Case Study: Large Hospital Network achieves IoT device security and reduced costs with NETSCOUT nGenius Packet Flow Switches

Hospital Helps Secure IoT Devices With Network Packet Visibility

A large regional hospital network—more than a dozen hospitals and 100 medical facilities caring for hundreds of thousands of patients annually—saw exponential growth in IoT devices and a surge in targeted cyber threats, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those threats endangered critical clinical and networking services and exposed gaps in the IT team's ability to share packet-level data between NetOps and SecOps tools for timely detection and response.

The hospital deployed NETSCOUT nGenius Packet Flow Switches (PFOS) alongside InfiniStreamNG appliances, nGeniusONE service assurance, and Visibility-as-a-Service to mirror and route packet traffic to both the Armis agentless IoT security platform and NETSCOUT analytics. The solution delivered the right packet data to each tool, reduced IoT risk, improved device availability for patient care, and lowered cost and complexity through vendor consolidation and optimized investments.