NSU Contact: Barbra Gonzalez, 954-262-5354
NitroSecurity Contact: Frank Hayes, 603-570-3909
June 9 , 2006
NSU Increases Network Availability and Protects Critical Systems with NitroSecurity’s Intrusion Prevention and Security Management Systems
NitroSecurity’s Deep Flow Analysis and IPS Solution Help Secure Academic Network
Portsmouth, NH – NitroSecurity, a leading provider of highly scalable enterprise security solutions, today announced that Nova Southeastern University (NSU), the largest independent, not-for-profit institution of higher education in the southeastern United States, has selected NitroSecurity’s NitroView enterprise security manager and NitroGuard intrusion prevention systems (IPS) to help protect its academic network.
NSU has long maintained a goal of providing the most open and secure academic network possible to foster a continuous and collaborative exchange of ideas and information throughout its campuses and student education centers. Today’s increasing security and bandwidth risks, such as the Blaster and Sasser viruses, along with peer-to-peer networking and other malicious activities, can have crippling effects on a network and core systems for institutions like NSU.
“NSU is taking the step of deploying next-generation intrusion prevention and behavior analysis systems to ensure a high level of network availability is maintained for students, faculty and guests who rely on our infrastructure,” said Jimmy Norton, manager of network operations at NSU. “We chose NitroSecurity’s NitroView and NitroGuard IPS because of the powerful flow monitoring and connection tracking features – which other solutions do not offer – that allow us to proactively track flow activity down to the user IP address.”
NitroSecurity provides the industry’s most robust and scalable enterprise security solutions that provide intrusion prevention, network flow and anomaly analysis and security event management that proactively and rapidly aggregate, correlate, and automatically respond to threats in real-time for cost-effective, 360 degree protection – from the network perimeter to the individual desktop LAN connection. NitroSecurity’s enterprise-class security solutions meet both the security and regulatory compliance requirements of small, medium and large enterprise customers.
“We are extremely pleased to be working with an academic leader like NSU,” said Frank Hayes, vice president of marketing for NitroSecurity. “The university is truly at the forefront of utilizing technology to protect its network against internal and external attacks, ensure the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of information – and in doing so, enhance the academic environment for its users.”
About NSU
Nova Southeastern University, with its main campus in Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida, and student educational centers in Tampa, Orlando, Miami, West Palm Beach, and Jacksonville, Florida, and Las Vegas, Nevada, is the largest independent, not-for-profit institution of higher education in the Southeast, and the 7th largest nationally. It awards bachelor’s, master’s, educational specialist, doctoral, and first-professional degrees in a wide range of fields, including business, psychology, counseling, computer and information sciences, education, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, optometry, nursing, law, marine sciences, and other social sciences. For more information: www.nova.edu.
About NitroSecurity
NitroSecurity, headquartered in Portsmouth, NH, is a leading provider of enterprise security solutions that provide intrusion prevention, network behavior (flow and anomaly) analysis and security event management enabling enterprises to secure their networks with real-time threat mitigation without business disruption. The company leverages its patented security event aggregation and correlation engine to protect the internal network infrastructure in enterprises of all sizes - providing deeper security visibility for superior network protection. For more information, please visit www.nitrosecurity.com.
