Case Study: Prestigious German University achieves high-availability connectivity and protects groundbreaking discoveries with Forcepoint NGFW

Prestigious German University Connects Researchers and Protects Groundbreaking Discoveries with Forcepoint NGFW

A prestigious, internationally recognized research university in Frankfurt that serves about 48,000 students faced a critical challenge: its mesh-style, highly distributed network had to provide always-on connectivity for real-time experiments and global collaborations while protecting valuable intellectual property. Any network outage or intrusion risked disrupting research progress and exposing sensitive data, so the university needed high availability and consistent security across many locations.

The university deployed Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall with built-in SD‑WAN, using virtual contexts for per-site routing and policies and a centralized Security Management Center for single-pane management. This delivered scalable, high-availability protection (NSS Labs–recognized), allowed policy and software updates without downtime, reduced administration time, and helped safeguard research data and continuous connectivity across the campus and partner sites.