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Keep campus open, and keep it safe.

A campus network is wide open by design. Thousands of personal devices, all coming and going. ThreatSTOP filters DNS and IP traffic to block malware, phishing, and command-and-control across campus, without locking down the network students and faculty count on every day.

Open by design, hard to defend.

A campus network is open by design, with thousands of personal devices joining and leaving every day and sensitive student and research data to protect. Locking it down is not an option, so the real challenge is blocking malware, phishing, and command-and-control without getting in the way of the people who rely on the network.

Campus segments
Open access preserved
CAMPUS SEGMENTS OPEN INTERNET MALWARE / PHISHING / C2 DORMS LABS BYOD ADMIN ThreatSTOP DNS + IP filter INTERNET
Every campus segment (dorms, labs, personal devices, and admin) resolves through the ThreatSTOP filter. Malicious lookups are blocked at the filter; everything else keeps flowing to the open internet.

Manual blacklisting, gone for good.

The help desk at the University of Baltimore was drowning in malware tickets. Then a high-privileged machine turned up botted. ThreatSTOP stopped it from calling home, so the team could quarantine the machine before any damage was done. Pulling from more than 900 threat intelligence sources, it took manual blacklisting off their plate for good.

"ThreatSTOP has eliminated manual blacklisting and remediation, and reduced help desk tickets related to malware by 90%, to only 1-2 per month."
Mike Connors
Information Security Analyst, University of Baltimore
"The decrease in malware incidents has allowed our team to focus on other tasks."
Dave Wells
Call Center Manager, University of Baltimore
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University of Baltimore, University System of Maryland
90%
fewer malware help-desk tickets, down to 1-2 per month
Source: University of Baltimore
up to 40%
bandwidth saved across campus
Source: University of Baltimore
900+
threat intelligence feeds curated and enforced
Source: ThreatSTOP platform

Why campus IT teams lean on ThreatSTOP.

01
Keep the network open
You can filter out threats without clamping down on the busy, open network students and faculty rely on all day.
02
Cover every personal device
Protect thousands of personal, unmanaged devices at the DNS and IP layers. There is no agent for anyone to install.
03
Stop threats before they connect
Malware, phishing, command and control: we shut those connections down across campus before they ever complete.

From buried in tickets to quiet at the help desk.

A campus network is wide open by design. Thousands of personal devices, all coming and going. ThreatSTOP filters DNS and IP traffic to block malware, phishing, and command-and-control across campus, without locking down the network students and faculty count on every day.

DNS LOOKUPS PROTECTIVE DNS THREATSTOP DNS FILTER MALICIOUS BLOCKED CLEAN RESOLVES
Every campus DNS lookup funnels through the ThreatSTOP DNS filter. Malicious lookups are blocked while clean lookups resolve, so the open network keeps working.

Keep campus open. Keep threats out.

Filter malware, phishing, and command-and-control at the DNS and IP layers, right across your open campus. Request a trial, or talk to an engineer.