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FINANCE FIRM NQM FUNDING EASILY SCALES SECURE NETWORK ACCESS ACROSS THE US AS
BUSINESS GROWS




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> “With Perimeter 81, I no longer have any internet-facing ports open on our
> corporate firewalls. Our attack footprint doesn’t exist anymore”

Brent A. Sudeck
CISSP Network Architect




THE COMPANY: 

NQM Funding is a full-service correspondent lender, focused on providing
customers with competitive products, programs, and pricing. As a leading
mortgage lender for over 25 years, NQM Funding (formerly NP Inc.) started out in
their Southern Florida headquarters and are now licensed in 46 states across the
US, with branches and brokers nationwide. 


NQM FUNDING’S RAPID EXPANSION DEMANDED A SECURE AND AGILE SECURE NETWORK ACCESS
SOLUTION

Over the past four years, NQM Funding, which started as a regional company in
South Florida, experienced exponential growth and skyrocketed from 20 employees
to 500. Brent A. Sudeck, CISSP Network Architect and longtime IT advisor at NQM
Funding, says the quickly growing workforce needed a “a secure, fast, and
reliable way to connect to our corporate network.”


THE OLD NETWORK SOLUTIONS WEREN’T KEEPING UP WITH BUSINESS GROWTH

The traditional VPN and remote desktop (RDP) solutions they were using had been
good enough while the company was small and regional, but as NQM Funding grew
and expanded into more and more states, network scalability became a major
issue. 

The traditional VPN setup proved to be too slow as new branches were opening
across the US, Brent said. “When making a connection outside of the state,
having to come back down through south Florida really wasn’t very workable,” he
said, adding that their RDP solution was incompatible with the company’s main
SaaS solution. 


ADDRESSING THE ALARMING RISE IN RANSOMWARE 

The threat of ransomware was also a major concern, and the organization needed
to ensure that the rapidly growing workforce was connecting securely from
company laptops: “If one of those laptops were infected with ransomware, and it
makes a VPN connection back to our network, it could potentially infect the rest
of the network.” 

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Industry:
Diversified Financial Services
Employees:
500-1,000
Location
USA
Workforce:
100% Hybrid
Network:
100% Cloud
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EASY-TO-USE

Easy to deploy and manage


SCALABLE

Quickly add more users and locations 


SECURE

Protect users and the network from propagation of ransomware




Protecting data for a remote workforce   

Another issue Brent was facing was data protection: “A lot of people weren’t
making any type of connection to our network at all, which became a problem in
and of itself. The users’ data was then getting stranded on their laptops. If
those laptops were to get lost or stolen or broken – that data is gone. However,
if they were to connect to our network, the data could synchronize with our
servers, we’d be able to back it up and protect it.” 


EASILY SCALABLE NETWORK SECURITY ACCESS

After finding traditional network access solutions were affecting productivity
and leaving NQM open to risk, Brent began researching solutions that could
provide quick and secure network access to hundreds of remote employees working
across the US.    

While initially looking for an upgraded VPN, Brent quickly found that wouldn’t
allow for scaling the network and ensuring a fast connection: “it still had the
same issue: you had to backhaul all your traffic from Seattle to Florida, and
that’s a long way, and that’s going to be highly latent.”


ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS (ZTNA) PROMISED PEACE OF MIND

That’s when Brent began looking for a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution:
“The ability to give users access only to what they needed, to have Device
Posture Check (DPC) to make sure our anti virus solution was running and up to
date on the users’ laptops before they made a connection, gave us the peace of
mind to say: ok, that device won’t be spreading ransomware to the rest of our
company.”

Another deciding factor for Brent was being able to achieve visibility and
control over the network. As hundreds of new employees joined the organization,
governance became a critical aspect of ensuring secure network access. 

As Brent researched and tested the leading Zero Trust solutions in the market,
he found we  delivered the cloud-based solution he needed to quickly and easily
scale secure network access across the US, and enable continued growth. 

Since the company has a small IT team, Brent was the one tasked with configuring
and deploying the solution, making it imperative that the chosen solution was
easy to implement. Brent says one of the main reasons he chose Perimeter 81 was
the intuitive interface and ease of use: “I was able to play with it, I saw how
easy it was to deploy a network and gateways and make my VPN connections – it
was all very simple.” 

Brent was also very happy with the support Perimeter 81 provided throughout the
sales and deployment processes: “The people I dealt with were all excellent.
Everybody bent over backwards to answer my questions. From day one, the support
was there, and it was fantastic.”

Favorite Features


DEVICE POSTURE CHECK


MONITORING DASHBOARD


FIREWALL AS A SERVICE





SECURE NETWORK ACCESS IS NOW A BUSINESS ENABLER

Thanks to Perimeter 81’s easy-to-use interface, Brent was able to quickly roll
out the solution to all employees. “Now we’re fully deployed, and I couldn’t be
happier with the way things are going. It’s working exactly the way we wanted it
to work.”


ACHIEVING BUSINESS GOALS WITH PERIMETER 81

Brent says that deploying Perimeter 81 provides the company with the scalability
they needed, allowing them to open new offices and rollout quickly and
effortlessly, without having to add additional IT personnel or spend time on
lengthy on-boarding and training. 

“Scaling was such an important thing. The company was able to much more easily
merge and purchase branch offices in other states. By having Perimeter 81 in
place we could quickly deploy to those branch offices, and have them up and
running and on boarded into our system and sharing data with us, within days.”


QUICK CONNECTIONS PROMISE PRODUCTIVITY

Perimeter 81 NQM Funding’s remote workforce now has the quick connectivity and
security that are critical to their business: “Productivity is of paramount
importance in our company. When you’re closing a mortgage on a home there are
deadlines that you don’t get to move simply because you are having technical
difficulties. There are a lot of moving parts and a lot of teams that have to be
involved, and if one person – your loan officer – can’t connect, or can’t work,
or is working too slow, there’s no excuse. They have to be able to do their
job.” 


 CONSISTENT USER EXPERIENCE – FROM ANYWHERE

Brent is also happy that no matter where users are connecting from, Perimeter 81
allows them to see “the same drives mapped, they have access to the same data
without having to take another step of connecting to a remote desktop, or
connecting through a VPN.” 

Whether they are in the corporate headquarters or in Seattle, when users connect
via their laptops, they share the same intuitive user experience.




MINIMIZING THE ATTACK SURFACE WITH A CONVERGED SECURITY SOLUTION 

Perimeter 81’s all-in-one ZTNA, device posture check (DPC), and
Firewall-as-a-Service capabilities provide Brent and the organization with all
of the defenses they need when it comes to secure network access. 

Brent says DPC “is an absolute must – having the peace of mind that when a
laptop connects, it’s not going to infect our network – that was huge for us.”

FWaaS enables a secure connection from any device: “We’ve been able to configure
firewall settings so that when connecting with a non-corporate laptop, they can
connect – but they aren’t connecting to any of the file servers or backend
server network, so if their laptop is infected, it’s not going to affect us.”

Brent adds “With Perimeter 81, I no longer have any internet-facing ports open
on our corporate firewalls. So that makes our attack surface nill. That was a
huge change. Any remote access is going to come over Perimeter 81. Our attack
footprint doesn’t exist anymore. Once users make their connection – we implement
the least privilege principle, so we’re able to give people exactly what they
should be able to access and nothing more.”




ABOUT PERIMETER 81 

Perimeter 81 is a robust, yet easy-to-use, converged networking and network
security platform which connects all users, in the office or remote, to all
resources, located on-prem, or clouds. It is a cloud-native service that
includes advanced capabilities such as Zero Trust remote access, Internet access
control, malware protection and firewall as a service. It enables any business
to build a secure corporate network over a private global backbone, without
hardware and within minutes. The entire service is managed from a unified
console and is backed by an award-winning global support team that has you
covered 24/7.


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