Elastic Success Stories in Higher Education

Success Stories in Higher Education

Universities stand poised on a data security tightrope, tasked with safeguarding vast amounts of sensitive user, behavioral, and endpoint data while fostering open academic environments. This balancing act becomes more challenging when hampered by operational inefficiencies. Managing data hosted on disparate platforms creates maintenance difficulties that cause an increase in security vulnerabilities, limits collaboration efforts and strains IT service capabilities. The search for a unified, cost-effective data solution is becoming more essential for securing modern institution networks.

The Elastic Stack, a unified data platform, provides actionable insights and a cost-effective approach that empowers universities to protect sensitive data, optimize operations and unlock the full potential of their diverse ecosystems. This diverse network, much like cities, generates and stores information from tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff. With Elastic, threats to university data are caught before they occur, systems run smoothly and collaboration and innovation are made easier in an intuitive, enterprise-ready platform.

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App State

Appalachian State University

Pressing Need to Search, Analyze and Act On Alerts

Appalachian State University overcomes data challenges within the education sector with Elastic.






PROFILE


About: Premier public undergraduate institution in the state of North Carolina
Industry: Education
Location: USA

GOALS


  • Secure vast amounts of user, behavioral, and endpoint data
  • Secure endpoints and get a baseline for what is “normal” for those endpoints

SOLUTIONS


  • Using Elasticsearch, Appalachian State can do more with the teams, data, and requirements they have to create a proactive defense that produces actionable fixes

RESULTS


  • Improved efficiency by using data to enrich logs from disparate sources
  • Searches are returned in 2 seconds for 90 days of data
  • Ability to easily build dashboards

University of Nevada

OHSU

IU OmniSOC

UC Davis