Mobitel Enhances Security with Check Point VPN-1 Power Solution

Mobitel is a leading mobile telecommunications operator in Slovenia, offering cutting-edge services. The company cooperates with established industry technology, product, and service suppliers, while also developing its own innovative mobile solutions in accordance with the needs of the Slovenian market. Mobitel is committed to keeping the development in the Slovenian mobile telecommunications market comparable to the most advanced countries worldwide. The company prides itself on building long-term relationships with customers, business partners, and the environment, which has resulted in a good reputation both in Slovenia and abroad. Mobitel is not only following but also creating worldwide trends, implementing services of the future that enable convergence of speech, data processing and transporting, internet, video, television, advertising, local services, and social networks.

Mobitel, a leading Slovenian mobile telecommunications operator, was facing a significant challenge in securing its high-volume Internet communications. The company's employees relied heavily on constant Internet communications, with large quantities of data being transferred to and from their mobile multimedia Web and WAP portal, Planet. The portal, which offers a variety of content and services, was frequented by thousands of unique visitors daily. Additionally, Mobitel's network hosted a popular WAP mobile messaging system, allowing users to access the Internet from their mobile phones. Due to the high volume of network communication and usage of multimedia services and messaging system, Mobitel was threatened by several thousand system and security breach attempts from the Internet each day. To prevent these breaches, Mobitel employed four perimeter firewalls to protect employees, services, remote users, and application-development environments. However, the existing firewall solution was nearing the end of its lifecycle and was no longer receiving critical business support from the vendor. Moreover, the legacy system relied on four separate firewall systems, requiring four separate management consoles.

To address these challenges, Mobitel's IT staff sought a high-availability solution with integrated firewall and system management capability. After reviewing and testing the top three qualifiers in an isolated environment, Mobitel selected Check Point over Juniper and Cisco. Check Point's VPN-1 Power solution was chosen due to its adherence to the highest standards in computer security, strong features and functionality, redundancy, ease of management, superior system performance, and excellent local support provided by S&T Slovenia, a certified Check Point reseller. Mobitel implemented Check Point VPN-1 Power, which provides full protection of the entire network infrastructure and data from all types of attacks. The new security infrastructure consists of four firewalls, each serving a specific purpose. In addition to the VPN-1 Power firewall, Mobitel implemented the Check Point Eventia Suite for fast data analysis and correlations of events from multiple Check Point firewall systems, and for aggregating event data and automatically generating reports from numerous logs produced by various security and networking systems.

• The implementation of Check Point's VPN-1 Power solution and Eventia Suite has significantly enhanced Mobitel's security infrastructure. The VPN-1 Power solution provides full protection of the entire network infrastructure and data from all types of attacks, ensuring secure communications between employees and the Internet, as well as mobile users accessing company services over the Internet. The solution's unified security architecture simplifies management system-wide. The Eventia Suite allows for fast data analysis and correlations of events from multiple Check Point firewall systems, and for aggregating event data and automatically generating simple and easy-to-understand reports from numerous logs produced by various security and networking systems. This has improved the company's understanding of the threat picture and enabled more effective security management. The solution's ease of management and superior system performance, along with excellent local support, have also contributed to its successful implementation and operation.