Case study

This agency maintains the highest standards for ensuring the safety, soundness and security of its U.S. and international systems. The agency serves the American people and strengthens national security. Its mission is to manage the U.S. Government’s finances effectively, promoting economic growth and stability, and ensuring the safety, soundness, and security of the U.S. and international financial systems. Within this agency, a communications systems group maintains the private data network infrastructure and all of its bureaus. As a high-profile division of the United States government, this agency not only handles extremely sensitive information, it is a target for malicious attacks. As the manager of system security for multiple department bureaus, their Systems Integrator needed a new level of security to prevent unknown and targeted malicious attacks for which no antivirus signatures exist. To reduce risk and demonstrate compliance, they also needed a way to control unauthorized applications—whether they were malicious or not—from running on the governments’ critical machines. The contractor chose Bit9 Parity Application White listing to prevent any unauthorized applications from executing on the department’s critical systems.