, effectiveness and support, leading us to renew relationships with over 99% of our customers year on year.

"We had 8 servers before and now with ScanSafe's solutions we have been able to reduce this to 4 and believe we will get it down to 2. Being able to reduce the number of servers has allowed us to free up the time of staff enabling us to place them onto more important projects." Brendan Casey, Security Manager
Transportation and Shipping
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First Group
"We are in favour of using non-perimeter-based security, such as ScanSafe technology, because it does not inhibit the business. Business rules can be used to block the standard categories of unwanted websites. But there are huge amounts of uncategorised websites, and blocking any of these is not best done at your gateway because it takes up a huge amount of dedicated computing power."Paul Simmonds, Global Information Security Director
Chemicals
ICI
"The beauty of it is that the implementation step is one of the simplest, with a rapid rollout once we know the procedures for ScanSafe to turn on the service and for us to turn off the existing boundary security technology. The use of ScanSafe's service will allow the bank to reduce the number of staff engaging in monitoring web channel security from five to one."John Meakin, Chief Information Security Officer
Financial
Standard Chartered
"ScanSafe saves us over 100 days of senior admin time a year. It has taken the burden off our IT team and has certainly given us confidence that we are fully protected." Neil Innes, MIS Architecture and Planning Manager
Construction
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Halcrow
“We found the entire service simple to implement. We were originally concerned about the impact on the practice and whether or not it would affect the speed of network browsing however we have had no issues or performance drops. We were particularly impressed with the support team who are extremely helpful” Billy Kirkwood, Head of IT Shared Services
Legal
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Dundas & Wilson
"Since using ScanSafe we have not had any attacks. It has given us the peace of mind that we are protected at all times." Dustan Steer, Head of IT Department
Retail
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Ted Baker
"ScanSafe's technology has proved to be 100 percent effective. We have also made significant cost savings in using ScanSafe and have found the solution to be more effective than the security model we had in place previously." Jim Titmuss, Group IT Infrastructure Manager
Utilities
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Wood Group
"In the first six months of using the ScanSafe service, we've noted a dramatic reduction in the number of malware threats reported and have made significant financial and productivity savings." Lauraine Turner, IT Director
Media, Publishing and Entertainment
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Conde Nast
"The ScanSafe managed service meets all of our requirements by ensuring that harmful threats from the Web never make it past the Internet-level and onto our network. We have not been forced to purchase additional in-house software and the nature of the managed service means that I am free to concentrate on core IT issues, thus saving time and money."Steve Gill, IT Consultant
Legal
Pinsent Masons
"ScanSafe was just the full package - great protection, manageability and reporting. If someone were to offer you a Web security solution that was more effective than your current solution and could save you time and money, why wouldn't you take it? That was the situation with ScanSafe and I've never looked back." Mickey Gonzales, Director of Information Technology
Travel, Leisure and Hospitality
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San Diego
"ScanSafe enables us to provide our employees with a greater quality of service than before, without forcing us to have IT support on each site."IT Director
Transportation and Shipping
BMW
"Since using ScanSafe to manage our Web security, we haven't had a single attack from malware code or Web security threat to our IT network. We get full protection from malware and unwanted content with zero latency. It's very reassuring to know that our network is being monitored 24/7 by a dedicated team of security specialists, allowing us to focus our IT resources on other projects." Lee Bingham, IT Manager
Retail
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Paul Smith
"We feel that SaaS is the way to go in terms of security and ScanSafe provides a superior service" Chris Balmbro, Infrastructure Operations Manager
Real Estate and Land Management
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Knight Frank
"The main benefit of using ScanSafe is that once we have defined the browsing rules, we leave the service to protect our Internet access, and get on with other things. "Sam Connor, Information Security Manager
Chemicals
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Croda
"We had already protected against the threat from SMTP. ScanSafe gave us protection from HTTP and FTP threats. A managed service is simple - switch on and immediately redirect; that's it. There is no software or appliances to keep updated, and there is no negative effect on performance. The threats are eliminated before they hit the network. A big, big advantage is the absolutely transparent cost across our sites."Edmund Comber, IT Director
Financial
Rothschild
"We are particularly impressed with ScanSafe's technical support team. We tested the team's technical knowledge of its own product and also its general knowledge regarding the mechanical aspects of firewall configuration. The team's technical expertise is excellent and we rely heavily on this."Steve Marsden, Supplier Manager
Charities and NGO
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The National Trust
"Prior to working with ScanSafe we relied on a single vendor for anti-virus and we had to hope that we received security updates on new virus threats before they had time to hit us. ScanSafe Web Filtering also gives us the opportunity to enforce stricter guidelines if we find that recreational use is being abused or is at such a high level that it is affecting bandwidth and hitting the performance of our Web-based business applications." Rick Sweeney, Infrastructure Manager
Government
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Borough of Barnet
"ScanSafe's technology has so far proved to be 100 percent effective at blocking all known and emerging Web threats. It provides features that enable us to retain control over our own policies while removing the hassle and expense of maintaining an in-house system" Paul Rogers, Business Risk Manager
Financial
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PayPoint
"Because ScanSafe sits outside the network it doesn't guzzle bandwidth like internal appliances and it can be centrally managed from here in London. Any viruses and threats are stopped before they even enter our network, minimizing risk and disruption to user sessions. This has enabled us to provide our employees with a greater quality of service than before, without forcing us to have IT support on each site." Sejal Shah, ICT Strategist
Travel, Leisure and Hospitality
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LA Fitness
"Virus writers have switched from attack by mail to attack from the web, which means that any employee surfing the web could unwittingly bring a virus into the enterprise and seriously compromise corporate security. With ScanSafe we don't need to worry about constantly updating and reconfiguring our Antivirus system - it's all managed for us." Chris Mitchell, IT Director
IT and Telecommunications
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Morse
"Our IT systems are critical to the everyday running of what is an extremely busy organization. Using our online booking system, we manage around 400 conferences per year and when guests are staying, they expect uninhibited Internet access as part of the service. In line with this we wanted a solution that would not only guard against web-borne threats, but also allow our members free rein on where they surf. ScanSafe came on-board and within two days we had a solution that is simple to manage and maintain." Tansy Cork, IT Manager
Healthcare
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Royal Society of Medicine
"ScanSafe's service has been flexible and really easy to manage. It has been blocking access to the appropriate sites as well as some nasty spyware and viruses - nothing has got through. Neither our employees nor our IT team have had any complaints."Chris Murchison, Operations Engineer
Gaming
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Victor Chandler
"We view Web-based communication as a valid and relevant business application. Any ingress to our corporate network from viruses or any other kind of malware is taken extremely seriously." Walter Wilson, Group Network and Security Manager
Transportation and Shipping
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VShips
"The Bottom Line - By deploying ScanSafe, Paul Davril improved its worker productivity, freed up telecommunications bandwidth, and improved information sharing practices." Nucleus Research, May 2006
Retail
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PDI
"It was very quick and easy to implement. It was doing the blocking we needed, and it had flexibility in terms of what we could block." Bill Newman, Technical Services Manager
Insurance
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Rural Mutual Insurance
"We were impressed that users are even protected from malware and spyware when they are off site. This allows us to relax in the knowledge that our network is fully protected by ScanSafe at all times." Bill Goodwin, IT Manager
Education
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Cleveland College of Art and Design
"With a combination of our anti-spyware being enhanced and the implementation of ScanSafe, we have seen a significant drop in time spent dealing with threats and cleaning up infected computers. We have also spent less time on admin since deploying the service." John Cafferty, Global ICT Manager
Chemicals
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Vitrex
"Our reasoning for choosing ScanSafe was simple - the service saves our company time, money and hassle. ScanSafe's reporting capabilities are also superior - this has been especially helpful on the management side of things. If I need to run a report on certain user, I can. This wasn't an option with our previous Web security solution." Jon Coleman, Director of Information Technology
Legal
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BSCR
"With normal desktop anti-virus software, we had a number of machines that got infected with Spyware and adware, the types of things where it changed the default home page and you couldn't reset it. Now, basically, we get delivered a clean Internet feed, so none of that stuff gets through. We don't have that overhead anymore."Simon Hicks, IT Director
Financial
Aberdeen
"When we turned the service on, ScanSafe immediately identified over 200 infected desktops throughout the network"Chris Darvell , Security Manager
Real Estate and Land Management
BPB
"ScanSafe's managed service solution was attractive from the outset because it didn't require our own resources to install and manage equipment and software across both our New York and Los Angeles offices. Prior to selecting ScanSafe, we were seeing an average of 400 incidents of spyware and adware per week. Since our deployment, all of our users are secure and it's been nothing short of a miracle to be able to reallocate more than 30 extra hours of IT resources per week to other activities."Robert Praul, Project Manager
Retail
PDI
"I don't think we had ever thought we were going to get hit [with a virus] through IM, we thought of it as low risk. It was just like great, there's another layer I need to cover, I need to have some kind of protection for IM, if [IM Control is] anything like the Web product.....we'll use it."Gavin Atkinson, Chief Technology Officer
Recruitment Services
Russel Reynolds
"The ScanSafe service is a hassle free way of managing the ever growing threat of Internet viruses and malevolent attacks. The Internet plays a crucial role to our business but with ScanSafe we can be confident that our Internet users are protected against Web threats before they wreak havoc with our systems"Chris Simmons, IT Director
Legal
Campbell Hooper
"We chose the ScanSafe solution in order to protect our network against the increasing threat of Web bourne viruses. With ScanSafe's managed service I can concentrate on our core business and leave the job of virus protection to the experts"Nick Scott, IT Director
Real Estate and Land Management
Nelson Blackwell
"ScanSafe has not only eliminated untold hours of malware-related downtime, but saved thousand of dollars in associated travel-related expenses to get those crashed systems back online. The deployment was simple and malware infections have become non-existent"Mike Stump, Director of Information Technology
Travel, Leisure and Hospitality
Roundtable Corp