Case Study: Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust achieves automated, on-demand penetration testing and rapid remediation with Pentera

Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Customer Case Study

Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, an expanding NHS trust with dozens of sites, 8,000 staff and 800 beds, faced a growing and complex network that made annual manual penetration tests inadequate for maintaining a strong cyber posture. To get continuous, adversary‑style visibility and validate security changes, the trust evaluated and adopted Pentera’s automated penetration testing / Automated Security Validation platform.

Pentera was deployed in a short proof‑of‑concept and rolled out to run frequent, on‑demand tests that prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities, validate patches and audit policies. The trust now runs daily pentests and gains immediate remediation guidance — delivering dramatic time and cost savings (Pentera’s 30‑minute run equated to 27 working days of manual testing and replaced the work of “more than 3 manual testers over 9 days at £1,500 per tester per day”) while quickly closing urgent security gaps.

Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Brett Walmsley

Chief Technology Officer