{"id":34839,"date":"2020-01-23T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=34839"},"modified":"2020-01-27T08:43:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T08:43:25","slug":"rcs-mediagroup-selects-pulse-secure-to-strengthen-hybrid-it-secure-access-at-italian-publishing-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2020\/01\/23\/rcs-mediagroup-selects-pulse-secure-to-strengthen-hybrid-it-secure-access-at-italian-publishing-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulse Secure strengthens secure access at Italian publishing house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Workforce productivity is key to excelling in today\u2019s modern world and enterprises are relentlessly searching for new ways to ensure they operate with the most efficient approach in order to reduce downtime and loss of productivity. Making sure the system is protected against cyberattacks is an essential focus and a critical requirement for RCS MediaGroup, to guarantee secure access for employees. Giandomenico Oldano, Director of IT Operations for RCS MediaGroup, tells us why the company decided to implement a Pulse Secure solution. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulse Secure, a leading\nprovider of software-defined Secure Access solutions, has announced the\ndelivery of a successful project at one of Italy\u2019s largest media organisations\ndesigned to help foster mobile workforce productivity while ensuring protected,\ncompliant access to cloud and data centre applications. RCS MediaGroup employs\nover 3,000 staff including 700 journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RCS MediaGroup is one of the\nleading multimedia publishing groups, active mainly in Italy and Spain across\nall publishing fields, spanning from newspapers to magazines, from digital to\nbooks, from TV to new media and to training. It is also one of the top players\nin the advertising market and in the organisation of iconic events and major\nsporting formats, such as the Giro d\u2019Italia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RCS group publishes the\ndaily newspapers: Corriere della Sera;\nLa Gazzetta dello Sport; El Mundo, Marca<\/em>;\nand Expansion<\/em>,\nas well as numerous magazines – the most popular including Oggi<\/em>,\n<\/em>Amica<\/em>,\n<\/em>Io Donna, 7<\/em>, <\/em>YO Dona<\/em> and Telva<\/em>. Like many other popular\nenterprises, being an integral part of the region\u2019s culture and communications\nhas made RCS group a target for cyberthreat actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProtecting our systems\nagainst cyberattacks is a critical requirement, as is ensuring our staff and\njournalists have easy, flexible and secure access to their work,\u201d said Monica\nVenanzetti, Network Manager for RCS MediaGroup in Milan. \u201cTo meet this need, we\nmaintain several security controls across our network, as well as regularly\nconducting cybersecurity training. We deployed our first VPN solution in 2006\nto enable secure access to our systems and it was time to progress our\ncapabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a group, we have an\nongoing strategy to help our staff embrace smart working. This is part of an\ninitiative to improve the work-life balance of our employees and reduce their\ntravelling time, which in a busy city like Milan can be very time-consuming,\u201d\nsaid Giandomenico Oldano, Director of IT Operations for RCS MediaGroup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of this work-life\nbalance strategy, RCS MediaGroup has invested in more remote, mobile and cloud\ntechnologies and recently moved its staff onto Microsoft Office 365 to\nencourage this transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo meet this need and as\npart of our commitment to ensuring best practice secure access, we decided to upgrade our legacy VPN to provide more capacity and to\nbetter integrate with new cloud services such\nas Office 365,\u201d said Venanzetti. \u201cWe examined several options and Pulse Secure\nprovided us a modernised platform with more advanced features including\nendpoint compliance and cloud single sign-on. We found the tool comparatively\nsimpler to administer, very interoperable and with a broader featureset.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The upgrade process was\nstraightforward and the simplified management interface allows RCS MediaGroup\nto set up enterprise-wide policies that make it easy for its remote users to\nconnect to its critical publishing systems. The\nsolution also incorporates client checking technology that ensures that its\nusers\u2019 devices, both corporate and personally owned endpoints, are running the\nright system and security patches before they can attach to the corporate\nnetwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the most important\nfeatures was deep support for our users\u2019 devices including tablets, laptops and\nPCs across both Apple and Microsoft environments,\u201d said Oldano. \u201cOur upgrade has been a success and provides a lot of potential for\nfuture projects that will allow us to offer secure access for more cloud-based\napplications. Pulse Secure has been with\nus throughout this process and its technology is helping us to deliver on our\ncommitment towards smarter working for all our staff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulse Secure enables\nenterprises to centrally manage Zero Trust secure access to applications,\nresources and services that are delivered on-premise, in private cloud and\npublic cloud environments. The Pulse Access Suite delivers protected\nconnectivity, operational intelligence and threat response across mobile,\nnetwork and multi-cloud environments in order to provide easy, compliant access\nfor end-users and single-pane-of-glass management for administrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEnterprises are fortifying\ncapabilities to accelerate mobile workforce productivity and take advantage of\ncloud computing. Pulse Secure offers a proven, comprehensive and\nintegrated suite that works with an enterprise\u2019s hybrid IT infrastructure to\nenable a simpler, more manageable and scalable approach to secure access,\u201d said Paul Donovan, Vice President of EMEA\nSales at Pulse Secure. \u201cWe are pleased to have been selected by RCS MediaGroup,\na prominent and progressive market leader in multimedia publishing, and look\nforward to supporting its ongoing Digital Transformation initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pulse Secure Advanced Suite gives RCS MediaGroup a\nsimple way of enabling secure access to Office 365 for mobile users. The\nAdvanced Suite integrates the Pulse Connect Secure VPN with Pulse Workspace\nmobile security. This allows RCS to provide its users with an easy to use,\npolicy-based, secure connectivity to any internal or cloud application, direct\nfrom their mobile devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Implementation and deployment of the Pulse solution is a\nstraightforward process. Pulse Workspace is configured and managed through the\nPulse One web console. IT administrators can simply send an email inviting\nusers to self-provision their mobile device. The mobile device\u2019s native email\nclient can be automatically provisioned to connect with Office 365.\nMulti-factor authentication and device security posture checking are combined\nto provide true \u2018Zero Trust\u2019 access to applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind the scenes, the Pulse Connect Secure becomes a \u2018SAML\nidentity provider\u2019 to both internal and cloud applications. For RCS, this means\nthat on receiving a login request, Office 365 delegates authentication\nresponsibility to Connect Secure. Connect Secure verifies the user\u2019s privilege\nlevel with Active Directory, and checks the security posture before allowing\nany communication with O365. Once verified, email and data flow directly\nbetween the native email client and Office 365. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mobile device security posture checking is carried out by\nthe same \u2018Host Checker\u2019 function used for full VPN users. Mobile devices are\nmonitored before \u2013 and during \u2013 a connection to the network to ensure that it\nmeets RCS corporate security policies. Host Checker makes sure that jailbroken\nor rooted devices, or devices with unpatched operating systems, don\u2019t connect\nto critical applications. Non-compliant devices can be quarantined or\nremediated, reducing the chance of malware propagation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Workforce productivity is key to excelling in today\u2019s modern world and enterprises are relentlessly searching for new ways to ensure they operate with the most efficient approach in order to reduce downtime and loss of productivity. Making sure the system is protected against cyberattacks is an essential focus and a critical requirement for RCS MediaGroup, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":36980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,51,4,55,57,12,29,93,24],"tags":[104,13730,5311,13728,4778,3586,13729],"class_list":["post-34839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-case-study-newsletter","category-cloud","category-data-centres","category-enterprise-security","category-italy","category-software","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-microsoft-office-365","tag-mobile-workforce-productivity","tag-pulse-secure","tag-rcs-mediagroup","tag-secure-access","tag-vpn","tag-zero-trust-secure-access"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34839"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36981,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839\/revisions\/36981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}