"Our major goal in finding a new solution was to get an in-depth glance at our network from a security perspective. There are very few products available that provide easy access to this type of information. Those products that do exist require a steep and complicated learning curve, making it practically impossible to get the same information that QRadar provides."
Graydon Huffman
Senior Systems Security Specialist
Wayne State University
Managing a campus network environment is vastly different from managing an enterprise or corporate network. Like most institutions of higher learning, Wayne State must maintain the delicate balance between protection and the need for the open, free flow of information required to support advanced learning and research. The University’s network management team realized the combination of home-brewed products in conjunction with vendor solutions, such as Juniper Netscreen firewalls and SNORT for its packet monitoring, continued to present event correlation issues.
It was obvious there was an immediate need for a one-stop solution to monitor and detect all types of traffic running on its networks and identify problems requiring immediate remediation, rather than taking up valuable time tracking them down. Read More