Case Study: Premier Management Company secures healthcare data and ensures compliance with F5 Networks' cloud‑based WAF

Premier Management Company Secures Healthcare Data with F5 Cloud-Based WAF

Premier Management Company, which operates several physician‑led ACOs, needed to protect large volumes of confidential healthcare data in its Microsoft Azure–hosted applications while meeting strict regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA), keeping pace with rapid growth, and overcoming limited internal experience with F5 technology. To address these challenges they evaluated and chose F5 Networks’ cloud offering—the F5 Web Application Firewall for Microsoft Azure Security Center—as their web application firewall solution.

F5 Networks deployed the cloud‑based WAF to provide layer‑7 protection against OWASP Top 10 threats, layer‑7 DDoS, web injections and more, delivering a reported 99.89% effectiveness in blocking attacks. The F5 solution enabled regulatory compliance, easy scaling as PMC grows, customization via iRules, and hands‑on vendor support that sped deployment and resolved Azure issues—securing PMC’s data and giving the team confidence to expand.

Premier Management Company

Sohail Mohammed

CIO