Case Study: Vidant Health protects surgeries and patient safety with Forcepoint NGFW

Vidant Health reduces incident response from days to hours with Forcepoint

Vidant Health, a not-for-profit hospital system, faced challenges with inefficient device provisioning and maintaining policy consistency across its firewalls. Most critically, they needed to protect patients from advanced network threats during robotic surgeries. To address this, they turned to Forcepoint and its Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) product.

By implementing Forcepoint NGFW, Vidant created a secure, segmented network for its surgical units. The solution provided high-availability clustering and strong IPS defenses, which minimized technological concerns. The results included a dramatic reduction in IT management time, with outages cut from weeks to days and incident response time reduced from days to hours. This ensured no surgeries were postponed due to network security issues, allowing the hospital to focus on patient safety.

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