Case Study: Cobweb achieves 99% automated network configuration and streamlined centralized security with Forcepoint NGFW (Forcepoint)

Cobweb - Customer Case Study

Cobweb, a UK-based cloud services provider founded in 1996, supports over 6,000 SMB customers and 320 partners with hosted email, Office 365 and other cloud solutions across more than 150,000 mailboxes. Managing firewalls for hundreds of locations with complex, overlapping IP schemas and performing time‑consuming data center upgrades left the company struggling to deliver secure, always-on services and to keep pace with evolving threats.

Cobweb migrated to Forcepoint NGFW virtual contexts for a more affordable, feature‑based licensing model and centralized security management with delegated local administration and site‑to‑site VPNs. The move eliminated overlapping encryption domains, cut configuration and upgrade times from hours to minutes, enabled bandwidth aggregation and seamless failover, and delivered shared logging, reporting and real‑time management — saving significant time and resources while improving network resilience.

Cobweb

Julian Dyer

Chief Technology Officer