CASE STUDY SECURE UNIFIED ACCESS AT BLACKPOOL COUNCIL A major town of nearly 150,000 people, Blackpool is a well- known holiday resort and the third largest settlement in North West England, after Manchester and Liverpool. Blackpool Council provides network services for most of the state schools and public libraries in the area, as well as for a multitude of its own office sites. The challenges Blackpool Council faced were threefold; build defenses to combat an increasingly changing threat landscape, drive efficiencies due to school budget cuts, and safeguard citizens under the new Prevent guidelines. Prevent is one of four strands of the UK government’s counter-terrorism strategy, known as Contest, first created in 2003, and its remit later widened in 2011. Prevent is designed to

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