HTL Perg Success Story

The Enemy Within

Sector

Education

Company

The Höhere Technische Bundeslehranstalt (HTL) Perg provides the subjects "Data Processing and Organization", finishing with a qualification equivalent to A-Levels, and a technical college for IT. The school pursues a clear specialist orientation as a preparation for the later professional life of the students. It currently has 37 teachers training approx. 300 students.

Initial situation

The HTL Perg was founded in 1999 and after the move in 2007, the IT infrastructure was optimized. For IT security, a solution was required that is easy to integrate into the existing Microsoft administration environment, easy to maintain as well as fitting in with the school’s budget. The main focus was on dealing with the hacking activities of the students and protecting them from illegal websites.

Challenge

"The students of today are the IT experts of tomorrow. Our IT security infrastructure based on SecureGUARD and the Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway has to prove that it lives up to the inventiveness and imagination of our students, day in, day out." Werner Schöller, IT-Manager of the HTL Perg.

The solution and its benefits

The HTL Perg uses the SecureGUARD TMG950 appliance based on the Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 from Microsoft. All security features of the solution, such as edge firewall, forward proxy (IP address- and user-based, i.e. with authentication), secure Web publishing, VPN access, IPS, malware inspection, URL filtering, monitoring and reporting, are used.
The administration of the school works in a Microsoft environment. During user authentication, the TMG 2010 directly accesses the Active Directory, which saves time when configuring the firewall and minimizes the probability of errors. The convenient maintenance and administration features are a definite advantage.

"The decision for a security solution for our training centre fell on the SecureGUARD TMG series because there is no other security solution which can be integrated into our system so seamlessly, thus ensuring optimum protection." Werner Schöller, IT-Manager of the HTL Perg.