Amity Business School deployed Fortinet security solutions to combat gateway-level attacks
Situation
Various Amity campuses were connected by a heterogeneous network of redundant Internet connections. Its data centre in Noida hosts more than 15 servers that provide critical services, such as an online admission system with tracking, and an intranet portal for staff, students, and faculty members.
Challenge
The challenge for Amity's 50-strong IT team was how to maintain open access to information resources both inside and outside the campus grounds, while still assuring sufficient security, so that confidential data does not leak out, nor hackers get in.Amity has faced network intrusions and gateway-level attacks earlier for several years.
A review of the security infrastructure decided that the best approach to deal with these network threats as a gateway-level security solutions. Amity evaluated solutions from several security vendors before eventually deciding on Fortinet.
They were looking for all-in-one solution with scalability, performance, bandwidth management and optimization. They also needed conventional security features such as firewall, antivirus and intrusion. Hence Amity chose Fortinet.
J.S. Sodhi, senior manager (IT) at Amity Business School said, "We deployed the FortiGate-200A at the headquarters, where our management sits. There is zero tolerance for downtime there and Fortinet has helped keep it that way."
Deployment
Amity deployed a FortiGate-500A at its Noida campus and a FortiGate-200A at its headquarters in New Delhi. Different products were deployed because of the number of concurrent network users.
The FortiGate unit gave Amity the capability to support dual redundant ISP connections. Amity has a 4Mbps pipe from Reliance and a 1Mbps connection to Primus, both connected to the same gateway device. Amity also deployed FortiReporter, a browser-based analysis, reporting, and monitoring solutions for FortiGate antivirus firewalls.
This utility generates nearly 300 pages of report on bandwidth utilization on the Amity network, attack attempts and virus incidents.
Special personnel are assigned the responsibility of reviewing those reports and developing recommendations or responses to situations that may arise.
Benefits
* No downtime anymore
* Drop in intrusion and virus outbreaks
* Significant improvement in performance
* Close monitoring of network possible
