Case Study: Stephenson Harwood achieves robust endpoint control and data-loss prevention with Heat Software

Stephenson Harwood - Customer Case Study

Stephenson Harwood is an international law firm based in London with seven offices and around 750 staff that needed to protect sensitive client data and control what is brought onto its corporate network. With USB devices and unauthorised applications posing data leakage and malware risks, the IT team required transparent endpoint visibility and enforceable acceptable use policies that would integrate with their Novell eDirectory and not impede lawyers’ work across roughly 500 London endpoints.

The firm selected SecureWave’s Sanctuary, a whitelist-based application and device control solution, and worked closely with SecureWave to test and integrate it with eDirectory before rolling it out across the London office. Sanctuary gave administrators clear monitoring and auditing of files and applications, enabled enforcement of device/application policies, reduced PC problems and malware exposure, freed IT resources, and maintains a low-profile presence that doesn’t disrupt legal teams—with potential future rollouts to overseas offices.

Stephenson Harwood

Chris Petrie

IT Director