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Municipal governments and city councils around the world face dramatically declining budgets and spending cuts. While the cost of IT security and maintenance can be high, the cost of compromised systems is even higher. With over 60,000 new malware threats appearing daily, relying on just anti-virus is no longer sufficient to protect any network.

Layered Security by Faronics takes a multi-layered approach to your institution's IT security, allowing you maximum protection from threats and the quickest recovery from intrusions.

 

 

Enter Layered Security

Normal anti-virus software works by blocking software that is known to be harmful. The trouble is today the sheer number of threats makes it difficult for even the best anti-virus software to keep up. Instead of just blocking the known bad-guys, Layered Security prevents any program from running that isn't authorized.

 

 

That's why Faronics pairs our lightweight but extremely powerful Anti-Virus with Anti-Executable, a whitelisting application. A whitelist is a list of applications that are authorized to launch on a computer. If a program isn't on the list, it will not run. IT staff get to decide what applications are necessary on any given machine, and then block all others. This has the added benefit of not only blocking malicious software, but also unauthorized and unlicensed software from running - increasing system performance, increasing student focus and reducing IT headaches.

 

 

 

Finally, the ultimate layer of security: full system restoration. Frequently, whether error caused by a security lapse, or user error, system recovery can only be achieved by a complete restoration of a computer's original settings However, this is a time consuming process, which may put a machine out of commission for hours to days depending on the IT team's bandwidth.

 

That's where Faronics patented Deep Freeze reboot to restore technology comes in. Deep Freeze restores a computer to a set configuration on every reboot. Any changes or problems that result from malicious software, misconfiguration or just plain old user error are undone when the computer is restarted. This significantly reduces the burden on IT teams to fix minor issues, and keeps computers running as efficiently as the first day they were turned on, extending workstation lifetime significantly.

 

 

 

One Solution: Multiple Implementation Options

Different departments have different IT needs and requirements. City planning or legal departments may require far more flexibility from their systems than a clerk's office.

 

Faronics understands this, which is why our Layered Security solutions are designed for different environments.

 

Layered Security in flexible environments:

Some users need both security protection and the flexibility to change their system's configuration, retain specific settings, etc...

 

The Faronics Layered Security Bundle combines our Anti-Virus software with Anti-Executable. The powerful duo can be deployed across all your machines and then centrally managed from the Faronics Core.

 

 

Layered Security in static environments:

It's frequently necessary IT departments to lock down machines strictly, preventing students or less-experienced users from making unauthorized changes which require IT time to repair.

 

The Faronics Absolute Layered Security Bundle adds Deep Freeze to Anti-Virus and Anti-Executable for rock-solid protection of your workstation configurations. If any security threats manage to get past the first two layers of security, they run into the brick wall of Deep Freeze that restores the computers IT-specified configuration on every restart. This also removes users changes - intentional or not, giving IT complete control over how the machines they administer. User files are redirected to a protection part of the drive where they are retained.

 

 

 

“The average desktop costs a company $4650 per year to own and operate”

Though the costs of hardware and software are decreasing, support costs and energy prices are increasing world-wide. These expenses can quickly start to get out of control and unmanageable for tight public-sector budgets. Faronics helps cut costs in both support and energy use while still retaining the maximum capacity in the system.

 

“The average help desk cost per contact is estimated to be $23.09″

Support calls are cost time and money, both in the time of your IT person to fix the issue and the opportunity cost of having them not working on something else. These frequently frivolous incidents consume a great deal of IT resources – resources that could be put towards expanding and extending functionality, rather than just fixing systems.

 

 

 

Faronics Deep Freeze

With Faronics Deep Freeze, the majority of support calls can be mitigated with a simple restart. Deep Freeze "freezes" your system's configuration and then it restores it to this point on every restart. That means that IT personal need only restart (or tell the user) to restart their computer and boom! Problem solved.

 

Faronics Deep Freeze can reduce support tickets up to 63%, letting IT teams focus on other projects or responsibilities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over a year, a typical desktop PC can consume up to $100 in energy costs and 870-kilowatt hours of electricity!

 

Faronics Power Save

The power costs of running computers can add up quickly, Power management tools help reduce this cost – but it can be difficult to exactly track by how much.

 

 

Faronics Power Save is a power management designed to reduce each computers energy consumption, while at the same time monitoring and tracking how much power is saved. This is presented in easy to read reports that give administrators the ability to clearly reference how much they’re saving.

 

Going green is no longer just about “looking good”. It makes real economic costs to invest in sustainable solutions. Power Save can reduce each computer’s energy consumption by up to $50 a year! Add to this some of the energy rebates offered in some regions for investing in this technology and you can be receiving return on investment even quicker!

 

 

Advanced Training Solutions

As more government processes and operations move onto computer-based, paperless platforms the training required of employees to quickly and effectively learn these programs are an institutional imperative.

 

Faronics Insight is a cutting edge tool for instructors to turn a computer lab into a collaborative learning environment. Faronics Insight allows instructors to not only take control over any and all of their trainees computers, but also to interact with each computer to create a more effective training environment.

 

Complete System Control

The modern Windows workstation is an incredibly flexible machine, allowing users to engage in many different activities and functions. However, with this flexibility comes risk. Less experienced users shouldn't be able to access certain settings, and for machines used for only very specific functions, allowing access to the wider system is both distracting and unnecessary.

 

WINSelect takes complete control over the Windows user environment allowing you to lock down a computer's functions at an extremely granular level. In an organization where security of data is essential, WINSelect helps lock down data-sharing capability by preventing the use of USB data sticks and devices. WINSelect allows IT staff to retain complete control of what functions computers can and can’t do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IT Asset Management

 

With so many different hardware configurations, software configurations and licenses all around your network, for IT, simply knowing what they're working with can be a very arduous task - a time consuming and laborious process full of Excel spreadsheets and going computer to computer.

 

Not any more! Faronics system profiler allows you to instantly know the set up for every single computer in your network. Whether it's hardware specs to plan upgrades, or monitoring licenses to ensure compliance, System Profiler arms IT with the knowledge they need to do their work quickly and effectively.