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Municipality of Avezzano chose Awingu to solve their remote working challenge
The Municipality of Avezzano is a small town in the province of L’Aquila (Abruzzo) and its territory extends over 100 square kilometers. It is made up of the main town and some hamlets and has more than 40.000 inhabitants. The IT service of the municipality consists of 4 people, who directly provide support and maintain the infrastructure for the approximately 200 employees equipped with IT tools.
During the 2020 pandemic lockdown, the municipality’s ICT service faced the challenge of “smart working” in order to allow their employees to continue in their valuable work of service to citizens and institutions. The classic equipment of municipal employees were desktop devices, posing an additional challenge to the Municipality’s ITC team: since it was not possible to equip each employee with a laptop, they were looking for a way to allow connections from the outside via the employees’ personal devices. The challenge was especially daunting considering the heavy security requirements an institution such as Avezzano has to adhere to.
Connecting to desktops in the municipal office
"Our partner IFIConsulting suggested Awingu to us, and we immediately identified simplicity and ease of use - combined with a high level of security - as the key elements of the solution. In a short time we installed and configured Awingu, enabling the security of two-factor authentication and thus allowing our users to connect securely from home to their PC located at the municipal offices, using any device they had at home."
Alberto Di Berardino
Awingu was installed on a VMWare virtual machine and was configured by enabling the MFA function and then connecting the various desktop machines with RDP. On the devices used by remote users, the software for the management of USB keys for the digital signature of documents was configured and integrated into Awingu, which was another critical element indispensable for the proper performance of the public officials’ work.
In addition, a whole set of security features were configured in Awingu to prevent the presence of administration data on local devices.
All the work was carried out independently by the IT department of the municipality: “even the integration with LDAP and in general, all the configuration was easy and fast”.
"All users were very satisfied with the adopted solution and we didn't find any complaints, not even from users using limited bandwidth connections."
Giacomo Calisse
The key role played by our technology partner IFIConsulting allowed us to identify the solution to our challenge in a very short time. IFIConsulting’s constant presence and collaboration were invaluable in addressing existing issues and were crucial in defining our future needs in terms of resources and performance.
About Version 2
Version 2 is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company develops and distributes IT products for Internet and IP-based networks, including communication systems, Internet software, security, network, and media products. Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.
About Awingu
Awingu produces a browser-based Unified Workspace solution. It allows users to work and collaborate from virtually anywhere using any device compatible with HTML5 browsers. As a turnkey solution, Awingu offers businesses the ease and convenience of platform-independent mobility and offers everything you need to stay productive: legacy and cloud applications, documents and data. Awingu requires zero configuration and zero client software installation, making IT administration extremely simple.
ESET named a ‘Strategic Leader’ in 2021 AV-Comparatives’ Endpoint Prevention and Response Test
BRATISLAVA — January 20, 2022 — ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, has been named a Strategic Leader in the 2021 Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) Comparative Report, one of the most comprehensive tests of endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and endpoint security products ever performed by AV-Comparatives. The ESET PROTECT Enterprise bundle, which includes the ESET PROTECT management console, ESET Endpoint Security, ESET Enterprise Inspector and ESET Dynamic Threat Defense, version 8.1, was tested in the report.
AV-Comparatives, a leading independent testing organization, well known for offering innovative real-world environment testing, subjected the products of 10 vendors to a set of 50 targeted attacks, each deployed by a variety of techniques and tactics.
Based on this in-depth testing, AV-Comparatives developed an Enterprise EPR CyberRisk Quadrant™ that “factors in the effectiveness of each product at preventing breaches, the calculated savings resulting from this, the purchase costs of the product, and the product’s accuracy costs (incurred due to false positives).” ESET and its solutions were named a Strategic Leader in the quadrant — the highest certification in the quadrant. Strategic Leaders are defined as “EPR products that have a very high return on investment, and provide very low total cost of ownership… due to exceptional technical capabilities, combined with reasonable costs.” Furthermore, Strategic Leaders “develop ground-breaking ideas and implement these impressively in their products.”
ESET achieved high scores in the categories of active prevention, passive response, and combined prevention/response capabilities, scoring 96%, 100%, and 98%, respectively.
As stated in the report, ESET PROTECT Enterprise did exceptionally well when facing the 50 separate attack scenarios and demonstrated that it is an outstanding enterprise product. The easy-to-use intuitive console was praised, as well as the contextual data provided in order for security analysts to prioritize, mitigate, and further investigate threats.
Righard Zwienenberg, senior research fellow at ESET, noted, “We are very proud yet again to see ESET and ESET PROTECT Enterprise being recognized as a Strategic Leader. This attests that our prevention and response capabilities are effective and that SOC analysts are provided useful contextual data to properly assess and prioritize observed threats.”
Andreas Clementi, CEO and founder of AV-Comparatives, commented, “ESET not only achieved a high combined prevention and response score in the test, but also demonstrated outstanding overall detection and reporting capabilities. The test results contributed to ESET’s low total cost of ownership and ensured ESET’s position once more as a Strategic Leader in the second edition of this test by AV-Comparatives.”
To learn more about ESET’s award-winning solutions, click here.
About Version 2
Version 2 is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company develops and distributes IT products for Internet and IP-based networks, including communication systems, Internet software, security, network, and media products. Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.
About ESET
For 30 years, ESET® has been developing industry-leading IT security software and services for businesses and consumers worldwide. With solutions ranging from endpoint security to encryption and two-factor authentication, ESET’s high-performing, easy-to-use products give individuals and businesses the peace of mind to enjoy the full potential of their technology. ESET unobtrusively protects and monitors 24/7, updating defenses in real time to keep users safe and businesses running without interruption. Evolving threats require an evolving IT security company. Backed by R&D facilities worldwide, ESET became the first IT security company to earn 100 Virus Bulletin VB100 awards, identifying every single “in-the-wild” malware without interruption since 2003.
