Case Study
EMEA-based Internet and Communications Provider Secures Schools’ Networks Using Infoblox
The Challenge The provider wanted to make sure that network connections and the user experience were not only stable, but also secure, especially because the users were schoolchildren. In addition, it wanted to make sure these children did not go to inappropriate sites or inadvertently download malware. For such an extensive project, implementing secure web gateways (SWGs) alone for content filtering was a high risk. No one had done such a large implementation of SWGs before. (The estimated download traffic is over 1Tbps, which requires around 200 appliances from main SWG vendors.) In the event that something went wrong, the Internet provider wanted a way to augment SWGs. However, the provider did not want to rely on SaaS-based security solutions. Instead it needed its security i