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Niagara Falls Bridges Commission Uses Lancope’s StealthWatch Network Behavior Analysis to Enhance Security and Streamline Network Management

With a 10Gb international network with more than 500 nodes across seven locations, the NFBC found that network management was taking up more time and becoming more complex. As the network grew, behavioral anomalies also became harder to detect. After reviewing several solutions, the NFBC selected StealthWatch to provide immediate notification of security issues, helpful troubleshooting data and detailed insight into network, host and user problems. The NFBC uses StealthWatch as a monitoring and troubleshooting solution that detects and identifies problems with the network as well as the hosts and users on it. It also allows the NFBC to keep a sharp eye on transient hosts, outside users/contractors dialing into the network and inside contractors plugging in laptops or other devices—all of which can introduce IT security risks.

NFBC’s deployment includes the StealthWatch Xe for sFlow®, which aggregates information from all its Foundry switches, and the StealthWatch IDentity-1000 appliance, which directly links individual users with specific network events. For centralized management, the StealthWatch Management Console correlates security and network intelligence from StealthWatch components deployed at critical segments throughout the NFBC.

“StealthWatch has been invaluable in tracking user activity and assisting with bandwidth profiling and network management,” said David Woods, manager of IT for the NFBC. “We know our network is more secure now. StealthWatch’s central management and ease of use helped accomplish this in less time with less people—saving us money in the long run.”

Woods added, “StealthWatch took no more than four hours to unpack, rack and connect to our network.   We have been impressed with its Active Directory integration and were able to utilize StealthWatch effectively without having to invest a great deal of time and expertise up front.”

Prior to StealthWatch, the NFBC would approach problems by looking at information from many different sources, including switch/router interface logs, network monitoring packages, log-in logs and other systems. The NFBC had to manually review and correlate all of the data in order to identify the problem, and some repeat issues could not be identified until reproduced. Now with a central repository of traffic flows from StealthWatch, the NFBC can pinpoint the source of a problem quickly, saving time and money.

 “As a critical infrastructure provider, the NFBC needs reliable network security and the ability to identify and resolve potential issues fast,” said Harland LaVigne, president and CEO of Lancope. “The StealthWatch System provides greater network visibility and security for the NFBC, without introducing management headaches. Now the NFBC can take a more proactive stance against IT security risks without burdening existing staff.”

About Lancope

Lancope®, Inc. is the provider of the StealthWatch™ System, the most widely used network behavior analysis (NBA) and response solution that unifies behavior-based anomaly detection and network optimization capabilities to protect critical information assets and ensure network performance by preventing costly downtime, repair and loss of reputation. StealthWatch streamlines security and network operations into one process, reduces time and resources, and eliminates the costs and complexity associated with non-integrated point products. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria-certified, StealthWatch received the 2007 Global Excellence Award in NBA and was named Best of Show at Interop2006. Defending the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities, StealthWatch protects hundreds of enterprise customers worldwide, more than all direct competitors combined. A contributing member of the Trusted Computing Group, Lancope also partners with fellow best-of-breed solution providers through its Technology Alliance Program, which includes Cisco Systems, Foundry Networks, IBM Tivoli, Check Point, TippingPoint, ArcSight and A10 Networks. Lancope is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, call 888-419-1462 or visit www.lancope.com.

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