Case Study: Wood County Hospital achieves rapid ransomware detection and reduced alert fatigue with ExtraHop

Wood County Hospital Gets Proactive on Security Threats

Wood County Hospital, a community health system in Ohio serving a main hospital, off‑site offices and eight clinics with 700+ staff, faced escalating cyberthreats. Although they had IDS/IPS, firewalls and a SIEM, alert fatigue and limited visibility into internal network activity left a critical gap—particularly against fast‑moving threats like ransomware.

By deploying ExtraHop real‑time network traffic analytics, the hospital gained immediate, out‑of‑the‑box visibility and machine‑learning driven alerts that flagged an unauthorized UPnP infection and a CryptFlle2 ransomware incident. The team quickly quarantined the infected host, neutralizing the attack before it spread, reduced alert noise, and achieved faster detection and remediation than their MSSP—delivering greater value at less than half the cost of the competing solution.

Wood County Hospital

Joanne White

Chief Information Officer