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Minter Ellison Rudd Watts Boosts Security and Performance for Its Hybrid Workforce

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MinterEllisonRuddWatts (MERW) is a leading full-service law firm operating out of Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand. The firm provides clients with access to internationally recognized and experienced legal and business advisers across a wide range of practice areas and industry sectors. MERW is part of the MinterEllison Legal Group, which is one of the largest full-service legal groups in the Asia-Pacific region.

Having moved most of its IT to the cloud, law firm MinterEllisonRuddWatts (MERW) was experiencing issues with its residual on-premises hardware, which included web filtering, internet security, and VPN systems.

Remote connectivity was complicated and unreliable, as users had to connect to on-premises firewalls before routing to the cloud. “We allow our people to work from home, so we needed to vastly improve the performance of remote access,” says Nigel Stevenson, Chief Information Officer at MERW.

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