Macnica provides Menlo Security's cloud-based Secure Web Gateway to Sumitomo Heavy Industries - First innovation in 30 years reduces work load and creates a safe security infrastructure by making the web harmless -

Macnica (headquarters: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture; Representative Director and President: Kazumasa Hara; hereinafter Macnica), a total Services & Solutions provider in semiconductors, networks, cybersecurity, and AI/IoT, announced today that it has provided Menlo Security's cloud-based Secure Web Gateway to the security infrastructure of Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Shimomura Shinji; hereinafter Sumitomo Heavy Industries).

■ Background
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., which has manufacturing bases around the world and employs approximately 24,000 people, needed to revamp its security infrastructure in order to tighten compliance and cyber risk measures led by its headquarters in Japan. We have improved our security infrastructure, which was built about 30 years ago, when commercial use of the Internet began, in line with the changing times.

● Concentration of communication via VPN during telecommuting reduces work efficiency due to poor response
● Since it is on-premises, it is necessary to add a server each time to handle a huge amount of communication, and the operational load is high, making it difficult to expand globally.
● Threats hidden in websites have become more sophisticated, and conventional deny-list-type filtering measures are inadequate

Reasons for choosing Menlo Security's cloud-based Secure Web Gateway
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, as a result of verifying multiple proxy server products for the first security infrastructure renovation in 30 years, found that usability, website reproducibility, and good response were the decisive factors, and Menlo Security's cloud-based Secure Web We decided to introduce Gateway.
Menlo Security's cloud-based Secure Web Gateway, in addition to the functions of a conventional Secure Web Gateway such as URL filtering, has an auto-scaling function (automatic optimization of communication load) according to the number of users and traffic volume, and web isolation technology. It has the advantage of being able to isolate and sanitize websites of all categories.

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■ Effects after introduction
Sumitomo Heavy Industries is currently deploying Menlo Security's cloud-based Secure Web Gateway to approximately 15,000 users in Japan and the Asian region, and has realized the following effects.

● The auto-scaling function automatically optimizes the communication load, improving the response speed.
● Because it is cloud-based, it is highly scalable as an infrastructure that can be used globally.
● With the web isolation function, all categories of websites can be browsed while threats are rendered harmless, enabling safe web access without any operational burden.

Macnica provided careful support based on the knowledge it has cultivated as Japan's only primary sales agent for Menlo Security, and achieved a smooth product introduction at Sumitomo Heavy Industries. We will continue to leverage our detailed customer-oriented support capabilities to help Japanese companies and local governments strengthen their security.

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Macnica Menlo Security product manager
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