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Dutch university gets top marks for cybersecurity
技术
- 网络安全和隐私 - 端点安全
- 网络安全和隐私 - 网络安全
- 网络安全和隐私 - 安全合规
适用行业
- 教育
适用功能
- 商业运营
- 设施管理
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
挑战
Keeping a security solution updated across an organization should be the easy part. It’s fending off constantly evolving cyberthreats that often is the bigger challenge. For HAN, protection against advanced attacks, security administration, and performance were issues when it used McAfee security solutions. Not only did McAfee miss infections, but also during updates, HAN’s thousands of workstations and servers were frequently disabled or the updates missed certain systems altogether, causing them to lack the required level of protection. As McAfee was downloading and applying updates and performing antimalware scanning, workstation and server performance became sluggish and often resulted in hours of downtime for staff, faculty and students. To alleviate these issues, HAN initially evaluated Bitdefender and Trend Micro and decided on Bitdefender GravityZone to protect both its physical and virtual environments. Recently, the company evaluated and tested Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Bitdefender GravityZone Elite. Again, Bitdefender came out on top.
关于客户
Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN) is one of the five largest universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. With campuses in Arnhem and Nijmegen, HAN offers high-quality, practice-based education to more than 30,000 students. The university employs 3,600 staff members, including 90 IT staff. HAN is dedicated to providing a secure and efficient IT environment for its students and staff, which is crucial for maintaining the high standards of education and research. The university's IT infrastructure supports a wide range of applications and services, including Autodesk, SolidWorks 3D CAD, and Microsoft Office 365, which are essential for the academic and administrative functions of the institution.
解决方案
Today, HAN depends on GravityZone Elite to protect the infrastructure that includes 1,900 physical Windows laptops, as well as a VMware-based deployment encompassing 1,350 non-persistent virtual desktops and Windows and Linux virtual servers. HAN also plans to extend Bitdefender protection to applications running in a Microsoft Azure cloud that is under development. Nearly 450 applications run in the environment, such as SolidWorks, Autodesk, and Office 365. With Bitdefender at the helm, HAN detects and thwarts 100 percent of threats attempting to enter the environment—compared to ninety percent previously. Vorsterman van Oijen especially appreciates that GravityZone Elite incorporates multiple levels of advanced, next-generation technologies. These layers include Sandbox Analyzer, an endpoint-integrated sandbox to examine suspicious files, detonate payloads, and report malicious intent to administrators; HyperDetect tunable machine learning; and advanced behavioral analysis and anti-exploit techniques. System performance for workstations and virtual desktops also has dramatically improved since GravityZone was deployed. In fact, IT used to receive approximately ten trouble requests from end-users regarding security-caused performance issues on average per month. Today, such requests have been eliminated. Managing security has been streamlined with GravityZone as it allows HAN administrators to handle all security-related tasks for virtual and physical machines from a single console. Plus, GravityZone’s native management integration with VMware vCenter Server automates provisioning of security tools, assignment of appropriate security policies at scale, and security-license recovery from decommissioned virtual desktops. Adding new workstations or servers, as well as distributing updates take minutes today compared to hours with the previous solution. As further evidence of GravityZone’s ease of administration, the average time HAN IT spends managing security has decreased to two hours a week instead of many hours before.
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