Case Studies

Netscope Network Assessment for National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)

ISSUE
As the premier national resource center for recovering missing children and preventing abuse, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), has worked on over 73,000 cases and helped to recover more than 48,000 children. The NCMEC website serves as a critical tool in missing-children cases. Due to the urgency of their mission, NCMEC needed a network performance and security assessment.

SOLUTION

• Identified needs for the network using DSA’s Netscope assessment tool

• Analyzed mission critical systems, corporate assets and short-term goals with NCMEC officials

• Established network performance, physical and personnel risk baselines

• Distinguished those vulnerabilities that could cause harm to assets and rated them on a hierarchical scale of impact

• Delivered two documents that outlined baseline results as well as network vulnerabilities and deficiencies

RESULT

• DSA provided NCMEC with the information needed to ensure that its network securely meets organizational objectives.

• DSA established the groundwork for information policies to ensure corporate compliance with the secure use of infrastructure.

• Allows NCMEC to meet mission needs to communicate securely with the public and support law enforcement while keeping out those who would like to harm NCMEC’s efforts.

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