How a Hospital IT Team Gets “More Sleep and More Smiles” Thanks to Advanced Inline CASB
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Netskope
- CASB Inline
- Adv. DLP (Exact Data Match)
- Real-Time Protection for SaaS
Tech Stack
- Cloud Applications
- SaaS apps
- Office 365
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Database Security
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Human Resources
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
- Remote Collaboration
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
About The Customer
The customer is an internationally-recognized hospital renowned for its groundbreaking research and other specialties. The hospital is located in the United States of America. The hospital had to shift from 200 to 20,000 remote employees in a very short span during the COVID-19 pandemic. The hospital's IT team was experiencing daily escalations over concerns of unauthorized data moving around using insecure apps. Its then-current DLP solution was cross-checking against HIPAA dictionaries but at best only achieving 70% accuracy, meaning false positives and unnecessary escalation nearly 30% of the time.
The Challenge
The hospital faced two significant challenges related to its IT environment and use of cloud applications. The first was to prevent any authorized exfiltration of patient data without causing unnecessary friction, false positives, or security alerts that would slow down its fast-moving staff’s ability to collaborate. The second challenge was to prevent malware from entering the hospital network via a constellation of SaaS apps, both managed and unmanaged, both authorized and unauthorized. Making its Office 365 implementation secure was a big job already, further compounded by how many hospital team members were linking it to various other applications, including file transfer services such as Dropbox.
The Solution
The hospital implemented Netskope to enhance data security, dramatically overhaul its DLP effectiveness to reach zero false positives, better equip its remote workforce, and achieve the all-too-rare balance of making things easy and secure. In-line CASB quickly became a primary need for improving data protection and reducing false positives—specifically a level of visibility and control for thousands of apps (managed and unmanaged), including users, file names, and activity. CASB Inline helped the hospital and its now-heavilydistributed staff of caregivers, researchers, and other stakeholders confidently manage and prevent the unintentional or unapproved movement of sensitive data between cloud app instances, with full context of app risk, user risk, and access risk.
Operational Impact
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