Brandon Peterson, CISO, and Ryan Coots, Senior Network Engineer, explain how Check Point R80 and SandBlast Network protect the research institution's sensitive data. For more information visit https://www.checkpoint.com/customer-stories/desert-research-institute/
Contracted to study environmental impact by the military and meteorologists, the Desert Research Institute successfully thwarts today's advanced attacks and easily manages ever-changing parameters with Check Point R80 and SandBlast Network.
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The Desert Research Institute is the soft-money funded research arm of the Nevada system of Higher Education.
We perform environmental research on every continent on the planet. For the kind of research we do, security is paramount.
We have contracts with DOE, DOD, and the information we protect is very sensitive. What keeps me up at night is the threats you don’t know. Is an attacker already on your network? Have they thought of something you haven’t thought of?
The one thing we like about using the SandBlast network is that it provides us these universal and automatic protections that stop several threats every day before we even know that they’re there.
As a research institution, we do have a constantly changing environment, where we are required to make multiple changes a day.
It’s very easy and efficient to do that with R80.10 and the SmartEvents Manager. I’ll make anywhere from 5-50 rule changes a day.
Check Point’s always had a very good user interface and it’s been very simple and straightforward to manage firewall rules, but the ability to actually take all of these other products, so intrusion protection, antivirus, antibot, the sandboxing with the SandBlast Network, and integrate these technologies into their single management tool has really been very helpful to the Desert Research Institute.
We have a small, lean staff, and it allows us to actually keep managing security at a very, very high level, with that same staff.
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