United Living is a trusted partner for major property owners and residential communities across the UK that revitalises communities and ensures reliable utility and infrastructure operations. In a busy construction environment, fast and reliable connectivity is key to their success and with their existing SD-WAN solution going end of life, United Living needed a highly resilient, secure and standardised technology blueprint across that would securely connect remote sites and hybrid workers across the UK, as well as contractors and third parties.
In this webcast, hear directly from United Living on how Cisco and Focus Group designed and implemented a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture that:
- Delivered zero trust security, controls and policies for their heavily distributed workforce
- Eased ISO 27001 compliance requirements
- Accelerated their cloud adoption strategy
Meet Our Presenters:
Graham Mountain - Infrastructure Manager, United Living
Graham has been working in IT at United Living for over 20 years and has seen the company grow from 5 sites with IT provision to over 120 sites nationwide. Graham is now the IT Infrastructure lead, responsible for the network and SASE strategy, as well as all back-end computing, Azure and cloud for this fast paced and diverse construction company.
Leigh Sanders - Head of Enterprise Technical, Focus Group
Leigh is a founding member of Focus Group’s Enterprise team and Cisco specialist division. Having worked in networking for over 20 years, he is the now the Technical Lead for the Enterprise team at Focus Group – taking ownership of the portfolio of Cisco products and Enterprise consultancy services as Focus Group’s resident Cisco advocate.