Intelligent CISO Issue 22 | Page 51

COVER STORY nd-user Workforce productivity is key to excelling in today’s modern world and enterprises are relentlessly searching for new ways to ensure they operate with the most efficient approach in order to reduce downtime and loss of productivity. Making sure the system is protected against cyberattacks is an essential focus and a critical requirement for RCS MediaGroup, to guarantee secure access for employees. Giandomenico Oldano, Director of IT Operations for RCS MediaGroup, tells us why the company decided to implement a Pulse Secure solution. | Issue 22 ld a no , Di recto r o f IT Operations for RC Gr dia e S M PULSE SECURE STRENGTHENS SECURE ACCESS AT ITALIAN PUBLISHING HOUSE P ulse Secure, a leading provider of software- defined Secure Access solutions, has announced the delivery of a successful project at one of Italy’s largest media organisations designed to help foster mobile workforce productivity while ensuring protected, compliant access to cloud and data centre applications. RCS MediaGroup employs over 3,000 staff including 700 journalists. RCS MediaGroup is one of the leading multimedia publishing groups, active mainly in Italy and Spain across all publishing fields, spanning from newspapers to magazines, from digital to books, from TV to new media and to training. It is also one of the top players in the advertising market and in the www.intelligentciso.com en ico O organisation of iconic events and major sporting formats, such as the Giro d’Italia. The RCS group publishes the daily newspapers: Corriere della Sera; La Gazzetta dello Sport; El Mundo, Marca; and Expansion, as well as numerous magazines – the most popular including Oggi, Amica, Io Donna, 7, YO Dona and Telva. Like many other popular enterprises, being an integral part of the region’s culture and communications has made RCS group a target for cyberthreat actors. “Protecting our systems against cyberattacks is a critical requirement, as is ensuring our staff and journalists have easy, flexible and secure access to their work,” said Monica Venanzetti, Network Manager for RCS MediaGroup 51