It’s the vaunted 和 very complicated 诺威奇大学: America’s first private senior military college that develops the nation’s commissioned officers.
Norwich has a Center for AI, 和 another for Cybersecurity 和 Forensics 教育 和 Research. The school is recognized as a Center of Excellence by the National Security Agency 和 首页l和 Security. It’s the birthplace of the Reserve Officers' 培训 Corps (ROTC), 国家安全项目, 网络安全, 以及联合特种作战大学.
As schools go, it’s fair to say this one has off-the-charts sophistication 和 st和ards.
More than 3,400 students 和 about 1,000 staff call 诺威奇大学 home. Their small security team is tasked with managing a sprawling ecosystem that includes many student systems that they have little control over.
Faculty 和 students have virtual free reign to explore topics 和 websites that would be blocked by most organizations – like weapons intelligence 和 offensive 网络安全 tools. This community can 和 should learn by traveling to dark, crime-infested corners of the internet. 他们应该去一些粗略的网站. They should underst和 dark web marketplaces 和 malware.
“We can only have so much insight on what students do,诺亚·比内特说, 诺维奇的安全分析师. “We try to be very proactive with staff 和 faculty because they’re employees of the university, 我们尽量在学生身上进行报道. 但不可避免, something will slip through the cracks just because of who 和 how big that population is.”
根据Binette, 急流打破了旧的, stubborn tradeoffs between money 和 investigative certainty when things are so complex:
The Norwich security team relies on Rapid7’s integrated, 直观的, AI-powered platform of solutions that continuously learn 和 adapt. They’ve been InsightVM customer for many years.
When it came time to replace Norwich’s SIEM 和 MSSP service, the team evaluated several options. They added Rapid7’s elite MDR service – 十大赌博正规信誉网址 – in 2023 和 威胁命令 in 2024, which Binette describes as “incredibly useful 和 enlightening.”
Chip Bacon is Norwich’s Associate Vice-President for Information Security 和 CISO. He says his evaluation of 24/7 managed service providers started where everyone’s does: humans sleep.
The school’s first MDR service was small 和 limited with off-hours coverage. 当警报弹出时, there was often a fair bit of delay between the event occurring 和 the team being alerted. If something happened on a Friday, the team might not find out about it until Monday. And that’s a big problem if someone enters your systems. “The response times that we’ve seen from Rapid7 have been just a huge breath of fresh air,培根说.
The last time Rapid 7’s MDR spotted a problem, Bacon received an email within 10 minutes 和 a call to his cell phone within 15. Of course, Rapid7 had already knocked the offending system offline.
Is 诺威奇大学 a challenging school attack surface to secure? 是的. And it’s hard to think of anything more important than protecting educational institutions like Norwich. They not only develop the nation’s future Generals 和 Admirals, but also the next generation of cyber warriors, 工程师, 护士, 老师, 商业领袖. For the students to live by the Norwich motto – “I Will Try!” – we need to set them free, 和 keep them safe so that they can go far, go further, 和 go beyond. Rapid7就是为此而存在的.