GP Bullhound, a boutique investment banking firm with offices across 8 countries, must comply with multiple, far-reaching regulations, including GDPR and FINRA. The firm needed a solution to provide visibility and an audit trail for their 24/7 operations.

Challenge: Alerting Is a Time Saver

GP Bullhound values the visibility into external sharing and unusual behaviour. Egnyte is always on, monitoring across their geographies, and alerting them when an employee does something out of their normal profile so that they can investigate further. The team appreciates not having to log into the solution every day to determine what needs follow up, knowing that Egnyte will alert them to high severity issues, like unusually large downloads or deletions, or external sharing involving sensitive data.

Solution: Permissions Reporting Has Simplified Compliance

The GP Bullhound team didn’t expect to use the permissions browser as extensively as they do. They use it quarterly to audit permissions throughout the company to ensure compliance with FINRA, among other regulations. The easy-to-use browser allows them to keep on top of permissions housekeeping and keep their access control in good order.

Egnyte provides GP Bullhound with better control over their data, enables them to maintain compliance with GDPR and other regulations, and delivers peace of mind.

Challenge

As Joeris grew, increasing numbers of both offices and employees exposed the difficulty of maintaining operations with a single file server. For users in the field, limited site bandwidth combined with the hassles of VPN slowed the collaborative process for everyone. Users in all locations had a hard time finding the latest file versions and relied heavily on email attachments for document sharing. IT was struggling to maintain visibility and control.

Solution

After trying content collaboration solutions like Box and Dropbox, Joeris discovered it was essential that they find a platform with the option for hybrid deployment to enable teams to access, edit and share files on any device, from anywhere in real time. Egnyte’s hybrid solution ensures files are available for teams when WiFi is spotty or non-existent. Egnyte also allows IT to more easily manage file and folder permissions (or delegate to project managers) and control access to sensitive data, while simplifying user access to Microsoft 365 applications on the go.

Results

• Elimination of costly file servers and cumbersome VPN 
• 100% access to job files, regardless of connectivity
• Ability to easily control folder and file permissions of users everywhere
• Integration with Microsoft 365