Frontier Nursing Services (FNS, Inc.) of Hyden, Kentucky provides health care to the underserved population in rural areas of southeast Kentucky and is committed to advancing nursing through education. Because of the Medical and educational nature of the group, it is critical for FNS to keep their network running properly, securing confidential patient and student information. However, the reporting capabilities of their Cisco PIX and Barracuda Spam Firewall were inadequate and did not allow the IT department to properly assess network needs. Click here to read how Astaro Report Manager, working in tandem with Astaro Security Gateway, fills the void for a solution that has detailed reporting functionality and allows an organization to know if they're being protected.
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Frontier Nursing Service Gets Clean Bill of HealthAstaro replaces Cisco and Barracuda for better management and reporting
The Problem location." Baker explained that the variety of Frontier Nursing Services (FNS, Inc.) of Hyden, products that FNS had in place all had their own Kentucky provides health care to the under- headaches and required monitoring of all served population in rural areas of southeast individual logs and updates. A comprehensive AstaroKentucky and is committed to advancing nursing administrative console would provide FNS with a Combining best of breed applications, through education. Because of the medical and detailed assessment of network health and the proven quality of Linux and would also increase productivity by reducing this enterprise level performance, educational nature of the group, it is critical for wasted management time. Astaro's award-winning products FNS to keep their network running properly, provide the latest protection with the securing confidential patient and student Frontier Nursing was also looking for a solution best total cost of ownership. with scalability that could grow with the Software, hardware and virtual organization. appliance offerings provide users the flexibility to meet a wide variety of The Solution deployment scenarios. Distributed by Baker worked with IntraSource, Inc. to find his a growing worldwide network of more security solution. IntraSource, who has been than 3,000 resellers, Astaro products protect over 47,000 businesses in 60 providing security consulting since 1984, countries. Astaro offers free recommended Astaro as an all-in-one solution downloads www.astaro.com.that would meet all of FNS' needs. Baker ultimately decided on Astaro because "It was the Frontier Nursing Serviceonly product that met our long list of A family-centered healthcare system requirements and went above and beyond our focused on advancing nursing FNS' signature "Baby in a Saddlebag" image, practices, FNS has offered healthcare expectations for features and support." The team representing its "nurses on horseback". to under-served populations for more also implemented an Astaro Report Manager to than 80 years. Services include care information. However, the reporting capabilities work in tandem with the Astaro Security for women in childbirth, nursing for of their Cisco PIX and Barracuda Spam Firewall Gateway, providing additional and more detailed the sick, elderly and handicapped, as were inadequate and did not allow the IT reporting functionality. "We are now able to store well as social service and department to properly assess network needs. consolidated data and monitor the trends preventative public health initiatves. Chief Information Officer Frank Baker II Visit www.frontiernursing.org for ranging from bandwidth usage to the amount of explained the trouble: more information.spam and viruses the Astaro has protected us "We could not accurately monitor the firewall and from." IntraSource, Inc.other security services. This imposed a great Success with Astaro With 20 years of experience in IT deal of stress on the company, as we never truly methodologies, IntraSource provides Baker's employees are now more productive, knew if we were protected." our clients the managed services and and he has no problem doing a quick check up processes that maximize the benefits The Requirements on his security solution to assure that his of technology. Our staff of certified Baker had some specific requirements for a new network is healthy. "This product has reduced professionals deliver standards based systems designed for reliability and all-in-one security product: "Our top priority for not only work load but the stress of managing ease of management. In depth, real the new product was a user-friendly interface and protecting our network. It protects our world experience in complex network from multiple attack vectors while messaging systems, network "The Astaro Security Gateway is improving optimal performance. We now have operating systems, and digital worth its weight in gold. the ability to be proactive at protecting and communications enables IntraSource to design, implement and support -Frank Baker, Chief Information Officer monitoring our network instead of only being systems that deliver on the promise reactive." Astaro Security Gateway currently of reduc... [download for more]
