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“One of the most important features
was deep support for our users’
devices including tablets, laptops and
PCs across both Apple and Microsoft
environments,” said Oldano. “Our
upgrade has been a success and
provides a lot of potential for future
projects that will allow us to offer
secure access for more cloud-based
applications. Pulse Secure has been
with us throughout this process and
its technology is helping us to deliver
on our commitment towards smarter
working for all our staff.”
Pulse Secure enables enterprises to
centrally manage Zero Trust secure
access to applications, resources
and services that are delivered on-
premise, in private cloud and public
cloud environments. The Pulse Access
Suite delivers protected connectivity,
operational intelligence and threat
response across mobile, network and
multi-cloud environments in order to
provide easy, compliant access for
end-users and single-pane-of-glass
management for administrators.
“Enterprises are fortifying capabilities
to accelerate mobile workforce
productivity and take advantage of cloud
computing. Pulse Secure offers a proven,
comprehensive and integrated suite
that works with an enterprise’s hybrid IT
infrastructure to enable a simpler, more
manageable and scalable approach to
secure access,” said Paul Donovan, Vice
President of EMEA Sales at Pulse Secure.
Our upgrade has
been a success and
provides a lot of
potential for future
projects that will
allow us to offer
secure access for
more cloud-based
applications.
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“We are pleased to have been selected
by RCS MediaGroup, a prominent
and progressive market leader in
multimedia publishing, and look forward
to supporting its ongoing Digital
Transformation initiatives.”
The Pulse Secure Advanced Suite
gives RCS MediaGroup a simple way of
enabling secure access to Office 365
for mobile users. The Advanced Suite
integrates the Pulse Connect Secure
VPN with Pulse Workspace mobile
security. This allows RCS to provide its
users with an easy to use, policy-based,
secure connectivity to any internal or
cloud application, direct from their
mobile devices.
We decided to
upgrade our legacy
VPN to provide more
capacity and to
better integrate with
new cloud services.
Implementation and deployment
of the Pulse solution is a
straightforward process. Pulse
Workspace is configured and managed
through the Pulse One web console.
IT administrators can simply send an
email inviting users to self-provision
their mobile device. The mobile device’s
native email client can be automatically
provisioned to connect with Office
365. Multi-factor authentication and
device security posture checking are
combined to provide true ‘Zero Trust’
access to applications.
Behind the scenes, the Pulse Connect
Secure becomes a ‘SAML identity
provider’ to both internal and cloud
applications. For RCS, this means that
on receiving a login request, Office 365
delegates authentication responsibility
to Connect Secure. Connect Secure
verifies the user’s privilege level with
Active Directory, and checks the
security posture before allowing any
communication with O365. Once
verified, email and data flow directly
between the native email client and
Office 365.
Mobile device security posture checking
is carried out by the same ‘Host
Checker’ function used for full VPN
users. Mobile devices are monitored
before – and during – a connection
to the network to ensure that it meets
RCS corporate security policies. Host
Checker makes sure that jailbroken
or rooted devices, or devices with
unpatched operating systems, don’t
connect to critical applications. Non-
compliant devices can be quarantined
or remediated, reducing the chance of
malware propagation. u
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