Higher Education is on the front line:
Colleges and universities are uniquely challenged in protecting their networks, as the majority of users are a transient and constantly changing student population. These students are technology aware and push for innovative access to the education institutions network via personal computers and PDAs. Moreover, some students take pride in their "hacking" expertise, often resulting in rogue servers, inappropriate applications and unauthorized access to network assets.
The QRadar Security Intelligence Platform offers security monitoring and compliance validation, enhanced by intelligent real-time analysis of behavior, providing educational institutions with profiles of the behavior of systems, applications and users over their organization's entire network.
That is why educational institutions like Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, McGill, Purdue, University of Oklahoma, Wayne State University and many others trust QRadar from Q1 Labs to help protect their open networks, their student and faculty's data and their reputation.
Detect threats that others miss:
Today's hackers are sophisticated, smart and continuously evolving cyber-criminals. Universities offer valuable personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, contact information, financial records, social security numbers, and even electronic medical records (EMRs) for university hospitals. Even more challenging is that students are often the least knowledgeable about identity theft and fraud.
QRadar was designed from the ground up to deliver the level of scale and visibility that enables educational institutions to better protect their unique networks. As the most intelligent, integrated and automated SIEM solution available, QRadar solves many of the challenges that campus security and operations teams face.
Security intelligence delivers customer value:
Universities use QRadar to validate or refute RIAA and MPAA piracy claims against students; using firewall logs to associate public NAT addresses with internal addresses at the time of the violations; then use flow data to validate which RIAA claims are legitimate.
One Big 10 university uses QRadar to enable more efficient and effective security operations; real-time visibility and alerting across the campus to identify and rapidly correct problems and to provide logging services for all university departments.
QRadar protected a university network against numerous virus outbreaks that occurred prior to signatures being available from a major anti-virus vendor. This intelligence about the outbreaks provided the university the ability to develop network policies for preventing further threat propagation.
Designed to meet current and emerging compliance requirements with automated, real- time reporting:
With QRadar, educational organizations can meet or exceed current compliance and reporting requirements, and as of July 1, 2010, colleges and universities must comply with the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS).
QRadar brings to educational institutions the transparency, accountability and measurability critical to the success of meeting regulatory mandates. QRadar's unique correlation and integration of all surveillance feeds yields more accurate data for an operator (Transparency), more granular forensics for an incident response manager (Accountability), and more complete reporting for auditors (Measurability). Additionally, QRadar ships with thousands of report and rules templates, including specific requirements for:
Making the switch to QRadar's Next-Generation solution:
Whether it's because you are replacing a legacy solution or a first generation SIEM or log management solution that is too complex or expensive to scale or support, you'll be in good company with QRadar, including organizations like:
