Enfield borough council deploys 3,000 laptops for homeworking

Nicola Brittain, Computing, Wednesday 2 December 2009 at 18:02:00

Enfield borough council deploys Sophos encryption technology across laptops
to allow homeworking

Enfield borough council has begun implementing a transformation programme
that has seen it standardise an estate of 4,500 computers and deploy Sophos
security software making it compliant with government regulations.

The programme has seen it roll out 3,000 laptops, to replace PCs and allow
remote working, the 1,500 remaining desktops will come from Dell.

The council has also installed a Juniper SSL VPN front end which connects to
a back end comprising six Citrix servers.

The next phase of the council?s transformation programme will see it
virtualise its server environment, which will mean it can get rid of all but two
of the servers, according to Alan Andrews technical architecture and delivery
manager.

The next stage for the council will be to reduce the amount of space
available, and it is considering shutting several buildings as more employees
work from home.

In accordance with the Government Connect Secure Extranet?s (GCSX?s) Code of
Connection (CoCo) regulations the council has implemented a encryption
technology from Sophos, the technology is FIPS 140-2 compliant. The solution was
originally provided by data loss protection company Utimarco which was bought by
Sophos last summer.

GCSX?s CoCo regulations aim to improve security and allow local government to
share data with the back end of central government.

The Sophos system has been set to recognise unique IDs attributed to council
provided USB sticks to enable workers to transfer information between machines.

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