Case Study: Connex Credit Union achieves $40K annual savings and reliable secure remote access with SonicWall

Connex cuts costs with flexible, reliable SonicWall mobility solution

Connex Credit Union, a 120-employee U.S. financial institution, needed a simplified, secure way for employees to work remotely and to decontaminate remote traffic before it entered the network after repeated connectivity failures with their Check Point firewall. Connex selected SonicWall and deployed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA), SonicWall Email Security and a SonicWall NSA Series firewall to provide reliable remote access and stronger traffic inspection.

SonicWall’s solution decrypts and decontaminates VPN traffic, enforces authentication and granular access policies, verifies outbound traffic in real time, and provides automatic failover to a DSL backup—letting mobile users access email and file shares as if on the network and reducing help-desk requests. Connex reports greater reliability and flexibility, lower operating costs (about $15,000 saved in year one and $40,000 annually within five years), and improved security thanks to SonicWall.

Connex Credit Union

Michael Giorgio

Director of IT