Case Study: Colby-Sawyer College achieves virus- and worm-free network protection with Qualys (QualysGuard)

No Admission For Viruses, Worms and Malware at Colby-Sawyer College

Colby-Sawyer College, a small liberal arts school of roughly 1,000 students, struggled with repeated worm and malware outbreaks (Welchia, MS Blaster, Sasser) that crippled network availability. The campus’s decentralized environment—students and many staff with administrative control over their machines and hundreds of unmanaged systems—made traditional enforcement and manual patching ineffective and time-consuming.

The college adopted QualysGuard’s on-demand vulnerability management to discover assets, prioritize and track fixes, and scan new images and systems (internal systems three times weekly, externals twice weekly). The solution delivered affordable, automated vulnerability audits and comprehensive reporting, dramatically reducing remediation workload, speeding patching, and greatly improving overall security and network availability.

Colby Sawyer

Scott Brown

Information Security Analyst