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| Protect IT infrastructure from threats
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Educational institutions’ IT infrastructures are becoming increasingly complex, with the continued introduction of standalone applications and increasing use of wireless services. The challenges of protecting the infrastructure from security threats, providing student, faculty and administrative services and meeting regulatory requirements can be daunting. IBM can help you ensure security and privacy across the network.
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| Leverage our expertise and education experience
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As a long-time leader in education for more than 80 years, IBM has developed best practices and acquired intellectual assets that you can leverage. We offer:
- Pre-configured security applications from IBM and Business Partners to help simplify implementation and help reduce costs.
- Access to over 2,000 consultants and more than 38,000 infrastructure services professionals worldwide.
- A proven approach to the challenge of implementing on demand computing environments, utilizing advanced, dynamic, virtualization and autonomic capabilities.
- The ability to develop custom code, user procedures, measurements, reports, training and administrative aids for higher education and K-12 schools.
- A variety of attractive financing options, as well as extensive experience with the E-rate funding program for K-12 districts (in the U.S.).
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| Mitigate your exposure to security risk
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IBM can help you assess, detect, protect, correct and recover from security exposures in your IT and physical security environment.
Security and privacy services
- Security Health Check includes a review of your organization's IT security controls across policy, organization, personnel, physical controls, asset classification and control, system access control, network and computer management, business continuity, application development and maintenance, and compliance.
- Application Security Assessment provides a detailed final report describing the strengths and weaknesses found, conclusions and recommended actions for application production readiness.
- Network Security Assessment includes a review of the security design (routers, remote access servers, bridges, etc.) to determine security exposures.
- Wireless security services can help you identify threats and vulnerabilities by assessing your wireless architectures, implementation plans and infrastructure.
Managed security services
- Intrusion detection centrally monitors network security, allowing detection and response to unwanted intrusions while they are happening.
- Vulnerability scanning proactively tests for vulnerabilities and measures against education best practice security architectures.
- E-mail security management proactively helps prevent viruses and spam as well as helping you control unwanted content in e-mail using signature and heuristic scanning, image analysis and black- and whitelists.
IBM Tivoli® Identity Manager software provides identity lifecycle management (user self-service, enrollment and provisioning), identity control (access and privacy control, single sign-on and auditing), and identity foundation (directory and workflow) to effectively manage internal users and external users through the Internet.
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| Keeping an English university secure
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A London-based university turned to IBM for a highly-available and reliable information technology (IT) infrastructure to support their academic activities. The university's previous infrastructure had been formed through the merger of a number of smaller environments from various institutions across campus. This disparate structure was not well integrated and was difficult to manage. In addition, this client wanted to implement a wireless network to support its objectives. The university was looking to implement a secure, robust, integrated IT environment to enable online teaching and learning—both on campus and from remote locations.
By working with IBM, the university now has an integrated, security-rich, manageable IT infrastructure to support all academic activities as well as future technology innovations. Faculty and staff benefit from highly-available systems and an integrated messaging system, which supports communication and collaboration.
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| Effective system utilization to lower IT costs
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IBM can help you assess and prioritize security vulnerabilities starting with those that could be most costly and damaging to your institution. We can help you:
- Decrease downtime caused by viruses, worms, hackers and human error.
- Simplify implementation with pre-configured, automated or IBM-managed security applications.
- Increase system stability with standardization and integration across the institution.
- Avoid penalties for non-compliance by implementing measures to protect regulated information at both the server and client level.
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Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM Education specialist.
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