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Talmanite Inc. – a North Americas brokerage firm – has been rapidly hiring new sales people over the past year. As part of Talmanite’s growth strategy, an increasing number of employees are travelling more frequently across Canada and the United States. In order to be effective while on the road, Talmanite’s mobile work requires full access to their desktop, files, applications and the corporate network.

The Challenge: A Scalable Remote Access Solution for Growing Company

Steven – the director of IT for Talmanite – has traditionally equipped the company’s mobile workforce with locked-down laptops and VPN accounts to access network resources while outside of the office. However, as Talmanite’s mobile workforce grows and traditionally non-mobile employees have begun expressing interest in working from home, Steven has realized that his current remote access solution might not make the most sense for the organization anymore.

Some problems that Steven identified with his current remote access strategy include:

The growing risk of data leakages: With a growing number of people removing corporate data from the firewalls using their laptops and VPN accounts, there was a growing risk of data leakages caused by lost or stolen laptops.
Meeting security requirements: It was growing challenge to ensure that all remote access users were abiding to corporate security policies when removing files from the firewall.
Less time for value-added projects: Steven found that his IT team spent more time troubleshooting third-party solutions than they spent implementing value-added solutions for their organization.

Steven was interested in finding a cost-effective and scalable remote access solution that would solve these current challenges and have the flexibility to seamlessly integrate with Talmanite’s future IT infrastructure upgrades.

Implementing the Route1 Solution

Steven discovered Route1’s identity & entitlement management solution and decided to trial Route1’s TruOFFICE™ service with the Route1 MobiKEY® as a possible alternative to his existing remote access infrastructure. Steven evaluated TruOFFICE and MobiKEY in Talmanite’s IT environment and determined that the solution was a perfect fit for the company, providing an end-to-end solution from authentication, connectivity, security and access.

Specific advantages Steven identified while trialing TruOFFICE were:

All data remains behind the corporate firewall, leaving the remote device without a foot print of the work session
No reconfigurations of the corporate firewall were required
Two-factor authentication required for access

Steven purchased 100 TruOFFICE subscriptions and 100 Route1 MobiKEYs for Talmanite’s mobile sales force. To assist his IT team with managing and provisioning the TruOFFICE service and MobiKEY deployment, and employ security policies and reporting mechanisms, Steven also purchased:

MobiNET Administration and Provisioning™ (MAP): A web-based portal that allows IT administrators within an organization to manage usage policies for subscribers of Route1’s services such as TruOFFICE and PurLINK®, and products such as MobiVDI® and Route1 MobiKEY. This simple-to-access provisioning tool also enables organizations to cost-effectively manage large-scale deployments of Route1’s products and services.
EnterpriseLIVE® AG: The EnterpriseLIVE AG is a hardware network appliance that allows IT administrators to monitor, manage and audit the network users within their organization. When installed on an enterprise network, the EnterpriseLIVE AG allows IT administrators to employ organization-specific IT security policies, perform audits and generate reports to comply with regulatory and security mandates, such as SOX, HIPAA and PIPEDA.

A Successful Implementation across the Organization

Steven and his team easily deployed the EnterpriseLIVE AG appliance into Talmanite’s network with very limited reconfiguration required and managed the provisioning and usage policies of MobiKEY and the TruOFFICE subscriptions using MAP. The MobiKEYs were deployed to Talmanite’s mobile employees who were able to set-up their remote access capabilities in less than five minutes.

After only a few months operating TruOFFICE and MobiKEY, Steven has already noticed the benefits of his decision:

Steven’s IT team spends less time troubleshooting remote access issues
Steven no longer worries about the threat of data leakages from lost or stolen laptops
Talmanite operates knowing they are meeting their regulatory requirements
The simplicity and success of TruOFFICE is inspiring Steven to move towards a virtual desktop infrastructure using Route1 MobiVDI
The low cost of additional TruOFFICE subscriptions and MobiKEYs allows Steven to provide more employees with teleworking capabilities

To obtain more information on how Route1 and the TruOFFICE service can assist your organization, please contact a Route1 sales representative at +1 866-286-7330 or by email at sales@route1.com.