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East Grand Rapids Schools Find Security and Economy With the TippingPoint X505 From 3Com

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Overview East Grand Rapids Public Schools is located in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA with 350 employees and 2,800 students. School is posed security risks to the suburban Grand Rapids school system. Administrators, in particular, feared that a virus, worm, or spyware could penetrate the district's network from the Internet and alter or access confidential school records. East Grand Rapids Public Schools began examining firewalls from Cisco, WatchGuard, and 3Com when administrators learned of the innovative, high-value TippingPoint X505 platform from TippingPoint, a division of 3Com.

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Publisher	3Com	File Format	HTML
Date Published	January 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Firewalls, Network Security, Intrusion Detection Systems

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