Career Education Corporation
Protects Systems, Databases and Applications
from Internal and External Attacks with "Security
Layering"
“NitroGuard DBM's tight integration with
netForensics means we have centralized
monitoring from the perimeter to the
application layer. It is a very powerful tool
from a security perspective. This is the trend
for the future.”
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CASE STUDY
Career Education
Few organizations attract would-be hackers like schools, colleges, and universities. Overzealous youths—eager
to show off their newly acquired technology skills or change a failing grade to an “A”—like to see how far into a
system they can get. Fortunately, IT security has been a top priority at most educational institutions for many
years now, and IT managers routinely stay abreast of leading-edge security capabilities to thwart internal
mischief makers.
For Career Education Corporation, a publicly traded post-secondary education firm with 80 campuses across the
US, Canada, UK and UAE, IT security is a critical ingredient in its mix of online and classroom educational
services. More than one-third of its 95,000 students take classes online, approximately 3500 students, faculty and
staff are online at any one time, and more than 10,000 people have access to online information.
Michael A. Gabriel, director of corporate security, knows that layering security is the best way to protect an IT
environment. Sarbanes-Oxley regulations virtually mandate it, with its many requirements for security and
internal controls. One of the first steps Gabriel took two years ago when he was hired by Career Ed to focus on
SOX requirements was to add more security layers to their event log monitoring practices.
Layer One: netForensics nFX Open Security Platform (OSP)
Early on, Gabriel selected netForensics nFX OSP software to m