Manipal University: Securing Manipal

Solution Requirement

Manipal Education and Medical Group wanted a solution that would help them keep all the systems secured. With the huge number of users as well as a huge amount of important data, security was of utmost importance to the group.

The main concern of the Manipal group was to keep the systems secure along with having restrictions on certain website access.

Solution Deployment

Sophos implemented two solutions for the Manipal group—Proxy-based web filter application and Endpoint security solution.

Sophos has implemented proxy-based web filter application for the same. The solution acts as a web proxy on the back-end of the Manipal system. It blocks users from accessing websites that are not allowed for access to the official systems as per the group’s internet policy. The solution also helps to manage application blocking. The solution offers category-based web and application blocking, control over removable media and mobile devices, and also data-loss prevention.

Solution Benefits

With the earlier system in place at Manipal Group, unwanted site blocking was not achieved. Having site- as well as application-blocking is one of the biggest controls that Sophos solution gave Manipal. The solution also enabled Manipal to gain more visibility on the user activities
along with a report on the same.