Case Study: OSPI (Washington State) achieves protection of 1.1M student records and thwarts thousands of daily attacks with Globalscape DMZ Gateway

OSPI Adds DMZ Gateway® to Protect Internal Network

The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in Washington State manages sensitive education records for about 1.1 million students and teachers and processes some 10,000 files (~2 GB) per month. OSPI was running Globalscape EFT/Secure FTP servers but had EFT installed outside the internal firewall and was experiencing 3,000–5,000 malicious attacks per day (at least one attempt per hour), so they engaged Globalscape to strengthen their file-transfer security.

OSPI implemented Globalscape DMZ Gateway, which places a lightweight proxy in the DMZ while EFT maintains an outbound, persistent session inside the firewall so data is never stored in the DMZ. Globalscape’s solution removed insecure inbound connections, reduced exposure and points of failure, supported PCI DSS §1.3.7 compliance, and provided real-time, efficient file delivery without store-and-forward—significantly improving OSPI’s security posture and reducing the attack surface.

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