The Sefar Group – Leading Manufacturer of Monofilament

The Sefar Group –
Leading Manufacturer of
Monofilament Precision Fabrics
Organization
Sefar AG, Switzerland
Workforce
2,100
IT infrastructure
Around 1,000 clients and laptops
IT security solution
Sophos Endpoint Security & Control with 1,000 licenses
The Sefar Group A customer success story
About the customer
As a world-leading manufacturer
of functional monofilament
precision fabrics - created from
single-fiber monofilaments
that are often thinner than a
human hair - the Sefar Group
has been developing customized
separating, coating, and dosing
solutions for process filtration
in the foodstuff, chemical,
pharmaceutical, mining, and
environmental technology
industries for 180 years. The
filter components and types
that Sefar manufactures from
these precision fabrics are
primarily used in screen printing,
household appliances, automotive
engineering, architecture, and
medical and acoustic applications
(cell phones). The company
has sites across the world with
subsidiaries in 21 countries and
sales offices in a further 75
countries. Sefar AG generates
annual sales of 360 million Swiss
Franks.
The Sefar Group A customer success story
Company-specific requirements of the Sefar Group
Rectifying the problems caused by viruses and malware
is time-consuming. This can quickly have a negative
effect on day-to-day business as projects and jobs
experience delays or run over budget. To fully protect
its IT systems against current and future attacks, Sefar
AG required a reliable and efficient security solution
that was also easy to manage. After conducting its own
research into potential solutions, comparing a number
of providers, and completing a successful test phase,
Sefar decided upon Endpoint Security & Control by
Sophos. In addition to the successful tests, three further
factors contributed significantly to Sefar‘s decision in
favor of this IT solution:
ÌÌ Fully automated updates and central management of
all functions
ÌÌ Additional options such as application and device
control
ÌÌ The good price-performance ratio
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The Sefar Group A customer success story
“The number of computers included in the initial
installation was very good. The support for deinstalling
the predecessor solution was also very good and
reduced the cost of the project significantly.”
Claudio Zollet, Head of IT at Sefar AG
Solution implementation and
rollout proceeded without a hitch
Overview: Sophos Endpoint
Security and Control
Thanks to the highly intuitive user
guidance provided by the IT security
solution, Sefar was able to perform
the implementation itself and largely
without external assistance. Two
employees were able to complete the
software rollout on 1,000 computers
at the company within just two weeks,
almost entirely without help from the
Support team.
Sophos Endpoint Security and Control
comprises the following components:
Claudio Zollet praised the support that
was received as highly professional
with rapid response times. The
company has been using the security
solution in all its subsidiaries in 21
countries worldwide since 2005 and
completed a free upgrade to the
improved Version 9.0 in 2010.
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Sophos Enterprise Console
Sophos Anti-Virus
Sophos Client Firewall
Sophos Data Control
Sophos Data Leakage Prevention
(DLP)
ÌÌ Sophos Application Control
ÌÌ Sophos Network Access Control
(NAC)
ÌÌ Sophos Enterprise Remote Console
(Helpdesk Console)
The Sophos Endpoint Security and
Data Protection product variant
includes an encryption component
for the hard drives of Windows and
Macintosh computers.
A small business version of Sophos
Endpoint Security is also available with
the following components:
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United Kingdom Sales:
Tel: +44 (0)8447 671131
Email: [email protected]
Sophos Administration Console
Sophos Anti-Virus
Sophos Anti-Spam
Sophos Client Firewall
Sophos Data Control
Sophos Application Control
North American Sales:
Toll Free: 1-866-866-2802
Email: [email protected]
Boston, USA | Oxford, UK
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Australia & New Zealand Sales
Tel: +61 2 9409 9100
Email: [email protected]
The system requirements for all
components can be viewed at
sophos.com/products/all-sysreqs.html.
A free 30-day trial version is also
available for download from sophos.com.
Conclusion: Sophos Endpoint
Security & Control meets all
expectations – especially for
efficient and transparent handling
With Sophos Endpoint Security and
Control, Sefar was able to move
away from the collection of individual
solutions it had previously employed
and replace them with one unified,
effective, and proven overall solution:
“The Sophos solution is characterized by
its high performance and low workload.
It supports multiple platforms, operating
systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix etc.)
and devices, which can all be managed
centrally using one single console.
Although we used similar technologies
with comparable performance
characteristics in the past, they didn’t
offer a ‘one stop shop’ solution with the
required functionality,” explains Claudio
Zollet, Head of IT at Sefar AG.

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