This year I am enrolled in the PSEO program at Century college. To keep up with what is going on at my high school, I subscribed to the Woodbury High School events mailing list. Oddly enough, the host it was coming from was none other than a host in the domain of trend micro. So I did a quick DNS query and found out that the South Washington County schools (District 833) are using an off site hosted email solution from Trend Micro called, InterScan™ Messaging Hosted Service.
blackbox:~# host --anything sowashco.k12.mn.us
sowashco.k12.mn.us A 63.225.128.3
sowashco.k12.mn.us MX 10 in.sjc.mx.trendmicro.com
!!! sowashco.k12.mn.us MX host in.sjc.mx.trendmicro.com is not canonical
sowashco.k12.mn.us NS authns1.mpls.qwest.net
sowashco.k12.mn.us NS authns2.dnvr.qwest.net
sowashco.k12.mn.us NS authns3.sttl.qwest.net
sowashco.k12.mn.us SOA authns1.mpls.qwest.net dns-admin.qwestip.net (
2007092800 ;serial (version)
10800 ;refresh period (3 hours)
3600 ;retry interval (1 hour)
604800 ;expire time (1 week)
86400 ;default ttl (1 day)
)
I had been meaning to check into District 833′s (url filtration) methods for quite some time, so I would be able to figure out similar ways of imaging and control of the six (operational) machines on my Local Area network.
The statistics on their network, according to a testimonial posted on Trend Micro’s website:
- fiber optic switches that connect all 24 school district sites together
- 3,000+ workstations
- 30,000 spyware and virus accomplice hits every day (during the school year)
- 650,000 messages a day about 640,000 of those messages are spam
[Dietsche] continued, “When any end user logs on to a workstation, InterScan Web Security Suite checks the Active Directory to verify that the user is authorized to be on the network. Verification is instantaneous and scanning begins without the end user even knowing it.” Dietsche also can track events by user accounts. “This is a huge advantage for the IT staff,” he said. “In the past, we found it difficult to isolate a security issue. But now, LDAP authentication enables us to get log reports that identify who the affected users are and which of them are constantly running into viruses.”
I thought that was way cool how all of these solutions can come together in one cohesive structure.
