To ensure the company was protected against spam emails, viruses and other malware, the german based insurance company Concordia Insurance Group used individual products from three separate providers. This meant that the insuran- ce firm’s IT system required three times as much patch and release management work and triple the expertise. When it came to web security, only regular employees were protected; independent agencies were not. One of the common results of this was that hardware provided by Con- cordia and used in sales would become infected with malware, with users then re- quiring assistance from technical support. Karlheinz Reinhold - Team leader client/server, networks and telecommunication I Concordia Insurance Group The cloud services provided by Hornetse- curit

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