Case Study
Healthcare: Multi-Campus Hospital System
The IT department of a multi-campus healthcare system deployed the B100 series of the CyberSafety CC/B1 Platform™ — the model built for heavy networking — to bring holistic, automated security to one of the most complex environments in any industry.
Challenge
Healthcare systems are particularly vulnerable to cyber attack because of the sheer volume of information they hold — patient records carry high monetary and intelligence value, and healthcare organizations are frequent targets of phishing, ransomware, and malware. Pair that with the complexity of a hospital environment — legacy and unsupported systems, constrained resources, campus-wide Wi-Fi, HIPAA compliance obligations — and security budgets that are thin relative to the value of the data, and the result is a challenging environment to defend.
Our client, the IT department of a multi-campus hospital system, was uneasy about the lack of a holistic network security posture: constant network infiltration attempts, the standing threat of ransomware, and point tools that didn’t add up to coverage.
Approach
CloudCover deployed the B100 series of the CyberSafety CC/B1 Platform™ in a high-availability configuration — a variation of the platform designed for heavy, multi-campus network traffic. The deployment consolidated the hospital system’s core defenses in one inline platform:
- Firewall with automated intrusion detection and automatic IP blocking
- Antivirus and antispam filtering
- Web content filtering
- High-availability pairing to avoid single points of failure
- Connectivity across the system’s campuses and its many partner locations
Detection events drive automated blocking of malicious traffic, with whitelisting, timed auto-unblock, and a full event log — so a lean healthcare IT team can supervise security rather than staff it around the clock.
Outcome
Across a five-year engagement, the platform automatically detected and blocked a large daily volume of attacks — including previously unseen attacks with no matching signature — originating from sources around the world.
The hospital system reported no known compromises of its systems and no security-related network downtime during the engagement, while maintaining high-speed connectivity for users and partner locations across its campuses.