Case Study: Central New Mexico Community College achieves unified security and zero-day threat protection with Check Point Software's SandBlast Zero-Day Protection

Central New Mexico Community College Improves Security Defenses While Simplifying Operations

Central New Mexico Community College, the largest community college in New Mexico with eight locations around Albuquerque, needed to refresh its firewall and strengthen defenses across a large attack surface on a limited budget. IT leaders wanted to simplify operations by consolidating multiple security systems, stop new and unknown threats that could evade reputation-based tools, and add smarter, more granular controls for users and applications.

CNM chose Check Point SandBlast Zero-Day Protection with Threat Emulation and Threat Extraction and deployed Check Point gateways managed from a single console. The solution unified firewall, IPS, web filtering, application control and identity awareness into one pane of glass, giving immediate visibility via SmartEvent/SmartLog, blocking zero-day attacks, sanitizing risky content, and significantly reducing management overhead while improving prevention and control.

Central New Mexico Community College

Johnny Garcia

Senior Network Administrator