Summary: Apollo Group is a publicly traded parent company that owns the University of Phoenix and a number of other higher education subsidiaries. The organization needs to be able to meet rigorous audit and compliance requirements and aimed to take its security to the next level by building a more mature security operations center. Business Challenge: With 300 physical location in six countries, 500,000 students, 50,000 faculty and 22,000 employees, Apollo Group has a formidable challenge in securing all its systems data and endpoints. Solution: ArcSight ESM enables Apollo Group to increase its visibility and intelligence into its network and protect against zero day cyberthreats. With ArcSight ESM, Apollo Group has been able to create unique use cases to identify events specific to its environment - for example, preventing student misuse of Internet resources and protecting against data leakage via mobile media. Benefits: The comprehensive correlation and reporting capabilities within ArcSight ESM enable Apollo Group to effectively process billions of security events and maintain compliance with SOX and PCI regulations. "We are extremely pleased to have ArcSight ESM as the basis for our security foundation. Its versatility and raw ability to combat cyberthreats and risk make it an excellent choice," says Scott Carlson, Principal Engineer, Apollo Group Data Center Architecture.