The Acorn Group is one of the largest independent estate agency networks in the South East of England and is ranked in the top 20 estate agents across the UK. The Acorn Group expansion programme has continued over the last year and now has 30 offices and divisions across London and Kent.The company's consistent growth combined with its publicly available email addresses meant that securing its IT network from the latest internet threats with a unified threat management solution was of paramount importance.

Adam Yates, IT manager, The Acorn Group, explains: "With the increase in new threats, it was crucial for us to be protected with a solution that identified and blocked all threats before they caused any damage to our network. But it was equally important to have a solution that offered web, spam and virus filtering as well as automatically pushed out security updates. From past experience, keeping our security updated and managing it ourselves was tiresome and time consuming."

"The installation took minimal time and was really simple," says Yates. "Network Box was very thorough in setting up the device and as the hardware comes with pre-installed software, it didn't require any integration. During the initial set-up we had additional requirements such as three different levels of internet access rights for our employees, which Network Box swiftly dealt with.

Since Implementing Network Box, The Acorn Group has been impressed by the results. Yates says: "Each month, Network Box identifies and stops 20,000 spam emails from entering our network, 4,000 malicious intrusion attacks, and blocks more than 8,000 requests each month to unauthorised websites - giving us the reassurance that staff are more productive and with the Push Technology on the Network-Box I know we're instantly protected against every type of threat."

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