The University of La Sabana is a leading university in Colombia, known for being a reference for best practices in technology.

“In this environment, with extensive exchange of large amounts of data and wide-scale mobile and remote collaborative work, protecting the work of students and academics poses a major challenge for the IT administrators at UniSabana. Our students come from many cities and bring their own technology to campus, accessing our networks via Wi-Fi. Unlike corporate network users, students are not employees of the organization who can be penalized for improper network use, making management much more complicated,” explains Carlos Martinez, Technology Manager at UniSabana.

“We have to assume that some may be hackers or that the technology they use to access our network has been compromised by other hackers. Similarly, although many of our professors are experts in their field, they are not familiar with computers or how vulnerable they are to an attack. Opening a document from a student may seem safe, but it could contain something malicious. We have to adopt a Zero Trust approach and build our defenses on that basis; that is our philosophy.”

Certainly, with the evolution of threats, the implemented solutions were quickly overtaken over the years. The evaluated demonstrations left obvious vulnerabilities. The security solution offered by AndeanTrade allowed UniSabana to have the necessary visibility to make strategic business decisions, maintain connectivity securely, and enable access control to the right application, the right person, and at the right time, ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data.