NetFlow Solutions for Higher Education

Universities and research institutions have unusual network security requirements compared to most commercial businesses. These organizations have massive network environments encompassing a wide range of hardware and software platforms. Huge storage arrays house data that moves through very high-speed connections.

This fast, open transfer of information underpins the collaboration necessary for scientific exploration to flourish. And yet, these same institutions often work with secret data, proprietary trade secrets or governmental information that must remain classified. The presence of large numbers of computer-savvy, file-sharing, students and staff only adds to the risk.

Leveraging NetFlow and sFlow from the network infrastructure to deliver real time visibility across physical and virtual networks, StealthWatch® eliminates network blind spots and reduces total network and security management costs.

How does StealthWatch help?

• Demonstrates compliance with Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) — which helps protect institutions from multimillion dollar lawsuits, while protecting the privacy and academic freedom of the students. Discover how StealthWatch Identifies Illegal File Sharing Activity and Responsible Users.
• Compares actual network behavior to expected traffic patterns to quickly identify unexpected demands on the network, as well as automatically mitigate internal attacks and misuse that traditional security solutions miss.
• Provides real-time visibility into current operations in order to understand how individual users affect network resources, and how those changing usage patterns impact both short and long term resource planning.

• Quickly discovers and resolves unexpected demands on network resources, as well as threats and security policy violations that other solutions miss
• Centrally manages configuration, reporting and response across large, high performance networks — alleviating the cost of securing many individual devices and networks
• Protects hosts and networks without installing software agents on individual hosts
• Visualizes network health in real-time via 3D graphical representations of current and expected performance
• Integrates network security operations into broader network management initiatives

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Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam (GLR) College Deploys StealthWatch
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Challenges: To increase visibility and traffic inspection, respect student privacy and keep costs down. The university was hampered by existing firewall technology and embedded IDS/IPS that could only inspect a portion of network traffic and did not provide visibility into GLR's high-speed internal and virtual network.

Solution: The StealthWatch System

Benefits: StealthWatch delivered visibility into GLR's Internet gateway traffic without requiring hardware upgrades, visibility across GLR's high speed internal and virtual network, faster time to resolution, automated mitigation and minimal administrative burden.

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