Oplon Secure Access, IT security at the service of large fast ships

Recent events involving highly critical health and public services structures of the institutions have highlighted the importance of the issue of safe access. An increasingly emerging need all over the world where the security of IT systems still uses tools that are no longer in step with the times: it is necessary to adopt new technologies that must replace the current ones, which have now become obsolete and unsafe. For this reason Oplon networks, an IT engineering company founded in 2010, is constantly engaged in research and development to improve the proposed solutions and enhance the safety of customers and critical infrastructures. Aware of this, the company Gnv (Grandi Navi Veloci) has entrusted itself to Oplon having the need, quoting the words of Bruno Ceradelli, ciso & privacy manager of Gnv, of “a flexible and scalable security solution to the various needs” to guarantee the provision of their services. Grandi Navi Veloci is a ferry and ferry company that is part of the MSC group. It currently owns 25 ships, serves 31 lines in 7 countries and 19 ports; hence, it connects 19 ports across the Mediterranean and the Adriatic. For Gnv, Oplon networks quickly implemented an architectural solution based on Oplon Secure Access components: a series of Enterprise products that have become the fulcrum of the delivery of critical services for Gnv’s information systems, securing access to applications and protecting business and passenger data. The configuration flexibility of Oplon secure access (Osa) has allowed the rapidity of production without interruption of the business. WATCH THE VIDEO

“We had the need, and the urgency, to find products that would improve our services in an integrated way. Oplon networks has supported us with enterprise-level products and with a highly trained, proactive technical department able to understand the needs and criticalities of the business “, explains Ceradelli, and adds:” The products used have allowed us to structure the services and immediately improve the security of the B2C environment, and then completely redesign the internet facing infrastructure, adapting it to today’s internet publishing needs, both in terms of security and balancing “. Oplon networks thanks to its competence center is able to perfectly understand and decline the customer’s needs so much so that, in the case of Gnv, we started with the solution of a specific need – modernizing the IT security system – and then continued with a broader plan for updating the company’s infrastructure. “We started with the bare essentials to solve a specific initial problem, but after having touched the flexibility and completeness of the solution we have extended the scope” quoting Bruno Ceradelli, who concludes by saying: “We often look to overseas companies when we are looking for enterprise solutions, so finding great skills and competitiveness at a national level was a pleasant discovery and knowing that everything is designed, developed and built entirely in Italy is a great pride for Made in Italy “.