Fatbeam donates $3.2 million in broadband infrastructure to the University of Idaho

Greg Green pointed to the pings on a large computer display within a classroom at the University of Idaho’s Research Park in Post Falls. A secure network housed at the research park was under cyber attack from international computer hackers.

“That’s a Chinese IP address,” said Green, the President of Fatbeam, a Coeur d’Alene-based company that provides broadband access services to businesses, healthcare, education and government customers throughout the Western United States. “They’re trying to hack the network.”

University of Idaho President Chuck Staben and other school officials watched in amazement as the research park network’s security protocols stopped the foreign hackers cold.

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The irony of the Chinese hackers’ efforts is that they were trying to infiltrate the university’s Research Park, which is home to the school’s Cybersecurity Training and Operations Center. The new center has already trained about 150 people, mostly information and technical professionals, to be able to stop cyber threats.

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