In FY23, the Enterprise Technology & Services Network team partnered with Centripetal to expand intrusion detection by installing RuleGates on the passive network devices at Keene State College, Plymouth State University, and the University of New Hampshire. The RuleGate is a network protection system through which all campus internet traffic passes and have been in place on the active network for a few years; once this project is complete, Rulegates will also be on the passive side of the network, providing the same level of protection during upgrades and active side network failures, improving the resiliency of each campus’ internet connection.
Centripetal RuleGate servers are intrusion-detection-like systems and leverage over 100 sources that contain over 3,500 cyber threat intelligence feeds. They shield 99% of cyberattacks identified and mapped by the global threat intelligence community. The devices shield the University System of New Hampshire from billions of malicious communications attempts each month. For example, in May 2023, RuleGate blocked 36,274,893,865 attempts compared to 51,487,008 attempts on the previous USNH intrusion detection system.
ET&S seeks to implement these changes with negligible downtown and address security holes in its security coverage, specifically in the USNH redundant connections.
This is an improvement in the USNH security coverage, and the security layer prevents malicious traffic from reaching our campus and detects and prevents communications from local users to malicious entities in the wild. This deployment helps identify infected computers and aids in the prevention of exacerbation and spread and improves the safety and integrity of the entire USNH userbase.
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