Award-winning IT projects: List of winners

Over the last three years, more than 110 enterprise IT organizations have won Enterprise All-Star Awards for their great network projects. Find them in the list below, or click to see them mapped.

Security

1-800-Flowers.com
Carle Place,N.Y.
Year: 2006
Project paid for itself in first year while providing real-time network visibility and enforcing policy-driven controls on network behavior.
Vendor: Securify
Technology: Internal threat monitoring
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Over the last three years, more than 110 enterprise IT organizations have won Enterprise All-Star Awards for their great network projects. Find them in the list below, or click to see them mapped.

Security

1-800-Flowers.com
Carle Place,N.Y.
Year: 2006
Project paid for itself in first year while providing real-time network visibility and enforcing policy-driven controls on network behavior.
Vendor: Securify
Technology: Internal threat monitoring
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Appalachian State University
Boone,N.C.
Year: 2006
A $3.5 million network upgrade allowed for the registration of 6,000 students in three days without usual security troubleshooting hassles.
Vendor: Enterasys Networks
Technology: Security risk management
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BNSF Logistics
Springdale, Ark.
Year: 2006
In a quick, 90-day project that cost less than $20,000, the company built a secure network foundation.
Vendor: Cisco
Technology: Security and network infrastructure
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California Department of Health Services
Sacramento,Calif.
Year: 2007
Secures all agency data, and reduces cost of lost laptop to $300, from $1,200 per-incident for unencrypted devices, plus the $72,000 per incident required to notify affected individuals of a data breach. Per-year savings estimated at $500,000.
Vendor: GuardianEdge Technologies; ProofPoint
Technology: Enterprise data encryption
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Career Education Corp.
Hoffman Estates,Ill.
Year: 2007
For a $400,000 investment, gained SOX compliance and comprehensive reporting, combined external and internal threat management, improved response time to security threats, and increased ROI on IT resources.
Vendor: netForensics, Rippletech
Technology: Security information management
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Credit Suisse
New York,N.Y.
Year: 2006
Realized full ROI on $700,000 investment in little more than a year, with three-year ROI totaling $2.1 million as firm achieved accurate risk profiles and threat mitigation across the network.
Vendor: Skybox Security
Technology: Application dependency mapping
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FirstHealth of the Carolinas
Pinehurst,N.C.
Year: 2006
Proactive security mode, at a cost of $240,000, expected to reduce network downtime for a savings of $250,000 in the first year.
Vendor: Cisco, Websense
Technology: Centralized security management
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Harvard Business School
Boston,Mass.
Year: 2006
Went from wide-open campus network to one that is 99.9% locked down, without anyone noticing. Over three years, realized $220,000 in savings from improved staff productivity and stablized ISP costs.
Vendor: McAfee; Packeteer
Technology: Network security
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Lehman Brothers
New York,N.Y.
Year: 2005
Automated user-access rights enabled account setup in 20 minutes and denial in 60 seconds.
Vendor: Thor Technologies
Technology: Identity management
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Mine Safety and Health Administration
Arlington,Va.
Year: 2005
Improved agency's security rating from an F to a B.
Vendor: netForensics
Technology: Security information management
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National Instruments
Austin,Texas
Year: 2005
$175,000 project for protecting headquarters and seven other sites from worms.
Vendor: Mirage Networks
Technology: Anti-virus protection
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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York,N.Y.
Year: 2006
Significantly reduced the number of hours needed to deal with attacks, viruses and unauthorized net access.
Vendor: CounterStorm
Technology: Internal intrusion prevention
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Novartis
Basel, Switzerland
Year: 2005
Gets current view of security posture, ability to compare changes over time.
Vendor: Qualys-based SeTraSys and Kaizen
Technology: Automated security management
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Ochsner Health System
New Orleans,La.
Year: 2006
Cut time for database audits from weeks to one hour, without compromising network or database availability or performance, for $10,000 in software.
Vendor: Application Security
Technology: Automated database security
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Papa Gino's and D'Angelo Sandwich Shops
Dedham,Mass.
Year: 2006
Gained chain of trust from user machine to server, for minimal cost of $6,900 and ROI of $22,400 in first year.
Vendor: Dell; Wave Systems
Technology: Chip-level security, policy-based switching
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Principal Financial Group
Des Moines,Iowa
Year: 2005
A 50% productivity improvement is attributed to SSL VPN and central policy management, implemented in $400,000 project.
Vendor: Not available
Technology: SSL VPN
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Prudential Financial
Newark,N.J.
Year: 2006
Cut the number of data loss incidents by 90%, saving millions of dollars in remediation and litigation.
Vendor: Vontu
Technology: Data loss prevention
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Southwest Washington Medical Center
Vancouver,Wash.
Year: 2006
Invested $100,000 in a sign sign-on initiative that created a consistent user interface and secure policy management.
Vendor: Imprivata
Technology: Single sign-on
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University at Buffalo Health Sciences
Buffalo,N.Y.
Year: 2006
Realized $20,000 ROI in first year on $250,000 investment in agent-based security platform to increase security and ensure HIPAA compliance.
Vendor: Elemental Security
Technology: Network access control
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill,N.C.
Year: 2005
Automated system reduces virus infections and compromised machines by 70% in one-year period.
Vendor: Enterasys Networks
Technology: Intrusion detection and prevention
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Upper Canada District School Board
Ontario, Canada
Year: 2007
Securely provides 100% wireless coverage, for internal and external users, at 120 sites. Virtually eliminates time required for moves, adds and changes for 300 wireless access points, from 600 man-hours a month, providing a ROI of nearly $100,000 a year.
Vendor: Nevis Networks
Technology: Network access control
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