Southern California University Turns Back Denial of Service Attacks With TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention Systems

Overview

Deploying its first network in 1999 brought University of Redlands a lot more than connectivity to support its 5,000 faculty, students and staff. It also triggered the onset of crippling Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that compromised the Southern California liberal arts and sciences institution's academic research and communications. With its firewalls clearly unable to combat the DoS threats, the Redlands IT department sought an alternative solution that would provide the comprehensive and pervasive protection it required, but with one important caveat. The security solution also had to interoperate seamlessly with the university's Cisco Gigabit network. The IT department learned of the TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) from 3Com.