Commission Scolaire de Rouyn-Noranda delivers education to 5,000 \u2013 6,000 students across the Rouyn-Noranda region of Quebec. The IT department supports two secondary schools, fifteen primary schools, a poly-vocational center and a center for adult learning. IT functions are run from a centralized administration office. At any given time the team is deploying several projects all of which must either consider or are cybersecurity investments.<\/p>\n
The school board has been able to avoid any serious cyber breaches to date, but have noticed a big increase in phishing attempts targeting the administration. Email is the one vector that the IT team does not feel they have 100% control over because they can\u2019t control what a user clicks on. This is especially acute for teams that receive a lot of attachments as part of normal business, like the finance department. To help protect against this they had already taken steps to bolster their anti-spam systems and were looking for additional cost-effective perimeter security.<\/p>\n
D-Zone was completely seamless to implement. As a busy team being able to implement CIRA\u2019s D-Zone DNS firewall as a layer of protection required only a few minutes of set-up for each network being secured. The architecture also makes it easier to provide added security to remote sites and to any segregated networks, like the public wifi networks.<\/p>\n
At the time of this success story, five networks have been added to the service. Being able to see a roll-up of all networks allows a simple view of the threat landscape due to DNS lookups helps to monitor for spikes in risky traffic. They have also applied content filtering across the networks to ensure age-appropriate access to web content. Using custom URL filtering rules they can instantly add new spear phishing threats, that may not be picked up in global threat analysis. A thirty day snapshot reveals 71 blocked attempt to visit sites containing malware or phishing and hundreds to inappropriate content. What made D-Zone DNS Firewall such an easy decision was the great value it provides to Quebec schools when compared to the alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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