SECURITY THAT THINKS. ® 1 American University jettisons signatures and open-source tools for network detection and response University prepares for a bigger presence in the cloud American University doesn’t have a big cloud presence — but it will soon. That said, the private Washington D.C. university needed to step-up its cybersecurity efforts to protect the university’s public cloud, data center and campus networks. The university wanted to overcome two cybersecurity challenges, both of which involved a sizable chunk of time and resources: The use of open-source tools to monitor network traffic and the use of signatures to detect intrusions. “Open-source monitoring tools are a lot of work to maintain and leverage,” says Eric Weakland, director of information security at American

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