SecureIIS Protects Iowa Department for the Blind From Worms and Other Threats

The state-supported department serves approximately 7,000 blind or visually impaired Iowans, offering a variety of services, including library, vocational rehabilitation, independent living services and public education, as well as adjustment and orientation services for the newly blind. Several years ago the Iowa Department for the Blind had its main website defaced. It started looking at various security solutions, they narrowed choices to behavior-based security suites. Signature-based solutions wouldn't protect against unknown threats, and having had their website defaced, they figured that a behavior-based solution would catch that type of activity - no matter how the attack was executed.