Case Study: BayCare Health System increases visibility and protects medical IoT devices with Palo Alto Networks IoT Security

BayCare Health System discovers thousands of devices in hours with Palo Alto Networks IoT Security

BayCare Health System, a major not-for-profit healthcare provider in Florida, needed to secure thousands of unsecured Internet of Things and Internet of Medical Things (IoT/IoMT) devices running on legacy, unpatchable systems. Their challenge was to gain visibility and protect this vulnerable infrastructure from cyberattacks without disrupting patient care. They turned to Palo Alto Networks and its IoT Security platform to address this industry-wide problem.

The solution from Palo Alto Networks, an agentless and passive IoT Security platform, was implemented across all 15 BayCare hospitals in just three weeks. Immediately, it discovered thousands of unknown devices and enabled constant monitoring of over 33,000 medical and IoT items. The results included dramatically increased visibility into device behavior, targeted alerts on critical threats, and a fundamentally stronger security posture, allowing BayCare's team to respond quickly to potential risks.

BayCare Health System