About the Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) is a public university in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Founded in 1955, it is one of the oldest business school outside North America. Today, IBA Karachi is one of Pakistan's selective and highest-ranked institutes known for its business programs.
IBA's Network and Security Challenges
- Lacked the means to effectively allocate and manage bandwidth.
- Lacked the means to monitor the network, network status, and network usage.
- Lacked the means to understand the network security status.
- Lacked the means to configure and manage user-based internet permissions.
- Lacked the means to protect the web application servers.
- Lacked the means to monitor the online behavior of visitors.
Sangfor's Solution for IBA
IBA deployed one unit of Sangfor IAG (Internet Access Gateway) and one unit of Sangfor NGAF (Next Generation Application Firewall) at each of IBA Karachi’s two campuses, the Main Campus and the City Campus. Sangfor IAG is deployed behind Sangfor NGAF on the network of each campus. Watch this video interview with Wajeeh Zaidi, Head of ICT at IBA Karachi to learn more.
Customer Testimonial with Institute Business Administration Karachi
As the world's first next generation firewall integrated with web application firewall (WAF), Sangfor NGAF not only protects local users on the intranet but also IBA's public-facing web applications hosted in the demilitarized zone (DMZ). Sangfor NGAF also delivers advanced threat detection capability thanks to the built-in Engine Zero, Sangfor's AI-powered malware engine, to protect IBA from the latest malware.
Sangfor IAG helps IBA authenticate users to the network, manage bandwidth, control the use of applications with granular policies, and provide reports on user activity.
How IBA Karachi Benefited from Sangfor's Solution
- Full visibility of network status and usage with detailed reports for easier network management.
- Bandwidth management is more flexible with role-based and time-phased management.
- Simple and convenient application control to prohibit the use of specified applications.
- Simplies the management of visitors' network access with SMS authentication.
- Sangfor NGAF provides robust protection for the internal network and web applications.