Nonprofit
Cybersecurity Defense & Intelligence Center (CDIC)
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Cybersecurity Nonprofit (501c3)
Remote access
VPN replacement
Cybersecurity Defense & Intelligence Center () is a non-profit that provides training in cyber forensics, security, response, and intelligence through its CDIC Academy. CDIC has a team of over 125 members globally and require secure remote access to their internal networks and applications. The members are comprised of cybersecurity and intelligence professionals from entry-level to veteran leaders.
As a cybersecurity nonprofit with a distributed team, CDIC requires the most secure remote access to their company networks and applications that is cost-efficient, specifically to Jira, their SIEM, and their servers.
To accomplish this, CDIC started with ZeroTier as a VPN. However, VPNs have many known vulnerabilities and are not designed to support a large and growing distributed workforce.
CDIC's challenges included:
The understanding that VPNs have widely known vulnerabilities, and desired a Zero Trust alternative
VPNs do not allow for segmented access
Performance speeds were slow, especially for teams in particular geographies
VPNs are censored for teams in certain geographies
Adding and removing teammates securely was complicated and needed someone with network engineering expertise to configure
Upgrading to enterprise-grade Zero Trust solutions is expensive and full of extra, unneeded features
CDIC partnered with NVIS AI to provide best-in-class alternative to VPNs they need, including:
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA): Enabled by NVIS AI's Software Defined Perimeter (SDP), nodes are peer-to-peer and encrypted at Layer 2, eliminating the public attack surface
Fast performance: Nodes are connected peer-to-peer in any geography
Connect anywhere: As an SDP, NVIS AI is unaffected by VPN blockers
Easy management: With AI Provisioning, even entry-level teammates are able to administer the network in minutes without needing much skill or risking misconfiguration
Economical pricing: NVIS AI provides no-frills best-in-class secure remote access that can be setup without any changes to the network or workflows
