Schools: Take Control of Your Network

Firelytics gives you an unprecedented level of insight into you’re your network’s traffic profile across all ports and protocols passing through your UTM Firewall. Prevent wannabe hackers, script kiddies, and P2P zealots from crippling your network with real time, up to the minute security intelligence about your school network.

Kids will be Kids

Let’s face it. Kids will be kids. Set up a restriction and they want to find a way around it. It’s the challenge. We’ve all been there. But those ye oldey goldey days are long gone. As the school network administrator you no longer have the luxury of allowing kids willy nilly access across your network. The restricted systems and applications notwithstanding, there’s too much at risk. Security exploits, vulnerabilities, zero day attacks, viruses, worms, trojans, and every manner of internet creepy crawlie out there is trying to find their way into your network. And of course, the geeks in your school population will be more hep to the latest exploit they can leverage to take a crack at setting up a tunnel for their P2P swarm…

That’s too much temptation to resist especially when it can be so easy. Pretty soon your network would have slowed to a crawl, legitimate users would be screaming blue murder, and you’ll be pouring through the firewall’s syslog data trying to figure out what happened. And that’s a best case scenario.

Take the Pain out of Your Firewall Syslog Analysis

The best configured UTM firewall is still just a gatekeeper who is following rules. P2P traffic encapsulated in encrypted http passing through port 80 will still look like legitimate traffic. It is only when you dig into the traffic profile you will notice that there is an unnatural spike in bandwidth usage. Firelytics will show this to you instantaneously. In real time. That’s right, no waiting for a cron job to churn out the report, no post mortem sifting through the network data trying to piece together to the latest whodunit. As the traffic flows through your endpoints watch what’s happening on your dashboard. Historical analysis of course is always there but for trigger sharp responsiveness you need to get actionable insights into real time traffic data.

Actionable Insights – The Key to Superior Security Monitoring

In any analytics tool data is a given. Devices these days generate overwhelming amounts of data which quadruples the effort needed to slice, dice, analyze, interpret and ultimately take action. Often times all you have to go with are gut feel and wizard like intuition. Firelytics makes sense of all that syslog data spewing out and breaks it down into easily and quickly digestible security intelligence. You longer no need to spend hours in data normalization and Excel gymnastics to understand what’s really ticking under the hood. With your network under threat you do not have this luxury. Often times in desperation network administrators end up shutting down the internet pipe.

Firelytics will pinpoint with precision the specific attack or vulnerability vector that’s causing the problem or give you an indication of traffic abnormality or alert you when any of your security ‘trip-wires’ get activated.

Reduce Downtime and Recovery Time

In every instance, Firelytics helps you stay ahead of the curve. By getting timely intelligence about the nature of the security compromise you are now equipped with the all the critical and relevant information needed to take a judgment call on your next steps. Even if you do need to shut down your network you can quickly identify the problem nodes, isolate them and restart your network.

Get User Details with LDAP Integration

With LDAP integration Firelytics can identify the login credentials that is the origin or destination of the problem within your network. Habitual offenders will no longer be able to rest smug in the knowledge that their actions will get obfuscated as “just the IP address will get logged”. Firelytics will show you user level data that can help you profile the offender’s online habits on your network to help you in your decision making.