UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
“ We ' ve been able to centralise endpoint control and management from all of the distributed IT groups ”
AARON BAILLIO CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER , UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
bring your own device ( BYOD ) environment . And so we support a lot of different devices , operating systems and software platforms . So because of that , we needed something that was resilient and could operate a lot of different platforms . And so CrowdStrike has partnered with us as an agent that fit with most of our environment . Even on the Linux side and for those one-off devices .”
From the protection and prevention of malware to endpoint detection response , CrowdStrike covered a wide spectrum of security issues that the university might experience with an endpoint - which numbers around 14,000 and if covering the management of all devices , can even reach the 25,000 range .
“ We ' re looking forward to growing with them and we ' ve got a great deal of use and a lot of training . They ' ve been really great to work with as far as protecting our assets and providing incident response .”
With Proofpoint , the university experienced a very similar kind of growth . The implementation of an email gateway drastically reduced the number of malicious emails that came in , but phished accounts before Proofpoint arrived became a weekly occurrence . Around big campaigns at the start and end of term , Baillio saw an exponential growth of compromised accounts , which became a time drain for his incident response teams .
“ That pretty much dried up right away with Proofpoint . And as we ' ve grown with them , we ' ve been able to do more automation , allowing the tool to automatically pull emails from email boxes that are suspicious
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