Case Study: Saint Francis Healthcare System achieves near-real-time ransomware protection and faster endpoint management with Bitdefender GravityZone

Saint Francis Healthcare stays safe from cyberattacks

Saint Francis Healthcare System, a 308‑bed regional tertiary care center, needed uninterrupted access to patient records but was hampered by ineffective endpoint protection: Trend Micro falsely blocked critical applications and caused scan storms on virtual desktops, and Malwarebytes failed to stop ransomware like CryptoLocker, leaving thousands of endpoints exposed. After evaluating Cisco, Carbon Black, Sophos and Bitdefender, Saint Francis selected Bitdefender’s GravityZone Enterprise Security Suite to consolidate and strengthen endpoint security.

Bitdefender deployed GravityZone on‑premises across 3,000 users—protecting physical PCs, VMware and Citrix virtual desktops, and servers—and secured EMR and business applications. Since implementation Bitdefender detects and blocks threats in near real time (44 viruses caught in one month), stopped WannaCry and Petya, reduced exclusion‑policy troubleshooting from ~60 minutes to 5 minutes, cut weekly security administration from 2.5 hours to 15 minutes, lowered security trouble calls by at least 10%, halved software licensing costs and saved roughly $90 per week.

Saint Francis Healthcare System

Phillip Yarbro

Network Systems Engineer