Case Study: Universita’ Degli Studi Di Palermo gains visibility into vulnerabilities and risk with Rapid7 InsightIDR and InsightVM

Universita’ Degli Studi Di Palermo gains visibility across 42,000 students and 3,600 staff with Rapid7

The Universita’ degli Studi di Palermo, a large Italian university, faced the challenge of monitoring hundreds of thousands of assets, including student devices, with a very small IT and security team. They needed to securely collect and retain logs for compliance and gain visibility into their overall risk and vulnerabilities. To address this, the university turned to vendor Rapid7 and its products InsightIDR and InsightVM.

Rapid7's solution provided the university with a centralized, cloud-based platform for log management, search, and data visualization. This gave the team a complete "panorama" view of their vulnerabilities and overall risk, eliminating the need to query individual servers. The results included faster, more intuitive investigations, the detection of incidents like malware and SYN flooding, and secure log storage that proved resilient even when a backup site failed. The university is very satisfied with the solution's ease of use and out-of-the-box value provided by Rapid7.

Universita’ Degli Studi Di Palermo