Really, does anyone think that a technology box secures anything? And this NBA stuff? Patterns, thresholds and alarms are so 'fire fighting old hat!' Perhaps it's helping keep the sanity at a Wild West University but practically speaking, I can't ever see this kind of investment being worthwhile in the commercial sector. Schools have the money to throw endless amounts of technology at problems. They really don't manage anything because it's too scattered and students and profs are too independent. Throwing technology at problems is the only answer.
I may be hasty in referring to the security fairy because any semblance of security in a univ. environment must be welcomed. But the idea that NBA is securing Wayne State must be taken with a huge question mark...What exactly is it that they are securing?
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Perhaps you are being a
Perhaps you are being a little mislead by the title of the story. It is actually an important combination of network behavior analysis as well as log collection and security event correlation that is protecting this University environment.
I do work for the vendor in question. More specific details of what information is being analyzed (flows, logs, security events) can be found in the complete case study which is up on our home page. www.q1labs.com, along with case studies from the commercial sector
Response to: NBA and the security fairy
Hello Schrathboy,
The NBA stuff provides tremendous insight into the network using NetFlow and sFlow. Basically it can find threats realtime across hundreds of routers and switches.
Contact us and we'll set you up with an evaluation copy of Scrutinizer with Flow Analytics. See for yourself.
http://www.plixer.com/products/scrutinizer_alarm.php
Sincerely,
Mike at plixer.com
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