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High-Flying Agency Assures Critical Aviation R&D with NETSCOUT
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Intrusion Detection
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Malware Protection
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
- Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software
Applicable Industries
- Aerospace
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
- Intrusion Detection Systems
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
- Testing & Certification
The Challenge
The agency's Information Technology (IT) team places paramount importance on maintaining the integrity and availability of the R&D environment supporting the activities of their researchers. The legacy technology located in the primary data center provides log management and packet forensics analysis, with IT also deploying a mix of packet brokers to pass traffic to their network and security tools. The agency wanted to transform this approach to encompass a proactive network, application, and cybersecurity monitoring framework that also leveraged their existing technology investments. The agency’s Cybersecurity team contacted a range of industry-leading service assurance and cyber threat/DDoS protection providers to identify a next-generation solution. The agency had tight budget limitations for this project and encouraged vendors to sharpen their pencils when submitting price proposals.
About The Customer
The customer is a government agency that specializes in advanced global flight solutions. The agency’s innovation activities are distributed across a dozen facilities, with their main research & development (R&D) center providing an operations base for more than 3,000 aviation experts. The agency is known for its high-flying activities and its success in the aviation industry. The agency's Information Technology (IT) team places paramount importance on maintaining the integrity and availability of the R&D environment supporting the activities of their researchers. The agency's funding is largely focused on R&D activities, and they have tight budget limitations for IT projects.
The Solution
The agency implemented a converged NETSCOUT® service assurance and cybersecurity solution at their primary data center that singularly leverages NETSCOUT’s Adaptive Service Intelligence™ (ASI) technology for smart data. The NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Service Assurance platform leverages COTS InfiniStreamNG (COTS ISNG) Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) software to provide the global visibility the agency needed to better support the effectiveness of network and application performance management. The agency addressed their virtual network visibility issues by deploying the vSTREAM virtual appliance, which complements the COTS ISNG. The agency also deployed the Arbor Threat Analytics high-performance internal network traffic security solution, which enables the Cybersecurity team to detect and confirm hidden threats quickly and accurately. The agency also automatically detects and blocks inbound threats (e.g., DDoS attacks, malware) and outbound malicious communications (e.g., bad URLs) by using the Arbor Edge Defense (AED) solution at their network perimeter (i.e., between router and firewall).
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