Case Study: Grand Canyon Education achieves enhanced security and performance visibility with ExtraHop Reveal(x)

Finding Value in Visibility for Both Security and Performance

Grand Canyon Education (GCE), an educational shared‑services provider supporting university programs and services nationwide, needed better visibility to protect and optimize its network while delivering consistent service to students and staff. Facing security gaps and the need for analytics that could serve multiple teams—security, database, networking, and telecom—GCE also required a solution that would help them quickly adapt to widespread remote access demands during COVID‑19.

GCE deployed ExtraHop Reveal(x), integrated its packet‑level insights with the SIEM, and established baselines to detect anomalies and pinpoint root causes rapidly. The result was a more proactive security posture, streamlined alerts and key data for operations, improved performance monitoring across departments, and faster mitigation of vulnerabilities—plus practical support for the organization’s shift to remote access.

Grand Canyon Education

David-John Fernandez

IT Security Engineer