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SolarWinds Government Case Study

North Carolina Secretary Of State Case Study

Introduction

This case study of North Carolina Secretary of State Office is based on a March 2019 survey of SolarWinds Government customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select SolarWinds Government:

  • IT challenges their agency faced prior to implementing SolarWinds products:
    • The difficulty of determining whether a security incident occurred and what happened during the breach
    • Inadequate automation of compliance reporting

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of SolarWinds Government that the surveyed organization uses:

  • Regular user in the following SolarWind product areas:
    • Network management
    • Systems, applications, servers, and storage monitoring
    • Security and compliance
  • Uses SolarWinds products in the service / on the site
  • Agency use cases for leveraging SolarWinds products:
    • Network performance monitoring
    • Troubleshooting network problems or failures
    • Troubleshooting configuration issues
    • Monitoring the integrity of systems/servers
    • Monitoring Security Incidents and Vulnerabilities, and Improving Compliance

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with SolarWinds Government:

  • Results they were able to produce using SolarWinds products:
    • We are still in the infancy stage of configuring.
  • Favorite SolarWinds products:
    • Network Configuration Manager
    • Server & Application Monitor
    • Log & Event Manager
    • Serv-U FTP Server
  • Purchased their SolarWinds products because of:
    • Recommendation from a colleague




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of SolarWinds by TechValidate.

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