Forecourts - Cloud Group

CASE STUDY FORECOURT & SECURITY

Fuelling every brand on the forecourt with secure connectivity.

Guest Wi-Fi, conference events and back-of-house systems on one network—safely isolated from each other.

The challenge

Forecourts run fuel pumps, convenience tills and back-office systems alongside public Wi-Fi, often on a single local connection shared with multiple co-located tenants and brands.

Any outage or bandwidth spike can knock card machines offline, halting fuel and convenience sales, while an unmanaged guest network risks exposing operational systems to the same footprint customers connect to — a growing concern as forecourt retail becomes a target for payment-focused cyberattacks.

The solution

Cloud Group works closely with its extensive partner network of IT professionals and resellers to deploy iShield — a next-generation Smart Access Unified Threat Management Device — across forecourt and convenience retail sites nationwide.

The results

Failover connectivity keeps pumps and tills trading through outages, with back-office systems fully hidden from public Wi-Fi and every site managed from one dashboard.

Absolute security across co-located brands

Micro-segmentation guarantees complete data isolation between the petrol station and its co-located fast-food partners, preventing lateral threat migration.

Zero payment gateway latency

Dedicated traffic shaping ensures credit card terminals and digital POS systems process transactions instantly, eliminating long till queues even during peak travel periods.

Uninterrupted 24-hour trading

Automated link failover protects the forecourt from localised internet outages, keeping fuel pumps, convenience stores and partner retailers online around the clock.

Enhanced customer satisfaction

Controlled guest Wi-Fi networks provide travellers with stable, secure connectivity without allowing individual users to drain property-wide bandwidth.

Streamlined compliance and auditing

Built-in identity logging and structured automated reports provide the documentation required to easily satisfy POPIA and PCI-DSS data safety audits.

Reduced operational overhead

Replacing a patchwork of unmanaged switches and basic routers with a unified solution lets IT partners troubleshoot remotely, minimising costly on-site visits.

“Keeping every pump, till and back-office system online—no matter what happens to the primary connection—used to be our biggest headache. iShield solved it.”

— Cloud Group IT Partner & Forecourt Infrastructure Specialist

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