The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has overhauled its 13-building IT infrastructure with Enterasys solutions. Enterasys is the network infrastructure and security division of Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG. The solution helps to better secure the communication of its users. By utilizing the Enterasys C-Series and N-Series switches, along with the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and NMS Policy Manager, MBL is now better prepared to stop the spread of malware, viruses and other IT security threats that reduce network access and slow user productivity.
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Robert Loyot, Director – IT, Marine Biological Laboratory, said, “Due to the large and constantly rotating number of students, scientists and conference attendees, the MBL’s network is as vulnerable to inside threats as outside threats. With so many transient stakeholders touching our network, we needed a role-based security solution that would prevent these users from bringing all their problems into our infrastructure.”
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“With NMS and IPS, we now have a dynamic network that gathers evidence of an attacker’s activity, restricts the attacker’s access, and reconfigures to stop any harm to our network,” Loyot said.
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Loyot also added, “The Enterasys network now powers a secure WLAN that supports voice and data. The QoS automatically prioritizes voice traffic, while the NMS Policy Manager grants role-based wireless access.”
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Enterasys has also helped MBL to create an off-campus WLAN to solve a connectivity challenge for its summer housing, a location that had proven to be geographically difficult to network.Â
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