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Secure Sandbox
Teach, train, and test the security of strategic systems in the safety of an isolated world.
Secure Sandbox provides you with a flexible, secure environment that can be used for cybersecurity education, training exercises, and software testing. Located in a virtual cloud, the Secure Sandbox simulates a real-world networked environment with virtual machines that act as web servers, mail servers, and other types of machines. You can add preconfigured virtual machines or build your own virtual machines. Access to the Sandbox is provided through a web browser or VMware's View client from any location.
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For Education
Secure Sandbox is ideal for use by an instructor or school for cybersecurity training. It can come fully stocked with tools and targets, allowing for a full range of security exploration in a safe, secure environment. Access to the Sandbox is controlled completely by the instructor, who can create and administer course material.
For Cybersecurity
Your organization can run your own red team-blue team cybersecurity excercise by using the Alphaville cybersecurity training environment in the Secure Sandbox. Alphaville is a simulation environment that features computing resources that are typically found at a city hall, police station, power plant, library, and school.
For Software Testing
Since the Secure Sandbox is isolated and not connected to the Internet or other production networks, it is ideal for for testing against live security threats, such as malware, viruses, rootkits and more. It is perfect for testing software vulnerabilities and capabilities.
Questions? 
Email the Merit Sales Team at sales@merit.edu
 or call 734-527-5785.
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Alphaville Cybersecurity Exercises
Alphaville, created by the Michigan Cyber Range, is a virtual training environment specifically designed to test cyber security skills. Alphaville consists of information systems and networks that are found in a typical information ecosystem. Each location has different operating systems, different security priorities, and different challenges for participants to encounter and overcome.
Alphaville is more than a collection of networks. It also presents the opportunity for participants to see how information systems in a community are truly interconnected. As participants navigate through the heterogeneous networks, they find that information discovered at one location can be used to gain access or elevate privileges at another site.
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Types of exercises include:
Red vs. Blue
Bring your IT staff to compete as the Blue Team and defend Alphaville from a Red Team of hackers intent on disrupting communications, stealing critical information or intellectual property, and causing mayhem for political reasons. These exercises create a demanding atmosphere that stresses team communication and documentation in addition to individual skills.
Paintball
Under the pressure of a timed free-for-all, teams need to penetrate systems, plant their flag, secure the system, and move on. Teams can attack each other, replacing one flag with an opponent's. The team with the most flags left planted when time is called wins the day.
Capture the Flag
Alphaville is also an excellent venue for Capture the Flag exercises. Individual participants use penetration testing and forensic skills to gather clues and collect evidence. A self-paced exercise, the CTF is a means to assess individual skills across a broad range of systems and challenges.
Questions?
Email the Merit Sales Team at sales@merit.edu
or call 734-527-5785.
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Cybersecurity Certifications Courses
The Michigan Cyber Range provides students and IT professionals with a solid foundation in a number of cybersecurity disciplines. Through hands-on learning and challenging coursework, students gain technical knowledge and experience that prepares them through challenging hands-on exercises and labs. Each course prepares you for real-life situations and for the related certification test.
The training curriculum for courses is developed by Mile2, a provider of vendor neutral professional certifications for the cyber security industry. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has named Mile2 a preferred provider of cybersecurity certifications.
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Based on NICE Framework
The Michigan Cyber Range provides a cybersecurity education experience based upon the National Institute of Standards and Technology National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE). The NICE framework organizes the skills that America's cybersecurity workforce requires to support the National Preparedness Goals of detecting, mitigating, and defeating malicious actors and cyber-based threats.
NIST and NICCS Mapped
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) list Mile2 as an approved provider of certifications for cybersecurity professionals.
NSA/CNSS Accredited
National Security Agency (NSA) and the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) recognizes that Mile2's certification courseware meets national training standards.
Questions?
Email the Merit Sales Team at sales@merit.edu
or call 734-527-5785.
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Managed Firewall
Increase the security of your Internet, intranet and extranet, without supporting additional hardware.
Developed by AT&T, Managed Firewall is an on-premises solution that allows users to take advantage of all of the benefits of a firewall without the burden of supporting additional hardware. All hardware and software components, configuration, installation, management, maintenance, monitoring and support is taken care of with Managed Firewall.
 Managed Firewall is E-rate eligible.
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Features
Fully managed end-to-end solution. Reduce the complexity associated with managing your IP network firewall.
Customize security policies
and define levels of security for users and applications.
Industry leading hardware and software
with proven and reliable technology.
Stateful inspection
with DMZ and Extranet support on most models.
Multiple VPN connectvity options
available uncluding client-to-site and site-to-site.
Questions?
Email the Merit Sales Team at sales@merit.edu
or call 734-527-5785.
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QuadMetrics
Signet Scope, A Predictive Modeling Tool for Measuring Security Risk
Developed by QuadMetrics, Signet Scope provides a detailed understanding of your Cyber-Security risk posture, using information that reflects the risk surface that it is projecting to the global Internet. This includes metrics that not only capture an instantaneous snapshot of these elements but also their temporal trends.
At its core, Signet Scope relies on the QuadMetrics Global Reputation System Platform, which is the broadest and most comprehensive collection of enterprise reputational information. Signet Scope helps organizations quickly understand their security risk posture from a holistic perspective and prioritize its responses. This tool can tackle one of the most challenging problems in cybersecurity, the measurement of cyber risk and the development of metrics that are useful in managing risk.
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Features
Provides A Network Overview
Provides a series of metrics that summarize your network reputation. It uses millions of individual reports to build a comprehensive view, including historical malicious activities.
Locates Active Threats
Tracks the most security-critical features of your network to find weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Measures Reputation
Provides convenient data-as-a-service access to raw reputational elements.
Global Routing Instability
Identifies weaknessess and vulnerabilities in you network.
Receive Cusomized Alerts
Proactive in nature, Signet Scope provides customized alerts when events of interest occur.
Compares Your Score
Compares your data and its evolution over time with comparisons to industry and sector averages.
Updates Continuously
All datasets are continuously updated on daily, weekly or monthly schedules.
This service is available in basic and premium annual subscriptions.
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Download the QuadMetrics Overview (PDF)
Questions?
Email the Merit Sales Team at sales@merit.edu
or call 734-527-5785.
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Managed Security
OneStone Information Assurance Portal
Developed by Above Security, OneStone Information Assurance Portal is a mangaged security service that protects your organization from external and internal threats, known and unknown. It is easy to deploy and provides immediate benefits. Guard your orgaization against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and stay compliant with rapidly changing industry and government regulations.
Utilizing Above Security's advanced security information and event management technology, and backed by a team of highly-trained security professionals and analysts in our security operations center, OneStone focuses on threats and incidents based on accurate real-time information. You are alerted the moment a threat is detected.
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Features
Cost Effective A fully managed service at the fraction of the cost of in-house security. An ideal solution for organizations with a limited budget, staff or resources
Improve Efficiency Increase performance by managing your security environment with real-time views.
Proactive Risk Management Identify and remediate vulnerabilities before they impact your business. Know how secure your organization is minute to minute.
More-Informed Decision Making Executives, IT security managers, security analysts and IT practitioners will utilize the tools in this information assurance portal. Make more effective risk-based business decisions at every level.
Advanced Security Options
Threat Management
Improve threat visibility and management
24x7 monitoring, management and notification of internal and external threats to your organization's network environment.
Vulnerability Management
Identify, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities
Provides on-demand scanning and assessment of the technical and environmental vulnerabilities in your computing infrastructure.
Log Management
Access historical log data
Extends the threat management capabilities by providing vital historical log information collected and processed by OneStone.
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Questions?
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The OneStone Information Assurance Portal
Download One of Our Security Whitepapers
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Duo Security Two-Factor Authentication
Provide an additional layer of protection over typical authentication.
Duo Security's authentication platform is the next generation of access security. It starts with a robust platform capable of providing secure access to any user, to any application, on any device over any network.
Duo integrates with VPNs, cloud apps, on-premise apps and more to allow you to quickly and easily set up your security solutions. With Duo's APIs, you can also integrate security into your existing custom environments.
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Michigan ID
Enables Single Sign On (SSO) across multiple applications and resources.
Michigan ID provides a framework based on federated identity that enables organizations to provide access to shared resources, applications and content.
This framework utilizes Merit's trusted and secure infrastructure. Michigan ID is a value-added service for Members with a dedicated connection to Merit's network backbone.
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Benefits
Single Sign On (SSO) for your organization
Only one password to remember.
Data security
All of your personal data is protected and secure, while eliminating redundant security principals for every organizational relationship. Uses
Merit's trusted, secure infrastructure and no sensitive information is passed over the network.
Share resources
Share access to mission critical resources and content across many organizations.
Reduce costs
Cut back on your access-related support costs and reduce administrative workload.
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How does it work?
Uses SAML, an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains, or between an Identity Provider and a Security Provider.
Active Directory / LDAP Integration means control remains with Member organization.
Merit can provide Hosted Authentication, creating and hosting an Identity Provider on behalf of the Member for a small annual fee.
Merit Professional Services are available for organizations needing assistance in bringing up an Identity Provider on their own.
Merit facilitates the relationship between Service Providers and Identity Providers.
Questions?
Email the Merit Sales Team at sales@merit.edu
or call 734-527-5785.
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Software Licensing for Members
Merit has negotiated licensing agreements with software providers to better serve and support our Members. Merit Software Licensing Service can provide licenses to Members at a reduced rate.
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Comodo SSL Certificates
Merit provides discounted SSL (secure socket layer) certificates from Comodo, a trusted international vendor. Comodo is an industry leader in security software, providing the highest levels of SSL security.
The following Comodo certificates are available:
Comodo SSL certificate
Comodo Wildcard Certificate
Comodo EV SSL Certificate
Comodo EV MDC Certificate
Questions?
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or call 734-527-5785.
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Providing Valuable Solutions to Michigan's Non-Profit Community
Founded in 1966, Merit Network is a non-profit, member-focused organization, serving higher education, K-12, government, health care, libraries, research institutions and other non-profits. A strategic partner in Michigan for nearly 50 years, Merit's diverse family of services is designed to meet the needs of our Member organizations.
As part of its mission, Merit continually seeks to develop services that provide quality, reliability and value for its diverse Membership.
Stay in touch with Merit to hear about the latest & greatest in security, professional development, events and more!
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