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About Max Schlatterer
Max Schlatterer: Successfully Implementing Ideas, Shaping the Future.
Endless belts are the core product around which everything revolves at Max Schlatterer GmbH & Co. KG: Under the "Esband" brand, the company manufactures and distributes drive belts, conveyor belts, specialty belts, format belts, and suction belts. The unique feature: A one-of-a-kind manufacturing method guarantees products with absolutely homogeneous material properties.
Max Schlatterer is a third-generation family business with unwavering traditional values: reliability, independence, and responsibility. Since its founding in 1948, the success of this Swabian company has been based on a strong spirit of innovation, customer focus, and a commitment to performance.
Schlatterer operates globally and, as a world market leader, defines quality standards for high-performance belts and tapes. The company's success is based on the craftsmanship of its approximately 700 employees. Their ingenuity, their independent and cost-conscious Retail , and their motivation are the reasons why the Schlatterer name has stood for the highest product quality for over 75 years.
Project requirements
- Implementation of a highly secure, up-to-date rule set with remote access security standards
- Compliance with current firewall requirements through user- and app-based policies
- Rapid response to security gaps and vulnerabilities
- Regular reporting of events on the firewall via security review
Project goals
- Modernisation of the remote access solution for home office requirements and integration into the security concept
- Rapid implementation of a centralized, up-to-date security concept with minimal downtime
- Redefinition of the rule set as well as active threat prevention and application detection
The challenge:
“The biggest challenge in the migration project was simultaneously improving security without excessively restricting users within a very short timeframe. On the one hand, we had to restrict existing internet access to increase security. On the other hand, we didn't want to alienate users by imposing too many restrictions. To resolve this tension, we involved users early in the process and explained the necessity of the security measures. We also tried to keep the restrictions to a minimum and offer users understandable alternatives.”
Sascha Einloft | Head of Information Technology at Max Schlatterer
The project
To enhance his IT security, Max Schlatterer opted for our “Managed Next Generation Firewall” service. This consists of the firewall product and the associated managed service, including the Security Operations Center from q.beyond.
The goal: a significant increase in security through next-generation features such as threat prevention and application identification. Application identification allows, for example, the differentiation between Outlook and MS Teams after its implementation. As a long-standing customer of Telekom and q.beyond, with close contact to q.beyond's Service Delivery Management, the decision to implement the project jointly was a natural one. Even before this project, the customer operated a large portion of their IT infrastructure in our data centers. Following joint planning with the customer, the individual migration steps were defined and executed, enabling the project to be completed in just five months.
Impressive results.
- Increased security through managed services and a firewall as a central node at the internet breakouts in the q.beyond data center
- Comprehensive redesign and consolidation of the firewall and proxy rule set
- All employees of Max Schlatterer are protected by the new firewall, both on-site and when working remotely
- Complete migration and productive deployment of the NextGen Firewall within a project duration of only five months
From idea to implementation: Our project highlights
"With Deutsche Telekom and q.beyond as experienced and well-established IT partners, we have fully exploited the Optimisation potential of our systems and ideally positioned our IT for the challenges of tomorrow - and all this with an excellent price-performance ratio."
Sascha Einloft, Head of Information Technology at Max Schlatterer
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Benjamin Braunmiller