ArcSight Solutions for Higher Education

Security breaches are a growing concern for educational institutions. In the past year alone, a number of leading institutions have fallen victim to data breaches that exposed the personal information of students, employees and alumni - including Social Security numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and class schedules - to identify thieves and other criminals.

ArcSight solutions help educational institutions to stop malicious attacks and security breaches dead in their tracks. Schools such as the University of Tennessee utilize ArcSight solution to automatically gain visibility into insider threats, fully protect their perimeters against malicious attack and manage compliance requirements.

Leading educational institutions are leveraging ArcSight industry leading technology to:

• Automatically correlate security logs, vulnerability assessment data and asset characteristics
• Respond to attacks before they cause service outages, loss of privacy or compromised processes
• Automatically create reports that demonstrate the state of security and security operations for the entire institution
• Reverse the spiraling costs associated with building, validating and maintaining sufficient cyber security protection
• Prove security operations "due diligence" for compliance with government regulations

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University of Tennessee Logger Case Study: ArcSight Logger allows University of Tennessee to meet compliance requirements by providing a highly reliable platform for collecting, retaining, and retrieving log data

University of Tennessee ESM Case Study: University of Tennessee Leverags ArcSight ESM to quickly spot emerging worms and worm variants before signature detection is available