Case Study: The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center achieves enhanced patient privacy and HIPAA compliance with Check Point Software

M.D. Anderson Secures Patient Privacy with Check Point

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, a leading comprehensive cancer treatment and research institution in Houston, needed to expand secure Internet-enabled services—telemedicine, remote access to records and mobile healthcare—while protecting patient privacy and meeting HIPAA requirements for roughly 65,000 patients and thousands of staff, students and volunteers. The challenge was to enable broader access across internal organizations without adding management complexity or excessive operational cost.

M.D. Anderson deployed Check Point VPN-1 Pro preloaded on the Nokia IP Security Platform, using SecureXL, SmartMap and appliance-based IPSO to simplify deployment and centralize policy management. The integrated solution delivered faster, more reliable throughput (about three-fold improvement), simplified administration, sub-second failover for high availability, HIPAA compliance and lower total cost of ownership—enabling secure remote services and scalable growth.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Lew Wagner

Chief Information Security Officer and Director of the Information Security Department