Case Study: East Alabama Medical Center improves security monitoring and prevents outages with EventSentry

East Alabama Medical Center Stays Healthy with EventSentry

East Alabama Medical Center (EAMC) required a robust solution to monitor its IT systems for unauthorized changes and potential security threats. The security administrator needed to be instantly alerted to critical events, such as admin group membership changes, to protect patient healthcare data and ensure system integrity. After testing several products, the hospital chose EventSentry to address these security and operational challenges.

By implementing EventSentry, EAMC gained comprehensive monitoring of over 200 servers for events like disk space warnings, failed logon attempts, and newly created shared folders. EventSentry provided real-time alerts that prevented outages, identified a virus-infected workstation, and stopped a vendor from improperly granting full data access. The solution also automated responses to specific errors, saving staff from after-hours work. The EventSentry implementation resulted in improved security, prevented system downtime, and delivered a significant return on investment for the hospital.

EAMC

Michael Wegner

Security Administrator