Case Study: Ada County achieves centralized multi-agency security and simplified compliance with Check Point Software

Ada County - Customer Case Study

Ada County, Idaho — which manages networks across six cities and multiple county departments — needed to secure a complex, multi-agency environment while keeping separate network zones and policies for each agency. The IT team faced the administrative burden and cost of operating disparate, multi-vendor security tools and wanted a scalable, consolidated solution to simplify management, strengthen data protection, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Ada County deployed Check Point 12400 and 4600 appliances at its primary and disaster recovery datacenters, UTM-1 devices at agency sites, and a Smart-1 management appliance, running Software Blades for Firewall, IPS, DLP, Application Control, Identity Awareness, Mobile Access, URL Filtering and IPsec VPN. Centralized management let a single administrator control the environment, cut audit time dramatically, prevent accidental data leaks, speed deployments, and deliver strong ROI through simplified maintenance, consolidated subscriptions, and improved HIPAA/CJIS compliance.

Ada County

Bret Lopeman

IT Security Engineer