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Keeping Attacks (That Get Through Defenses) from Spreading

Keeping Attacks (That Get Through Defenses) from Spreading

Research university United States Industry Higher education Size ~20,000 students 4,400 faculty and staff Solution • Akamai Guardicore Segmentation Protecting university and personal data — on-premises and in the cloud Even with multiple layers of defense, some attacks will sneak through to infect servers. Previously, this university IT team limited the spread of malware by painstakingly maintaining firewall rules to control which servers could communicate with one another. But the IP addresses of applications hosted in the cloud change constantly, making firewall rules almost impossible to keep up to date. Now the university controls the spread of threats more effectively and with less effort with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. What happens when a server attack evades defenses

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