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When Denver-based Frontier Airlines started out in 1994, the company flew two aircraft and had fewer than 200 employees. Nearly 15 years later, Frontier (www.frontierairlines.com) runs 60 aircraft and employs about 6,000 people. Now the second-largest carrier in the Denver area, Frontier needed its IT to manage its needs.
About four years ago, Frontier’s IT department embarked on a complete network redesign to handle its increased traffic. At the time of this redesign, the company was using two different firewalls to protect its network, and consolidating to one effective firewall was a big part of the redesign, says Steve Greenberg, IT security manager at Frontier.
According to Greenberg, Frontier had grown in an entrepreneurial fashion. In the beginning, its IT department used “whatever was lying around or whatever was cheapest at the time,” he says. At the time, network and systems administration was wrapped up into one group, with the staff wearing many different hats. “Basically, we ended up with two different firewall solutions, and we wanted to move away from that,” he says.
“Our network was growing, and we needed a good, reliable, strong firewall proven in the industry,” says Greenberg. After evaluating several possibilities, Greenberg says Frontier went with Secure Computing’s Secure Firewall (www.securecomputing.com).
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