About Srinakharinwirot University (SWU)
Srinakharinwirot University (SWU), established in 1949, is a prominent public university in Thailand, operating from its campuses in Bangkok and Nakhon Nayok. Renowned for its teacher training programs and health sciences expertise, SWU is committed to community service, cultural preservation, and international collaboration. The university aims to blend academic excellence with impactful real-world applications, making it a leader in educational innovation.
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Security Challenges
- Lack of a Centralized Security Operations Platform: SWU has deployed multiple security products, such as firewall and endpoint security, but these systems operated independently without integration. As a result, the security team had to manage multiple platforms and manually correlate alerts from each system. This process was time-consuming and complex, delaying detection and response times and potentially leading to missed threats.
- Small IT Security Team: The lack of a security operations platform was further challenging due to a small IT security team, which was already stretched by the demands of daily operations and incident management.
IT Infrastructure Challenges
- Infrastructure Challenges: SWU’s educational applications were hampered by traditional infrastructure issues, including performance bottlenecks, reliability concerns, and scalability limitations. A robust and centralized system was essential for simplifying operations and ensuring effective application management.
Sangfor Solutions & Their Benefits
1. Simplified Security Operations with Sangfor XDR
- Centralized Threat Management: Sangfor XDR is a unified security operations platform that consolidates telemetry and alerts from SWU’s existing security products. The platform uses AI and analytics to analyze and correlate the data to detect incidents. This allows SWU’s security team to manage all alerts and incidents in one location instead of switching between dashboards, significantly improving the university’s ability to detect and respond to threats.
- Seamless Third-Party Integration: Sangfor XDR’s Xstream feature seamlessly integrated the platform with SWU’s existing security products, including firewall and endpoint security solution, allowing the university to upgrade its security infrastructure with minimal interruption.
- Noise Reduction: Sangfor XDR's intelligent alert correlation filters out noise, significantly lowering false positives. This helps the university's team concentrate on genuine and critical security incidents.
- Intuitive Investigation: Once an incident is detected, Sangfor XDR reconstructs the attack chain and timeline, enabling security personnel to quickly identify the entry point, the sequence of events, and affected assets. It provides all the necessary evidence for staff to verify the threat and make an informed response.
- Automated Response: Sangfor XDR offers a built-in Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) module with preconfigured playbooks and supports custom playbooks. With SOAR, SWU’s team can configure XDR to automatically respond to detected security threats, enabling rapid containment of attacks, saving time, and minimizing impact.
- 24/7 Service and Expert Support: Sangfor Managed Detection and Response (MDR) offers continuous 24/7 monitoring, threat detection, and response. Backed by over 400 security experts, Sangfor MDR relieves SWU’s team from the burden of around-the-clock monitoring. It also provides timely notifications of detected security incidents and remote assistance to help resolve incidents quickly.
Key Feature Highlight: Unified management with advanced AI analytics ensures quick incident detection and resolution, enhancing overall security posture.
2. Streamlined Infrastructure with Sangfor HCI
- Consolidated System Management: Sangfor HCI offers a single dashboard for managing virtual machines, storage, and security.
- High Reliability and Advanced Features: Guarantees smooth operation of educational applications.
- Hybrid Cloud Integration: Sangfor Managed Cloud Services (MCS) simplifies a future transition to a hybrid cloud, merging the on-premises Sangfor HCI environment with a Sangfor HCI-based local, in-country cloud service.
Key Feature Highlight: Centralized control simplifies operations while improving system reliability and scalability.
A Vision for the Future
Dr. Atasit Pattanasiri, Deputy Director of the Computer Center at SWU, recognizes the pivotal role Sangfor plays in reducing complexity within SWU’s IT framework. The university is eager to deepen its partnership with Sangfor to further enhance the reliability and security of its IT infrastructure.
Dr. Atasit articulates his vision of synergy as “collaboration or working together.” He emphasizes that when products work seamlessly together, digital transformation becomes smoother. This collaboration enables efficient data analysis that drives progress throughout the university. Through this synergy with Sangfor, SWU is poised to achieve its digital transformation goals, creating a secure and innovative environment for both students and staff.
