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State Agency Manages Expanding IT Environment With NETSCOUT

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	System Integration Testing & Certification
Challenge	The centralized State government information technology (IT) organization faced everyday challenges of managing their large-scale, complex government service delivery environment. Now, IT leadership faced additional cybersecurity and network demands, including those described in the subsections that follow. They had to support Federal Cybersecurity Program Requirements and sustain hybrid workforce operations and user experience. They also had to enhance security operations intelligence into new data center operations. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a centralized State government information technology (IT) organization with vast responsibilities associated with delivering business services to more than 30,000 agency employees. The agency has taken advantage of NETSCOUT’s “single-vendor/multi-solution” approach, with nGeniusONE Service Assurance and Arbor Sightline & Threat Mitigation System technologies helping IT operations address Smart Visibility/Smarter Analytics and Cybersecurity requirements across their environment. Read More
Solution	The agency’s collaborative cross-IT efforts focused on using NETSCOUT smart data sources and analytics to address their highprofile challenges. They met Federal Cybersecurity Program Requirements by deploying an nGenius 5000 Series PFS appliance supporting 40GB network speeds at the agency’s network connection edge in front of their Palo Alto firewall environment. They sustained hybrid workforce security and user experience by adding redundancy to further safeguard business operations by deploying PFS 7000 appliance technology, as well as a PFS software add-on for their already-installed PFS 5000 appliance. They enhanced security operations intelligence into data center performance by deploying PFS 5000 technology to provide network traffic aggregation for cybersecurity and service assurance monitoring at its new data center. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

System Integration

Testing & Certification

Challenge

The centralized State government information technology (IT) organization faced everyday challenges of managing their large-scale, complex government service delivery environment. Now, IT leadership faced additional cybersecurity and network demands, including those described in the subsections that follow. They had to support Federal Cybersecurity Program Requirements and sustain hybrid workforce operations and user experience. They also had to enhance security operations intelligence into new data center operations.

About Customer

The customer is a centralized State government information technology (IT) organization with vast responsibilities associated with delivering business services to more than 30,000 agency employees. The agency has taken advantage of NETSCOUT’s “single-vendor/multi-solution” approach, with nGeniusONE Service Assurance and Arbor Sightline & Threat Mitigation System technologies helping IT operations address Smart Visibility/Smarter Analytics and Cybersecurity requirements across their environment.

Solution

The agency’s collaborative cross-IT efforts focused on using NETSCOUT smart data sources and analytics to address their highprofile challenges. They met Federal Cybersecurity Program Requirements by deploying an nGenius 5000 Series PFS appliance supporting 40GB network speeds at the agency’s network connection edge in front of their Palo Alto firewall environment. They sustained hybrid workforce security and user experience by adding redundancy to further safeguard business operations by deploying PFS 7000 appliance technology, as well as a PFS software add-on for their already-installed PFS 5000 appliance. They enhanced security operations intelligence into data center performance by deploying PFS 5000 technology to provide network traffic aggregation for cybersecurity and service assurance monitoring at its new data center.

Impact #1	Addressed cybersecurity requirements with NETSCOUT® smart visibility
Impact #2	Assured state agency business operations across evolving hybrid workforce landscape
Impact #3	Enhanced operational security and simplified their data center security management

Impact #1

Addressed cybersecurity requirements with NETSCOUT® smart visibility

Impact #2

Assured state agency business operations across evolving hybrid workforce landscape

Impact #3

Enhanced operational security and simplified their data center security management

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State Agency Manages Expanding IT Environment With NETSCOUT

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