1 The Universidad Regional Autónoma de los Andes (UNIANDES) is a leading higher education institute in Ecuador with seven campuses distributed across the country. The institution was founded in 1997 in the central city of Ambato and has successfully grown throughout the years to nearly 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and around 1,200 faculty and administrative staff. A recent evaluation ranked UNIANDES among the 10 best universities in the country. As part of its expansion strategy, the institution is about to receive the educational authorities’ approval to open new centers in Ecuador’s major cities of Quito, Guayaquil, and Cuenca. This rapid growth brought with it an imperative to implement appropriate technologies to protect the university’s network data. Five years

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