XXXLutz KG
The XXXLutz Group is an Austrian furniture store chain with headquarters in Wels. When the company was founded in 1945 in Haag am Hausruck, the range of hand-painted chipboard boxes and farmhouse furniture still reflected Austrian craftsmanship. In the following decades, the permanent expansion of the regional furniture business followed step by step and Lutz became XXXLutz. Today, the XXXLutz Group is represented with more than 280 furniture stores in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Romania, Croatia, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary, and with a turnover of 4.4 billion euros, it is one of the largest furniture retailers worldwide.
Customer since:
2016
Industry:
Consumer goods and trade
City:
Wels - Austria
Controlware secures XXXLutz network together with ISL
Requirements
Due to its numerous locations (with more than 4,500 switches and over 72,000 end devices), the furniture retailer XXXLutz had the desire for more overview and transparency in the network. Together with the experts from Controlware and ISL, a suitable NAC solution was to be found that would ensure access protection so that only authorized devices and users would have access to the network.
Services & Solutions
- Since the many different device types are often limited in terms of their authentication options, so that authentication according to 802.1X was ruled out, a basic protection with MAC-based authentication was to be implemented first.
- The ARP-GUARD was a perfect match for the requirements formulated in the specifications and was able to prove its performance in a proof of concept (PoC).
- The basic implementation was initially carried out in a test branch set up in the head office. All systems in the XXXLutz network were recorded within a very short time and the architecture was clearly displayed in a graphical topology. This makes future network planning much easier and sources of interference are quickly localized and eliminated.
- Due to the special flexibility of the ARP-GUARD solution, in the successfully completed roll-out phase only one sensor was stationed regionally at a time, to which several branches were then connected. The number of sensors was dramatically reduced from 271 to 11, and the technicians also increased the number of connected branches to 180 due to the convincing efficiency of the system.
Advantages & Benefits
- The system is both powerful and adaptable, and can be operated with manageable effort.
- The training provided by Controlware's experts establishes clear structures.
- The IT administration effort is reduced by automating routine tasks.
- The extensive possibilities of role-based administration allow easy integration of the various teams such as network, support/hotline and management.
- With just one piece of information, such as IP address, the system can locate devices and provide a comprehensive view of branch, site, switch, VLAN and port.
- Instead of manual setup on the individual switch ports, the assignment to the associated VLAN is done by the system (ARP-GUARD) at the push of a button.
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Solution partner:
ARP-GUARD von ISL GmbH
ISL is a leading German software manufacturer in the field of IT security with a focus on network access control (NAC). Since 1999, ISL has been helping its customers arm themselves against the ever-increasing and changing challenges to IT security and has made it its mission to protect know-how and resources through IT security made in Germany - secure, reliable and trustworthy! Many years of NAC competence and innovative strength characterize the team of ISL GmbH and allow the company to grow steadily. Customers appreciate the flexibility and creative ideas when it comes to implementing the topic of NAC simply and efficiently. Since February 2019, ISL is a business unit of DTS IT AG.
