Channel 10 is one of the two leading commercial TV broadcasters in Israel. The station broadcasts News, current Events and Entertainment seven days a week and embodies the essence of a most dynamic and energetic work environment. Naturally in such a fast paced workplace consideration of Information Systems in general and information Security in particular are not top of mind in light of the considerable pressures of real time broadcasting.  The station has several offices in Israel in addition to its Headquarters, and employs several hundred staffers in Israel and numerous subcontractors and partners in Israel and abroad.

	In addition to its broadcasting enterprise, Channel 10 operates the internet portal NANA 10 (http://www.nana10.co.il/) together with the Netvision 013 Internet Service Provider. This portal posts independent content as well as shared programming with the TV station.

The Objective and the Challenge

1. Manage & control of all access ports / points to the organization’s networks. The Networks which are comprised of numerous IT devices and IP components designated for broadcast.
2. Allowing staffers, vendors and partners access to organizational resources according to the predetermined organizational policy.
3. Establishing and installation of the selected solution fast and without any interruption to the workflow and the performance of the station.

Situation and description of the portnox™ solution.

The nature of Channel 10 as a Broadcast enterprise which operates on a 24/7 schedule, dictated a careful, detailed and elaborate investigation of Access Control Management solutions for its complex IT Network.  It is the constant need for the 24/7 availability and accessibility to information which makes the selection of a Network Access Control solution so critical.  Channel 10 decided to incorporate the portnox™ solution first and foremost because portnox™ is a total and complete solution for an Access Control Layer.

What do they say at Channel – 10 about portnox™:

Efie Dilmoni, VP of Technology for Channel 10 says:

“At Channel -10 we have staffers, partners, subcontractors and many other folks who work on the daily chores and operations. Many of these people use for their work a laptop and constantly need the recourses of the net. The organization has to provide them with the required information in such a manner where the organization will not be exposed to risk on one hand and on the other will not block the access to information to such devices which are to be considered as un-managed devices.

The significance of the portnox™ is in the speed and the transparency of its assimilation into the existing Channel – 10 network operations.  Subsequent to putting all of our communications devices ‘on the same page’ and in accordance to policy, we completed a 100% ‘access control’ deployment of all the access ports to the network.  All this complex procedure was accomplished with absolutely no interruption to the station’s operation.”

Kobi More-Zedek, IT Manager at Channel – 10 says:

“After deep and elaborate visibility studies of several solutions options we decided to go with portnox™.  The deciding factor has been that portnox is an independent management tool which implements an understandable dialogue and connection between the communication systems, the hardware infrastructure and the user in a way and a manner never heard of before.