Overview
To ensure Granite Edvance can continue to achieve their mission-critical goals of helping local families obtain the financial support they need for higher education, all devices and assets connected to the network need to be secure and protected. So when their existing tools, both Lansweeper and Tenable’s Nessus, were proving to be more difficult, limiting, and time consuming to use and manage than they were worth, Granite Edvance began the search for an improved, alternative solution. Once the team saw runZero’s vast discovery capabilities, leveraging its proprietary, unauthenticated scanner to efficiently extract asset details and accurately fingerprint operating systems, services, and hardware, they were hooked.
Favorable Outcomes
How runZero helped Granite Edvance:
Discovered more assets
runZero enabled the Granite Edvance team to discover additional assets on the network, including open ports.
A full and accurate inventory
Identifying all assets on their networks enabled Granite Edvance to take a proactive approach to their security.
Utilized EDR API
The functionality allowed the team to sync and enrich the cyber asset inventory, as well as discover gaps in their EDR coverage.
Time savings
With fast scan times and ease of use, the team has been able to focus efforts on more mission critical needs.
Problem
Granite Edvance is a non-profit agency committed to helping New Hampshire families plan and pay for higher education for nearly 60 years. It is the responsibility of Chris Nadeau, VP of Information Security, and his team to oversee that all devices and assets connected to the network, from HVAC and OT devices to anything with an IP address, are secure and protected. Their existing tools, Lansweeper and Tenable’s Nessus, proved to be difficult, limiting, and time consuming. So, they began the search for an improved, alternative solution.
Solution
They first leveraged runZero’s free 21-day trial to determine if it was the best solution for them. Once they saw runZero’s vast discovery capabilities, leveraging its proprietary, unauthenticated scanner to efficiently extract asset details and accurately fingerprint operating systems, services, and hardware, Nadeau and his team were hooked. Now with a full and accurate inventory of all the assets and devices they have on their networks, Nadeau and his team are able to perform comprehensive cyber risk management and mitigation for a more proactive approach to their security program.
Outcomes
Nadeau and his team are no longer slowed down by time consuming vulnerability scanners to scan their network and provide the asset data they need. runZero’s fast scan times paired with its ease of use have saved Nadeau and his team valuable time to dedicate to more mission critical needs.
Why runZero?
“With runZero, we can go out and find everything on the network, including open ports, something we couldn’t do with Nessus. It helped us identify when our HVAC company had a bunch of things connected to our network that no one knew about. We ran runZero and were able to see that these things were on the wrong subnet and shouldn’t be tied into our direct network. That has really helped us.” - Chris Nadeau | VP of Information Security | Granite Edvance
