College of Charleston Selects NitroSecurity Enterprise Solutions to Protect Campus Network from Potential Threats.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- NitroSecurity Inc., a provider of high-performance network security monitoring, analysis and protection solutions, today announced that the College of Charleston is currently utilizing NitroSecurity's NitroGuard Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and NitroView Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) solutions to secure its campus network. The College of Charleston cited effectiveness, speed and the reporting capability of the solutions as definitive reasons why NitroSecurity stood out from the competition.

The College implemented NitroGuard IPS to detect, analyze, and protect its network from an array of security attacks, and NitroView ESM to provide security event and log management capabilities, including detailed reporting and analysis of and correlation between network anomalies, network flows, and security events. Initially, the College of Charleston was solely interested in the NitroGuard IPS offering; however, upon seeing the outstanding performance and scalability capabilities of NitroView ESM's real-time inspection and querying engine, the College deployed both security measures to protect its network from potential threats.

Upon installation of the NitroView ESM and NitroGuard IPS appliances, the institution experienced immediate results and witnessed a dramatic improvement in the overall posture of its network security. The solutions provide for real-time and forensic security event monitoring, network behavior analysis, and integrated intrusion detection and prevention that enable the College to take a proactive stance in securing its network perimeter.

"The protection of personal data is of utmost importance today, especially in higher education with most college networks housing personal student and faculty information," said Joseph Clark, Senior Network Engineer, College of Charleston. "With so many users logging on to the network from computer labs, classrooms, faculty offices and dorm rooms, the potential for attacks increases. When we saw NitroGuard IPS and NitroView ESM in action, we were blown away by the real-time inspection and querying engine, as well as the speed and reporting capabilities that NitroSecurity provides. Immediately the solutions allowed us increased visibility into the operation and security of the network, and offered us more protection overall."

NitroView ESM delivers real-time analysis, correlation & reporting for both streaming live and forensic network + security data for 3 critical functions of SIEM market: Log Management, Security Event Management and Network Behavior Analysis. NitroGuard IPS, a high-performance network intrusion detection & prevention appliance, is fully integrated with NitroView ESM to deliver a powerful and cost-effective combination of intrusion detection/prevention as well as network flow detection and analysis, which increases overall system performance while reducing network latency and overall acquisition and deployment costs.

About NitroSecurity

NitroSecurity, Inc. headquartered in Portsmouth, NH is a provider of high performance, integrated network and security monitoring, analysis, and protection solutions. NitroSecurity leverages its patented security event aggregation and correlation engine to protect the network infrastructure in enterprises of all sizes - providing deeper security visibility for superior network protection. NitroSecurity's customer base includes more than 100 global organizations across many vertical markets, including healthcare, education, financial services, government, retail/hospitality, and managed services. For more information, please visit www.nitrosecurity.com.