Case Study
Government: Midwest County
When a large Midwest county government — already stung by a costly rootkit infection — ran a 45-day evaluation of the CC/B1 Platform™, the platform detected and stopped a sustained, high volume of priority level-one attacks and became the county’s consolidated security layer.
Challenge
When a local or county government suffers a cyber attack, it isn’t just the entity’s network at risk — it’s the residents who depend on it for safe drinking water, utility access, and critical emergency services. Government organizations have become prime targets: they run critical IT systems on lean budgets with minimal staff, and their networks hold a trove of valuable personal information. Across the roughly 90,000 units of local government in the United States, security sophistication varies widely, expanding connected devices keep widening the attack surface, and surveys of municipal IT officials consistently report frequent security incidents.
This county knew the risk firsthand. Despite prior investment in multiple commercial security products, it had suffered a rootkit virus infection that cost significant money and staff time to clean up.
Approach
The county embarked on a 45-day test of the CC/B1 Platform™. The platform operates as a “Firewall Everywhere” — monitoring ingress, egress, and lateral traffic across the network, not just the perimeter — with automated detection and response: intrusion detection drives automatic IP blocking, with whitelisting, timed auto-unblock, and a full event log.
The appliance deployed in minutes and was demonstrating its value within the first 72 hours.
Outcome
Over the 45-day evaluation, the platform detected and stopped a sustained, high volume of priority level-one attacks against the county’s network.
On the strength of the test, the county consolidated its security stack onto the platform, replacing the collection of prior tools — and its small IT department gained continuous monitoring visibility into the network it defends, helping a lean staff sleep much better at night.