World 7th Largest Telecom Company: BSNL Banks on Cyberoam for Productive Security

Overview

BSNL has two ISP connections BSNL and AIRTEL, in its headquarters and it had Linux based proxy servers. While the Linux based proxy servers failed to do any sort of web content filtering, the load balancing and failover for both the ISP links, was also a tedious manual process. They were looking for a single box solution to all their problems, something that will act as a panacea. BSNL had an easy familiarity with Cisco as most of the hardware came from it. So their first choice was Cisco ASA. Rather, putting it the other way; Cisco did not meet their requirements. They decided to deploy appliance-based, indigenously designed Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution - Cyberoam.