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 Responsisible 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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The University of Westminster Deploys StealthWatch
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The University of Westminster uses StealthWatch for internal network monitoring as an enhancement to its existing perimeter security. The University of Westminster supports over 22,000 students and 1,500 faculty and staff across multiple locations with a network infrastructure that includes Foundry Networks and ProCurve Network by HP core and edge devices along with ProCurve and Proxim Wireless appliances.

“Network visibility is paramount for us and StealthWatch has greatly increased our network insight, especially with regard to internal traffic,” said Lee Rose, Network Manager for the University of Westminster. “The sheer amount of information StealthWatch provides is quite amazing and we are able to view our network in ways we never thought possible. The solution is helping us to proactively maintain a healthy, reliable network.” Learn more