November Five
How do you let developers work remotely in a secure and flexible way without relying on traditional VPNs? In this case, discover how November Five and Hi-T built a future-proof IT approach, with more peace of mind, better performance and less friction in the daily workflow.
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IT supports the work instead of slowing it down.
Team November Five
Digital agencies work fundamentally differently today than a few years ago. Teams are distributed, client environments change constantly and developers work on multiple devices from different locations. Secure remote work is no longer a luxury, it's a prerequisite. For November Five, this meant their existing IT approach increasingly started to chafe.
November Five works for a wide range of clients, from creative agencies to major international brands. Their developers switch daily between different development environments and test scenarios, often remotely and on multiple devices.
Access to client environments relied on physical infrastructure and traditional VPNs. That worked… until it didn't.
In practice, it led to:
For November Five, one thing was clear: We owe it to our clients to reduce security risks as much as possible.
VPNs were designed for a different way of working: a time when teams were mostly in the office, devices were predictable and access didn't need to be as dynamic. For a modern digital agency, traditional VPNs actually cause:
So the question wasn't just how to make it faster, but above all how developers could get secure access without daily delays. Together with Hi-T, November Five went back to the core question: how do you give developers secure access to client environments, regardless of location or device, without compromising on security or performance? The answer wasn't more rules or stricter restrictions, but a different way of thinking about access. Through Hi-T, they chose a cloud-based approach with Jamf Security Cloud, where security and ease of use come together.
Key principles:
The focus wasn't on tooling, but on how people actually work.
New security solutions often bring to mind long implementations, extra explanations and temporary disruption. At November Five, it went differently. Thanks to Hi-T's guidance, the implementation was controlled and smooth. Both managed Macs and unmanaged test devices were connected quickly and securely, without bringing the team to a halt.
Within a short time, November Five was already testing live in the new setup. No IT marathon. No weeks-long transition. Just an immediately noticeable difference.
The impact isn't in one big feature, but in the overall picture. Today, November Five's developers work:
Or, as the team puts it: "IT supports the work instead of slowing it down."
For Hi-T, this project wasn't about rolling out a product, but about understanding the organisation and how it works. By first getting a clear picture of where the friction was, we could set up a solution that feels logical in practice:
