Case Study: Cafcass (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) achieves PDNS-integrated cloud security and rapid threat protection with iboss cloud

How the largest employer of qualified social workers in the UK leveraged iboss to prevent malware, phishing, and other cyberthreats

Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service and the UK’s largest employer of qualified social workers, needed to maintain cutting‑edge cyber security as it moved its IT estate to the cloud and met NCSC Minimum Cyber Security Standards. The organisation had to integrate with the NCSC Protective DNS (PDNS) service and scan encrypted traffic for malware, but its incumbent DNS-only solution couldn’t present a consistent source IP or provide the deeper cloud‑based inspection required. Cafcass selected iboss to address these cloud‑first security and compliance challenges.

iboss deployed its iboss cloud (with iboss Cloud Connector for mobile devices) to give Cafcass 100% dedicated source IP addresses, enabling PDNS integration, SSL decryption and file scanning, and consistent security policies on laptops and iOS devices. The solution was rolled out in weeks and fully deployed in under six months, allowing Cafcass to be PDNS‑protected, retire on‑premise servers, simplify licensing, enable MOJ intranet whitelisting, reduce IT maintenance costs and expect a significant reduction in time spent remediating malware — all delivered by iboss without degrading performance.

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Peter Clark

Technical Analyst