Case Study: Verge Health secures PHI on AWS and blocks global threats with Palo Alto Networks

Healthcare Risk Management Provider Secures Its SaaS Environment on AWS with Palo Alto Networks

Verge Health, founded in 2001, is a healthcare governance, risk, and compliance SaaS provider serving more than 900 facilities and 500,000 users. Because it handles sensitive protected health information (PHI) on AWS, the company needed a robust, HIPAA-compliant security solution to prevent cyberattacks and ensure continuous availability of its Converge platform.

Verge deployed the Palo Alto Networks VM‑Series virtual next‑generation firewall on AWS with Cloudticity integration for instant high availability, plus Threat Prevention, URL Filtering (PAN‑DB), WildFire and GlobalProtect for endpoint security. The deployment exposed previously unseen threats from foreign states, cut unwanted traffic by 29%, reduced connected sessions by 30%, shortened failover from about 60 seconds to under one second, and strengthened secure access for staff.

Verge Health

James Lawson

Chief Solutions Officer