Colby-Sawyer College Turns to NitroSecurity for Advanced Network Protection
Posted on: Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 09:00 CDT
NitroSecurity, a provider of next-generation intrusion prevention solutions for enterprise networks, today announced that Colby-Sawyer College has deployed the Company's NS-IPS line of products as a cornerstone of its overall network security strategy to protect against new viruses, emerging threats and network misuse. By combining signature and advanced behavioral anomaly-based detection, NitroSecurity's IPS significantly fortifies the New London, New Hampshire-based college's open, available and distributed network, which supports close to 1,500 student, staff and faculty PCs.
Colby-Sawyer College must proactively ensure the safety of its network as colleges and universities have recently become favorite targets for hackers. Because of high bandwidth Internet connections and a large number of hosts not under the immediate control of college network administrators, hackers are readily turning student computers into Denial of Service (DoS) hosts. Furthermore, technology-savvy students are internally accessing the network for malicious purposes. Combined with more frequent and dynamic cyber attacks and increasingly new variants of malware, the ability to rapidly correlate and analyze data in real-time with NitroSecurity's NS IPS is essential to effectively mitigate these security risks and network fraud.
"While anti-virus protection, anti-spyware software, and firewalls provide essential protection, they can't realistically catch everything," said Scott Brown, Information Security Analyst, Colby-Sawyer. "NitroSecurity's IPS collects data from all over our network and identifies the source and type of threats quickly and efficiently. When utilized at its highest degree, the IPS provides a higher degree of protection than desktop anti-virus software by stopping practically all threats before they hit the network."
NitroSecurity's IPS provides a complete network overview, profiling the behavior of disparate systems, applications and users. The IPS learns normal network traffic patterns, recognizes anomalies immediately and has the ability to manage a large number of alerts across multiple IPSs and existing devices. NitroSecurity's real-time correlation and analysis alerts network administrators at the start of an attack, quickly identifying which area of the network is at risk and isolating the threat immediately at the source.
"Colby-Sawyer College is the latest among a growing number of colleges and universities that are turning to NitroSecurity for our ability to advance security through network intelligence," said Terry Christensen, CEO of NitroSecurity. "NitroSecurity's innovative and effective approach to optimizing network security ensures that colleges and universities can readily defend themselves against internal or external threats both now and in the future."
About NitroSecurity
NitroSecurity, headquartered in Portsmouth, NH, develops a highly scalable line of Active Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), leveraging its patented Security Aggregation and Correlation Engine, to protect the internal network infrastructure in enterprises of various size and scope. Utilizing both signature and anomaly-based detection, NitroSecurity's products provide protection, analysis and security management for enterprises looking to secure their networks with real-time active threat mitigation without business disruption. NitroSecurity is the first in the industry to offer a protection system that integrates intrusion prevention and a high-speed security aggregation and correlation engine. NitroSecurity's engineering team originates from the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where they developed real-time security solution and ultra high-speed embedded database products. NitroSecurity is headquartered in Portsmouth, NH. More information is available at: www.nitrosecurity.com
About Colby-Sawyer College
Colby-Sawyer, founded in 1837, is a comprehensive liberal arts college located in the scenic Lake Sunapee Region of central New Hampshire. Students from 25 states and seven foreign countries learn in small classes through a select array of programs that integrate the liberal arts and sciences with pre-professional experience. More information is available at: www.colby-sawyer.edu
Source: Business Wire
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