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And they’re duty-bound to ensure the privacy and security of such sensitive material.
But it’s not always easy in digital environments with multiple end-users and multiple points of access.
That’s why we’ve created Legalty.
Legalty gives lawyers, attorneys, partners, paralegals, and their support staff the tools they need to work securely – and efficiently – everywhere, every day.
How?
By combining the law firm’s existing legal software and Microsoft 365 in a managed, cloud-based environment that supports data encryption and device control. With built-in security. With built-in redundancy protocols. With comprehensive technical support. With a transparent pricing plan. Without bulky hardware. And without costly local servers.
Legalty can be deployed for legal practitioners using LegalSuite, Lexis Convey, and most other third-party legal software applications.
Our all-in-one solution helps law firms to:
Legalty includes Office 365, with perennially popular Microsoft applications (like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) that are up to date and accessible anywhere, at any time, using a computer, tablet, smartphone, or other device connected to the Internet.
Legalty comes with top-notch communication tools that enable group email, team chat, and collaborative online meetings, as well as calendaring and scheduling facilities to simplify diary planning and management.
Legalty also features Advanced Threat Protection, a comprehensive security solution designed to protect organisations from increasingly sophisticated phishing and ransomware attacks.
Want to know how Legalty can help your law firm to achieve more? Explore the Legalty website.
Keen to see Legalty in action? Request a demo with our team.
Ever heard of Cloudflare? It’s a web performance and security company on a mission to speed up and protect websites, ecommerce stores, SaaS products, mobile applications, APIs, and other properties connected to the Internet.
It’s also our newest ally.
Security and speed are critical for successful business operations in today’s digital economy, and our managing director, Ryan Roseveare, believes Cloudflare’s commitments in both areas mirror BUI’s own. “We investigated several vendors, as well as traditional technology providers, in this space. We chose to team up with Cloudflare because it’s a market leader with a cost-effective solution that complements our deep cloud security model.”
Cloudflare’s security services are designed to mitigate DDoS attacks, prevent data breaches, and block malicious web traffic. “We’re going to be able to offer our clients reliable and redundant solutions with security in mind for their cloud, hybrid, and on-premises requirements,” says Roseveare.
Cloudflare serves data from more than 150 international data centres, including three on South African soil. The company opened its Johannesburg data centre in 2014 and facilities in Cape Town and Durban followed in May 2017 and March 2018, respectively.
Roseveare is confident that Cloudflare’s SA footprint will translate into tangible performance benefits for BUI’s local clients. “We’ve completed several proof of concept demos and deployments already,” he says.
Cloudflare’s technology is easy to integrate and simple to scale. Watch the video below to learn about its real-world applications…
“We’re excited to collaborate with Cloudflare to provide our own clients with services that further secure their environments,” concludes Roseveare. “We’re looking forward to designing and deploying tailored Cloudflare solutions for our clients.”
As an Enterprise Partner, BUI is an authorised reseller of Cloudflare’s cutting-edge suite of services.
MORE ABOUT CLOUDFLARE
Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.
Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added.
Cloudflare has been recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, and named the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company for two years running by the Wall Street Journal.
Visit the Cloudflare website for more information, or follow Cloudflare on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter for news and updates.
In the September 2018 edition of the BUI Bulletin, we briefly discussed our latest Azure migration project. Here, we highlight key stages in that journey to help you understand how we solved a complicated business problem with cloud technology.
Our customer, a financial services company, was hosting its entire online environment with front-facing websites at a large local hosting provider in South Africa.
BUI was brought in to help the business migrate all its services to Azure. The move had to be done seamlessly, with zero downtime. It also had to happen in the background, without affecting normal operations.
Solving the customer’s problem involved end-to-end service delivery from BUI.
We harnessed the strength and expertise of our networking team and our Azure cloud architects to successfully migrate the customer’s digital environment into Azure – with zero downtime.
In technical terms, we moved the customer’s entire online environment by using Network Address Translation (NAT) to re-map the IPs across ExpressRoute. We secured the solution in Azure behind next-generation firewall virtual appliances and took care of the high availability concerns with Azure Load Balancers. The security happens when the previous provider NATs it over ExpressRoute into Azure, where it hits the Load Balancers. Now, we are passing through the traffic and keeping the source address throughout the whole transaction until it lands in the back-end database behind the firewall and two Load Balancers. The entire process runs without any downtime for our customer, or any of its own clients.
Azure services are now being used instead of Virtual Machines, all Load Balanced and Highly Available.
The following technologies were among those used or implemented to achieve a successful migration and an improved overall security infrastructure:
Our customer has been running services in Azure for more than 30 days, and already there is a substantial cost saving.
Improved performance has also been noted: batch processes that took 15 minutes to complete with the previous provider now take under 60 seconds.
Enhanced security has been a particular game-changer for our customer… There were audible gasps when the results were first viewed via Azure Security Center and Azure Network Watcher. “All of a sudden, we can see all the malicious attacks that are hitting our web front ends! A real eye-opener,” said a key staff member.
The next step is to replicate the same environment to another region in Azure as a Disaster Recovery Site.
This customer’s appetite for Azure services has grown enormously – because the business benefits are clear.
Looking for ways to make your business more efficient and more agile?
Book your assessment with BUI’s Azure experts.
We’ll make cloud migration simpler and more manageable for you.
