Discover how U.S. government organizations protect over 100 agencies using Flowmon to detect threats, identify problems and measure user experience.
In today's world, cybersecurity is of the utmost importance, especially for organizations that hold sensitive information. This is particularly important for government agencies, as they have access to critical data that hackers and nation-state threat actors would love to obtain. That's why cybersecurity overseer agencies have a significant responsibility to protect their internal security, network performance and availability.
One such agency in the United States is responsible for overseeing more than 100 separate governmental agencies. To help them keep track of it all, the agency turned to Progress Flowmon for its security needs:
The Situation
This agency’s internal security, network performance and availability was vital to its success. So, the agency needed a solution with detailed insights into the performance of its physical and virtual network environments, plus the ability to forensically troubleshoot network issues. This would allow the agency to leverage enriched flow data — giving it the power to identify anomalous network activity quickly and efficiently. What’s more, this agency’s network is of massive scale that both includes physical networks and a vast virtual and cloud environment — as a result, it needed a solution that could handle a variety of heavy workloads on demand.
The Key Challenges
- Lack of insight into the performance of its physical and virtual network environments.
- The need to identify anomalous activity quickly and efficiently within the agency’s network.
- Very large network with massive traffic that needed to store data for historical reference.
How Progress Flowmon Helped
Flowmon provides a network performance monitoring solution that tracks bandwidth usage, understands traffic structure and pinpoints the root cause of network problems — all while detecting and alerting IT of anomalous behaviors in network traffic, such as ransomware and security threats.
- Anomalous event detection helped identify network threats early and thwarted attempted attacks.
- Bandwidth consumption details assessed network capacity and helped IT teams address scaling needs.
- Network performance metrics identified performance issues early, helping IT teams to preserve positive user experiences.
Overall, the agency's adoption of Flowmon has made a significant improvement in its cybersecurity posture. With Flowmon, the agency has achieved high availability and redundancy in its deployment architecture, which ensures uninterrupted network monitoring and protection.
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