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Jan 12th 2007 - FortiMail Armour
GISS manufacturing customer of
five years renews fail-over Cisco Firewall and
FortiGate Firewall Support contracts. This customer
also has offices in New York and Hong Kong - with
VPNs securely connecting these multiple offices. In
2007 this customer will be trialling FortiMail,
FortiNet's end-user manageable anti-spam solution.
(See:
http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortimail.html)
 Dec 15th 2006 - More AD Support
Another GISS customer activates
Active Directory support for their FortiGate
Firewall. By installing a collector and reporting
agent on Active Directory domain controllers in
house, this customer is able to authenticate and
audit internet access via Active Directory login.
Nov 22nd 2006 - Petro-Firewall
Petro-chemicals company deploys
new Fortigate-200A Bundle (AV/IDS/WF/AS) to protect
sensitive corporate data. For ease of installation
firewall "dropped in" in transparent mode.
Nov 3rd 2006 - High Volume Support
GISS sign support contract with
large government support services organisation to
support FG-1000 HA pair synchronised over fire-optic
links on discrete secure sites.
Oct 1st 2006 - Active Directory Reporting
GISS assists a home counties NHS
Trust hospital to configure High Availability pair
for FG-1000As and FortiAnalyser to authenticate and
audit internet user activity by Active Directory
login. So instead of logs showing the IP address of
users accessing the internet, logs now show
Username. Also, any users not loged into AD are
blocked from accessing the internet.
Sept 13th 2006 - NHS Trust FortiNet
A northern counties NHS trust
deploys two more FortiNet FortiGate-800s to protect
medical data alongside with FortiAnalyser to provide
continuous audit and reporting of internet activity
on a total of 7 FortiGate Firewall systems.
Aug 23rd 2006 - Analyse & Report
In August, three top GISS
customers installed and connected FortiAnalysers to
existing Fortigate Firewalls to provide full
auditing and reporting on all company (and
non-company!) internet communications. FortiAnalyser now
audits all email, web, FTP, Terminal Services and internet
Messaging & P2P (e.g. MSN, Yahoo, Skype, Kazaa) communications to provide reports to senior IT
management. See
http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortianalyzer.html
for more information
June 8th 2006 - Performance & Motivation
Performance, Motivation &
Management company based in Milton Keynes upgrades
to FG-200A and FortiAnalyser and V3.0 Firmware to
augment existing PIX firewall. FortiAnalyser now
audits all email, web and internet messaging
communications to provide reports to senior IT
management.
May 30th 2006 - Household Name Manufacturer
Household name kitchen appliance
manufacturer deploys Fortinets in high availability
mode in HQ (2 x FG-200A) and warehouse (2 x FG-60).
High availability mode is the clustering two (or
more) FortiGates to
provide fail-over tolerance and load-balancing
to increase in performance.
April 5th 2006 - ADSL in Fortinet
GISS today started testing the
first shipments of Fortinet's new FG-60-ADSL units
that include in-built ADSL router. GISS is also
piloting the testing of new v3.0 firmware on the new
Fortigate-60A Wifi units. See
http://www.fortinet.com/doc/FGT60DS.pdf for more
information on both units (.pdf reader required)
March 10th 2006 - Traffic in Flow
Today an major London law firm, an
already well established GISS customer, activated
it's subscription to the GISS Traffic Flow
Monitoring service. GTFM provides real-time and
historical audit of bandwidth usage, session count
and other data that may affect internet traffic flow
performance. All accessible by simple, user friendly
graphical interface. See
http://www.giss-uk.com/giss_traffic_flow_monitor.html
for more information.
Jan 23rd 2006 - Expertise On-site
GISS expertise used for 2 days by
another FortiNet Reseller for on-site Fortigate
consultancy work for leading printer manufacturer.
Fortinet and Fortinet's UK distributors are
confident in using GISS expertise, confidentiality
and techno-sales approach with their customers to
promote new business for other Fortinet resellers.
2005 Dec 1st 2005 - Music Protected
UK Sheet Music Music Publisher
chooses 2 x Fortinet Fortigate FG-1000A firewalls in
high availability configuration to protect corporate
networks. This customers key requirements are deep
packet inspection, VPN termination and Spam
Filtering.
Nov 7th 2005 - Educational Thanks
Independent Day and Boarding
Heritage School in Sussex looking for Internet
Security partner to provide specialist services to
support signs with GISS. After only a few days
support, this customer reports at the end of recent
email: "Again, many thanks for you valuable advice
over the phone last week. We are already getting far
more out of the Fortigate than ever before".
Large Scottish College
conglomerate actives low-cost anti-spam service on
enterprise class FortiNet Firewall that jointly
protects 3 major colleges. The use of FortiNet's own
high performance anti-spam service provided
significant cost savings when compared with
dedicated anti-spam hardware/licensing costs.
October 10th, 2005 - 40+
Fortigates SLA
GISS renews Firewall Support SLA
(Service Level Agreement) for 40+ FortiNet Firewalls
with a global investments finance house. This
trans-national AV/IDS/Ant-Spyware secured network
deploys multiple fail-over FG-300 and satellite
FG-60s worldwide.
September 23rd, 2005 - Pan
European PIX
GISS shipped another
pre-configured Cisco PIX for a pan-European computer
repair company today for deployment in the UK. This
is the 11th firewall that is being fully remotely
managed by GISS for this customer.
Another unit will be deployed to a new location in
Italy in October 2005
September 20th, 2005 -
Computer Weekly
GISS feature in Computer Weekly
article on Medical Research Council's deployment of
FG-800 to protect Brain Sciences Unit. See article
here.
September 19th, 2005 -
Trading Room Resilience
GISS installed dual AV Firewalls
in high-availability configuration today in the
trading room of a worldwide trading company house
based in Central London. These devices have been
installed to replace Raptor firewall that would not
support bespoke application requirements.
August 26th, 2005 - GISS &
Fortinet Marketing
GISS
and Fortinet prepare for series of three advertisements
in SC Magazine (Secure Computing) encouraging users to
explore the Fortinet Firewall User Interface and to take
advantage of a GISS Internet Security Audit at special
low price.
See
advertisment
Credit Finance House use GISS to deploy a wireless AV
firewall and ADSL Router/Modem. Both products were
shipped correctly pre-configured to plug in and switch -
on saving them onsite installation charges. FirePlotter.
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Computer Repair Company use GISS to deploy their 11th
fully managed firewall from GISS. GISS manage their firewalls in England, Scotland, and Germany.
Specialist Tyre Retailer use a Unified Threat Management
(UTM) device shipped by GISS on the same day it was
requested to detect and successfully thwart an internal
network attack.
A Northern NHS Trust take delivery of two
high performance FG-800 8 port AV firewalls (4 Gigabit ports)
from GISS.
GISS performs on-site install of multi-port Gigabit AV
firewall, that includes Web Filtering for Medical
Research Council.
See Press Release.
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News GISS have been helping clients to protect their data and network devices since 2001, and developing software since 2006 - here are a few brief news bytes on some our recent business partnerships and activities: Feb 14 2012 - Leviathan Firewall Awaking...
UK Medical research company starts
to prepare FortiNet FG-3140B in new building that
has finally been completed. GISS supplied, and is
now configuring this 68Gbps (!!) firewall that
features 10 10-GbE interfaces.
Jan 17th 2012 - Out with the old, in with the new
A Cambridgeshire College upgrades to
a FortiNet FG-200B after retiring trusty FG-200A-HD
that has provided reliable service for 5 years. The
new FG-200B unit is an order of magnitude faster in
firewall throughput. And thanks to GISS, the
migration was as simple as unplugging the old unit
and plugging in the new.
Dec 23rd 2011 - HA! High Availability
A UK countrywide tyre distribution company deploys FortiNet FG-200B in high availability mode across two data centres using VLANS and OSPF to ensure maximum uptime. Sept 5th 2011 - Extreme Reliability & Longevity - FortiNet!
Major white label search provider
and GISS upgrades existing FortiGate cluster.
The FortiNet FortiGate UTM firewall cluster had not
needed to be rebooted for nearly three years. The
existing firewall cluster has now been upgraded to a high performance FortiGate-620B
(FG-620B) cluster.
July 22nd 2011 - Cisco morphs into FortiNet
UK regulatory body continues migration from Cisco security products with purchase of additional FortiNet technology.
June 21st 2011 - MRC division adopts FortiNet vulnerability scanner
A division of Medical Research Council chose FortiNet’s vulnerability scanner products
(PCI compliant) to penetration test in-house devices.
May 25th 2011 - GISS bespoke FortiNet training
Producer of perfumery and flavouring
uses GISS bespoke training services for FortiNet
products which provides more in-depth training on key features
they are specifically deploying.
Apr 17th 2011 - Balance that load carefully
GISS successfully configures
FortiNet FortiGate Load-Balancing technology in
FG-60C-HA cluster to deliver resiliant
high-performance firewalling and load-balancing for
public services website.
Mar 31st 2011 - "We don't need no education..."
GISS helps an upper school in Kent
to deploy FortiNet FortiGate "Application Control"
technology to manage pupil (borders and non-borders)
bandwidth usage and service access to the internet.
Feb 4th 2011 - iPhone4 IPsec VPN to FortiGate
GISS successfully configures first
iPhone IPSEC VPN to FortiNet FortiGate firewall,
that fully support DNS resolution via company
internal DNS servers.
Jan 3rd 2011 - Cisco Firewall SLA
GISS renews Service Level Agreement
for Cisco Firewall support for a college in East
Anglia for fourth year. The SLA provides
telephone/email support and remote debug (8x5), and
a pre-configured hardware replacement service.
Dec 31st 2010 - 10Gb interfaces Galore
GISS ships FortiNet FortiGate-3140B
(FG-3140B) to research establishment in Cambridge.
Just released by FortiNet this month, the FG-3140B
features multiple 10Gb interfaces that are much
needed in this high-speed data-crunching research
environment.
Dec 7th 2010 - FirePlotter's New Beta
GISS releases FirePlotter 2.22 Beta
that features new navigation tools and new sessions
filters (see
http://www.fireplotter.com/ProductNews.htm ).
GISS is asked at short notice to
quickly set up customised VPNs for large
distribution company based in Leeds - we are pleased
to swiftly oblige.
Major publishing house is provided
with high availability (HA) FortiNet firewalling for
at London Office.
GISS provides (customer accessible
via web) network performance monitoring of firewalls
(bandwidth usage, session counts, memory/cpu usage)
to a Public Sector Social Services Organisation
based in Rugby and London.
GISS receives positive feedback from
Cambridgeshire-based medical research company: "Thank you for the great service."
"Cheers Guys, Should also have said
how much we all have appreciated your support over
the last year, as in previous ones. Your response
and service has been exemplary at all times - even
when I think we’ve strayed out of your remit
somewhat. Pleasure doing business with you." -
feedback from Bristol based web/finance/SharePoint
software development company.
Jan 29th 2010 - May 4.0 be with you
GISS assists UK-based marketing company
to upgrade FG-310B cluster to v4.0 firmware,
offering new security features such as "Data Link
Prevention" and "Application Control".
Dec 21st 2009 - A cluster for y'all
GISS ships pre-configured FortiGate-110C-HA cluster to petroleum company in Houston, Texas
and remotely installs...
Nov 29th 2009 - Mobile that firewall
GISS helps leading UK-wide tyre
distributor to deploy Mobile Broadband and FG-50B
remote office solution in remote office with
unreliable landline internet connection - another
GISS first!
Oct 14th 2009 - Active Directory for Solicitation
Large London solicitors deploys,
with GISS assistance, FortiNet's FSAE and Active
Directory support technology to enable web activity
access and logging by AD User Groups on their
FortiGate-200A High Availability cluster.
Sep 17th 2009 - FirePlotter 2.01 released
FirePlotter 2.01 released that
includes real-time monitoring and *new* feature of
"Record" and "Replay" of firewall session
information, plus improved Cisco firewall support.
Jun 10th 2009 - GISS best for FortiNet Support
GISS awarded "Best FortiNet Support in Europe 2009" at FortiNet Conference
last night in St. Andrews, Scotland.
 Jun 3rd 2009 - FirePlotter 2.0 beta released
FirePlotter 2.0 beta released that includes real-time monitoring and *new* feature of "Record" and "Replay" of firewall session information.
May 18th 2009 - NHS Trust Co-terms
Large northern NHS trust of several hospitals aligns all license renewals on may FortiGate units to same renewal date.
May 13th 2009 - Network Upgrade
GISS seamlessly upgrades a well known household supplier of electrical goods firewall firmware on HQ and warehouse firewall clusters.
Feb 1st 2009 - Safety Music Again
Large worldwide
sheet music distributor signs GISS for another year
to support global network of FortiNet
1000As in UK and FortiNet FW-60A, FG-100A & FG-200A
firewalls in smaller worldwide locations.
Jan 5th 2009 - FirePlotter b090105 released
GISS releases firewall real-time
session monitor FirePlotter 1.4 b090105 that now
includes auto-reconnect feature in preparation for
*new* logging and replay feature scheduled for
release in 2009.
A UK-wide Tyre Distribution company
orders and successfully deploys Cisco 2810 router to
provide additional subnets for VOIP network provided
and installed by GISS.
22nd October 2008 - International Services Corporate Day & Night
GISS is pleased to
announce that large International Services Company
that delivers network services to Local Government
renewed 24x7x4 cover for FG-1000 cluster, and took
out other services with GISS this month. For more
information on GISS support services see
here.
5th September 2008 - Social Care saves network costs
Social Care Workforce
regulator reduces network costs with GISS by using
GISS expertise to reconfigure VPNs from Cisco ASAs
to utilise lower costs site to site network
connections.
31st Aug 2008 - FirePlotter downloads approaching 1000 per month
GISS is pleased to
announce the increasing popularity and interest in
its in-house developed FirePlotter software that
provides real-time bandwidth monitoring for Cisco
ASA/PIX and FortiNet FortiGate Firewalls. Downloads
range from 10-40+/day. The latest
version (v1.4) of FirePlotter is downloadable from
here:
www.fireplotter.com
July 29th 2008 - Oil Industry Efficient FortiGates
Oil Industry
efficiency firm that focuses on frontline efficiency
takes shipment of 3rd FortiGate-200A. Connecting a
new office to an existing office with FG-200A high
availability cluster using high performance VPN.
June 12th 2008 - First FortiGate-310B in UK shipped by GISS
GISS is pleased to
announce being the first UK FortiNet reseller to
ship FortiGate-310B Firewalls that features 8Gb
firewall throughput at an unprecedented low price.
GISS has actually supplied a pair of FG-310Bs to
operate in high-availability mode for a large
digital marketing and communications company based
in the City, London. For more information on the
FG-310B see:
http://www.fortinet.com/doc/FGT310B_DS.pdf
May 8th 2008 - FirePlotter released with SSH support
GISS releases FirePlotter v1.4 that
now included support for secure encrypted SSH
connection to Cisco ASA/PIX and FortiNet FortiGate
Firewalls. FirePlotter provides unique real-time
session monitoring for firewalls. See
www.fireplotter.com for more details.
March 10th 2008 - GISS Technology Partner with FortiNet
GISS are pleased to announce
becoming a Technology Partner with FortiNet (www.fortinet.com).
As part of this partnership, FirePlotter has now
completed FortiNet's Fortiverified certification
process. This means FirePlotter has been tested and
certified in FortiNet's product development labs for
interoperability with the FortiNet product range.
For more details see
http://www.fortinet.com/partners/alliances/ecosystem.html
- Technology Partners.
Northern NHS trust add 3 more
FortiGate-800s to their perimeter security to create
high-availability clusters. High-availability
clusters offer greater fault-tolerance and workload
load-balancing to increase performance.
Large worldwide
sheet music distributor signs GISS for another year
to support global network of FortiNet
1000As in UK and FortiNet FW-60A, FG-100A & FG-200A
firewalls in smaller worldwide locations.
Feb 7th 2008 - FirePlotter b070208 released
GISS releases firewall real-time
session monitor FirePlotter 1.3 b070208 onto an
unsuspecting public. This release includes more
sophisticated support for Cisco environments and new
debug code.
Another new GISS customer from the
world famous Medical Research Centre based in
Cambridge activates FortiGate-300A and
FortiAnalyzer-100B in another Laboratory Unit.
Oct 10th 2007 - More Nodes Globally
UK HQ of Global Finance House based
in Wimbledon adds two FortiGate-200A Unified Threat
Management devices to its worldwide network of 50+
FortiGates
Aug 27th 2007 - Publish a Cluster
New GISS customer, a 40 Year old London-based world-wide
publishing company after 14-day onsite evaluation,
purchases and deploys FG-200A cluster in UK, with
VPN to FG-50B cluster in US.
Jul 18th 2007 - Active Directory lets web filtering track to User
Work finalised today on Active Directory Web Filtering
support for a large Tyre Manufacturing company. Using a FortiGate Firewall and
FortiNet FSAE Agent installed on Domain Controller this company can now control
what kind of web sites employees have access to based on AD group membership.
This configuration also lets IT Managers audit which (logged in) user has
browsed which websites.
Jun 8th 2007 - FirePlotter v1.2 released
FirePlotter v1.2 released by GISS and made
available to evaluate and purchase from
www.fireplotter.com. The FirePlotter v1.2 release features
support for Cisco ASA Security devices such as 5505,
5510, 5520, 5530 or 5540.
GISS provides
a FAZ (FortiAnalyser) to Medical Research Council
Sub-division to provide logging/auditing/reporting
for all internet activities including email/web
browsing (HTTP & HTTPS)/IDS/Anti-Virus.
April 12th 2007 - ASA5510 with IDS Deployed
GISS installs Cisco ASA 5510 with
independent IDS module for UK medical portal service
replacing ageing GnatBox.
March 27th 2007 - FirePlotter Starts
GISS begins very first customer
trials of
FirePlotter at large London
Solicitors.
FirePlotter is a real-time session monitor
for Cisco and FortiNet Firewalls
providing simple to understand firewall session data
and graphical display of bandwidth usage.
FirePlotter has been developed by GISS in-house.
See:
www.fireplotter.com for more information.
March 23rd 2007 - Spam kept in a Tin
Well know manufacturer of baby
buggies, already using Cisco and FortiNet Firewall
technologies, deploys FortiNet FortiMail-100
appliance to block and manage spam emails. End Users
are able to manage and release own spam emails -
leaving the IT manager to more important business.
Feb 9th 2007 - Taxi!
Well known
and long established GISS customer London taxi
company orders and deploys new Cisco Firewall and
Switches in new office location.
Large worldwide
sheet music distributor signs GISS for another year
to support global network of Cisco and FortiNet
1000A firewalls. Same customer begins roll-out of
new FortiNet FW-60A, FG-100A & FG-200A firewalls in
smaller worldwide locations
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