Protecting patient information and ensuring quality care
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- Europe
Country
- United Kingdom
Product
- Cognito® platform from Vectra®
Tech Stack
- AI-powered network detection
- Cloud services
- Data center workloads
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- System Integration
- Testing & Certification
About The Customer
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is a healthcare provider for over 140,000 people in Bolton and the surrounding area northwest of Manchester. It provides services at community health centers and clinics, district nursing and intermediate care, as well as services at the Royal Bolton Hospital, which is a hub for women’s and children’s services in the greater Manchester area. The organization is undergoing digital transformation to deliver high-quality care while controlling costs. However, the convenience and efficiency of digital healthcare have brought about the challenge of protecting patient information across a growing number of mobile devices, medical IoT devices, data center workloads, and cloud services.
The Challenge
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, a healthcare provider for over 140,000 people in Bolton and the surrounding area northwest of Manchester, was facing a growing challenge of protecting patient information across a growing number of mobile devices, medical internet-of-things (IoT) devices, data center workloads and cloud services. Healthcare providers have a treasure trove of patient, financial and clinical research data, making healthcare a top target for data theft. Criminals also target healthcare providers for extortion with ransomware, knowing that hospital systems must operate around the clock. Bolton NHS is just down the road from ground zero of the 2017 WannaCry outbreak in the U.K. The ransomware crisis, which affected organizations around the world, sparked many conversations at Bolton NHS. “We had proven security, but we still reassessed our weaknesses and gaps,” says Walmsley.
The Solution
Bolton NHS uses the Cognito® platform from Vectra® as the cornerstone of security monitoring. An AI-powered network detection and response platform, Cognito enables the security operations team to detect and stop hidden attackers in real time – from its data center and cloud workloads to its user and medical IoT devices. Cognito exposes hidden attackers by collecting, analyzing and storing network metadata, relevant logs and cloud events. Always-learning behavioral models enable Cognito to detect attackers in real time so the security operations team can respond quickly and decisively – and have a logical starting point for investigations. Cognito’s ease of use delivered immediate value. Cognito automatically triages, scores and correlates threats to compromised hosts, and maps attack behaviors across hosts so the security operations team can see the narrative of developing attacks. Threats are prioritized on an intuitive user interface.
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